Daily calorie intake to lose weight?
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An average woman needs about 1800-2000 calories per day to maintain her weight. To lose an average of a pound per week, consume about 500 less calories per day than you are now.\nKeep a food journal to track current food consumption and see where you can trim down. Read food labels and always choose the lighter version. Every calorie counts!
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This website in my sources contains daily recommended calorie intake and a basic healthy diet plan for you or anybody else looking to lose weight to follow.\n\nAlso do regular exercises - running, skipping, crunches, sit-ups, press ups etc or even better - pick a sport that you are good at and lose that weight and make new friends to keep up your confidence and self esteem!\n\nHope this helps,\n\nGood luck.
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recommending 800-1000 cals a day, could potentially  be very dangerous for some people so, perhaps you shouldn't recommend it?\nhowever, cutting down on your sugar and cals ( to no less than 1400 cals) and increasing your excercise levels is a great idea. well done!
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The easiest way to determine how many calories you can eat and lose weight is by figuiring out how many calories you burn a day.  As long as you burn more than you eat, you'll lose weight.
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I aim for 1900 calories a day or less.  I am  working closely with a diet/fitness professional.  I write down what I eat in a food journal along with the calorie value of everything and I meet with my girl once a week to discuss what I ate and how I felt and all that.  She encourages me to eat several times throughout the day -every 2 or 3 hours in fact.  I do plan ahead, but allow for some spontenaity, I also eat lots of fresh fruit and vegetables.   When I eat at a friends house or a restaurant I write down what I ate when I get home and use this website to estimate the calorie value of what it was;\nhttp://www.calorieking.com/foods/\nAt first, I just wrote what I ate because I had no idea what the calorie value of anything was.  After 2 1/2 months of doing it, I have a much better idea of what the calorie count of different foods are and can plan better throughout the day.  I have lost 10 pounds since I started.  \nI was against the idea of counting calories at first, but agreed because what I was doing wasn't working.  For me, the most helpful thing has been the support  I recieve from my girl.  She has really helped me to stay focused.  Calories are a number, like your weight or your size that are only a part of the whole picture of health.  When I get frustrated at my slow progress she reminds me of how great I feel and the long term benefits I am giving myself by eating well and exercising and that this is for life-I am not on a diet to be a size 9 by the weekend.
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The key is your calorie intake. Take your weight and multiply it by (how much activity you do 10 for inactive 11 for intermediate 12 very active) this is how many calories you should take a day. To lose weight, subtract 500 daily calories or to gain weight add 500. Take that daily calorie intake and divide it in to 5 or 6 meals a day. Food should consist of complex carbohydrates (potatoes, whole grains, and fibrous greens), protein (lean meat, nuts, and beans) and fat (not saturated fat). A good rule of thumb is 60% carbohydrates 25% protean and 15% fat. The point to this is to keep your digestive system running all the time and speed up your metabolism and lose weight without doing any thing. Don’t eat 2 hrs before bedtime. Also no carbohydrates 4 hrs before bed and do not skip breakfast!! Your body will think it is starving
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It takes a calorie defecit of 3,500 calories to lose one pound of fat.  Your body needs 2,000 calories a day (approximately) to maintain your current weight.  So if you scaled back calories, lets say to 1,500 a day, in one week you would lose exactly one pound.  It's not easy, it's not quick, but it is guaranteed to work time and time again.  There are no shortcuts, although excercise will help you to lose weight by burning off additional calories, helping you reach your 3,500 defecit quicker.
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It takes 3,600 cals to lose a pound.....\n\nBy the way you should eat at least 1.200 cals a day.......
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For a more precise number, you can go to menshealth.com. They can compute your daily caloric needs for maintaining your weight or for losing it, based on your activity level and age, if i remember correctly.
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id say between 1000-1500 calories. Becuase in order to lose weight, u need to consume less than u burn and people usally burn around 1500-2000 calories a day, and sleeping is 60 calories an hour (thats how much u lose)
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Two thousand calories is what the average adult should consume every day. You can eat even more calories than you did today and you'll still be fine.
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It's different for everyone'\n\ntry www.fitday.com  it will help you show how many you need to eat and burn everyday
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You use almost exactly 15 calories per pound per day.  This is a really good estimate for you.\n\nIf you're very very active, maybe almost 20.\n\nIf you're a complete, and I mean complete, couch potato, about 10.
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Take in 1200-1500 calories per day.  Exercise 30 min. per day.  If you are a male, then you will need more calories though.
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Are you looking to lose weight? If so, I would highly advise against it. If you are that little and still wanting to lose weight, it sounds like you may have an eating disorder. Now at your current weight and activity level, I would say you could easily consume 2500 calories a day. You should consume at least 2000 to be healthy since you are not looking to lose weight (hopefully) and are very active. To lose much more weight and you put your health and life at risk.
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The rule in weight loss is that in order to lose a pound of fat per week, you must eliminate 3,500 calories from your weekly intake-output. The best strategy to do this is to reduce your caloric intake by 250 calories a day, and exercise off 250 calories a day (500 multiplied by seven days in a week results in 3,500 burned off per week).\n\nThis is correct information as far as I know I listed the Mayo Clinic weblink with the answer. The first paragraph under step 5 says basically the same thing if you wanted a reference.
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to know what you should weight:\nfor women, at 5 feet tall start at 100 pounds, then for every inch add five pounds (then add ten pounds if you have a large frame, let it stay the same if you have a medium frame, and subtract ten if you have a small frame)\nfor men, do the same except they should start at 110 at five feet tall, and then add six pounds for every inch.\n\n--- to find out how many calories you can take to stay at your current weight, multiply your current weight times fifteen and that'show many calories you can eat per day to stay at that weight. to lose weight, subtract five hundred calories per day to lose one pound a week, or subtract seven hundred and fifty calories to lose 1 and a half pounds a week, and one thousand calories to loose two pounds a week. good luck