how do calories work?
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go to this link and you'll learn all about calories.  understanding how they work also provides a good knowledge on common sense ways to burn them.\n\nhttp://home.howstuffworks.com/calorie.htm
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The calories needed to lose weight varies from person to person. It is affected by your current weight and your level of activity.  Many people, including me,  would gain weight on 3000 calories a day!  The average person needs 2000-2500 calories to maintain their current weight.  Use this site to see how many calories you need daily to stay the weight that you are.  http://www.inch-aweigh.com/dcn.php\n\nThen, if you want to lose, you must take in at least 300 calories less per day.\n\nMost doctors recommend a calorie intake of 1200 to 1500 calories a day for those that want to lose weight.  I have a wonderful diet that is easy to use and follow (no measuring and no counting calories involved).  If you would like it, please email and I will send it to you.  It is based on nutrisystem and jenny craig but without the expense...you do it all on your own.  It includes all the basic food groups and so is also very healthy.  It is based on 1250 calories.  I have already shared it with a few others here at yahoo answers.
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Losing weight is a simple equation: if you burn more calories than you eat, the weight will come off. Start off by estimating how many calories you burn each day using the calorie calculator (http://www.straighthealth.com/pages/tools/caloriecalclb.html). This will give you an idea of how many calories to eat. Healthy weight loss is 1-2 pounds per week. To lose 1 pound per week you need to create a calorie deficit (bur more than you eat) of 500 calories per day. To lose 2 pounds a week, you have to double the deficit to 1000 calories per day. You can achieve this by eating less, exercising more or a combination of both. For more information on diet, weight loss and exercise, visit http://straighthealth.com
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In general, you have to have a calorie deficit of 3500 calories to lose a \npound of weight.  This deficit can be produced by eating fewer calories, by \nusing more calories (being more active), or a combination of the two.  \nCertainly, the easiest way to do this is by eating about 250 calories less \na day and exercising about 250 calories more a day to lose about 1 pound a \nweek.  Given that it takes about 3500 calories to lose a pound of weight \nand that the average calorie need for most of us is about 2000 calories a \nday, it stands to reason that losing more than a couple of pounds a week is \nmathematically impossible.
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your body naturally burns between 1500=2000 calories a day without exercise. eat less than that or burn off the extra cals with exercise.
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i have this new program i am working on.\nit involves - eating healthy and exercising.\nin fact, i am working on a breakthrough - i have found if you burn more calories than you take in - you lose weight.
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That's alot to eat for anyone....it takes 3500 calories to gain a pound. Now you would have to take the amount of calories you have burnt all day and subtract it from the 10,000...whatever is left over is going to go towards gaining.....
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A calorie is the ammount of energy needed to raise the temp. of one ml of water one degree C.  A Calorie is 1000 times that, or the energy needed to raise one L. of water one degree C.
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It is impossible to know what calories are in what foods as the foods use different ingredients so it will vary from place to place.\n\nYou can 'guess' by getting the list of ingredients and then listing how many calories they have, but its probably not accurate.\n\nSome restaurants have calorie list of their foods by request.
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Yes they do. All calories that are unused or not "burned" will be stored as fat. The body automatically stores these unused calories for later use.
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It takes 3,500 calories to equal one pound of body weight.  Generally, dieters dump an average of 1,000 calories per day in an effort to lose 2 pounds of body fat per week.  You should never go below 1,200 calories per day without your doctor's approval. If you are in need of losing a lot of weight, you may require more calories, so you'll definitely need to check in with your doctor before proceeding on any diet plan.
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It depends on how active you are, but I believe that if you eat less than 1200 calories a day then your body goes into starvation mode, and your metabolism slows down.
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go to sparkpeople.com \nit has food guidelines, plus weight loss tracker, you can even enter all the foods you eat and it will count the calories. Also some excercise tips and will give you a tailored exercise plan. All free too...good luck
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A calorie is a unit of energy, it's a way to measure it.  Food is converted to energy when it is digested.  Then stored as fat if you dont use it. Whichever has more calories marshmellow or walnut, is the one with more energy
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It's simple - take in less calories than you burn. Diets don't work.
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exercise more.  the best way to lose calories is to burn them off.
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Losing weight is very simple.  You burn off more than you take in.  To that end, you have to watch what you eat and be aware of the nutritional value of pretty much everything you eat.  Also, you have to know what activities burn what amount of calories to help you lose weight...everything from just walking around to a good, hard workout.  Example: if you watch what you eat and eat healthy things but don't see yourself losing weight, you probably aren't exercising enough, or perhaps not doing the right kinds of exercising.  Again, you have to burn off more than you take in.