How many calories should I eat a day for weight loss?
You can lose fat by being on a caloric deficit, meaning you expend more calories than you consume. Here’s how to do that:First of all, you have to know your BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate). This is the total number of calories your body needs to perform basic bodily functions such as breathing, digesting food, or thinking.Then you have to know your TDEE (Total Daily Energy Expenditure). This is the total number of calories you use for your current daily activities like walking to work or cleaning the house.Once you know your BMR and TDEE, you can boost your fat loss efforts by setting a lower daily calorie limit and making a plan for increasing your physical activity.For example:Your BMR is 1,700 calories.Your TDEE is 2,600 calories.A healthy way to lower calories without putting too much pressure on yourself is to subtract 500 calories from your TDEE. This ensures that you don’t starve and lack energy. The important thing is for you to be able to sustain your program.So your daily calories for fat loss is 2,100 calories.There are many online calorie calculators you can use to compute for these. There are formulas but I personally think that manually calculating this isn’t very accurate.Make sure that you eat a balance of whole foods. Healthy carbs, protein, and healthy fat—these are called macros. I won’t go into detail with this since we’re only talking about calories.Now that you’ve got that down pat, it’s time to add in exercise to increase your caloric expenditure even more. It’s important to combine cardio with weight training. Cardio helps burn fat stores and weight training helps you build muscles.Since our bodies adapt to change, re-calculate you BMR, TDEE and calories needed for fat loss every 2–4 weeks or when you notice that you’re not losing weight anymore. This way you’ll continuously make progress.Then again, calori counting doesn’t work for some people. Here’s an interesting read about the topic: Why You Should Stop Counting Calories?
1500 Calorie-a-day diet for weight loss?
That's funny, I've just started the same diet too. I'm keeping track of my calories on thedailyplate.com and making sure I don't go over 1500. I do a little exercise, mainly running, not a lot because I'm too busy with work and school. But I've been doing it for about a week now and the first few days I didn't see any change but the last 5 days I have lost a pound a day. I can't believe it. I didn't realize how many calories I was eating before. I was going way over the recommended 2000 a day for average women. I started at 174, now a week later I'm 169. I want to get down to 110 lbs. (I'm 5'4''). So I'll see how long it takes. The depo-provera shot is what messed me up. I gained so much weight on it and it has just never come off and that was 4 years ago. We should keep in touch. Maybe we can motivate eachother.
Weight loss eating only 100 calories a day ?
I need a real answer NO lectures ! Okay so I'm eating less than 100 calories a day and its usually a fruit(apple) and water. I wanted to know how much weight I will lose if I do this for a month. I KNOW ALL of the health risks, even death ! I do NOT care . I just want go know how much weight I'll lose. I'm 16 years old, 5'3" and weigh 155. Also don't say I'm going to gain weight cause how the heck am I supposed to gain weight when I'm not eating ?? It's just common sense. I know you're all going to say when I reach my goal I could gain it all back but I know I won't . Anyone REALLY know how much weight I'll lose ??? Thanks for your replies ! :)
How much weight would you lose in a week by eating 600 calories per day?
You can live on zero calories a day if you have enough fat to burn, but let’s be a bit more realistic in our goals, hm?You obviously want to lose weight desperately to go to 600 calories a day. I’m guessing that means you’ve tried other, less severe alternatives already and it hasn’t worked.(Before I continue, let me preface this with: if you are not an adult - if you are younger than 18 years of age - though preferably 20 - you should absolutely not do this. Your body is not finished developing!)Think of a time when you really, really had to pee. Would peeing *just a little* make you feel better and keep you going? No. You needed to hold it until you could get rid of it all!Think of your 600 calories as trying to pee ‘just a little’ to keep your bladder from exploding. Sometimes all or nothing really is better.Rather than go 600 calories a day, try intermittent fasting. It’s where you eat full, normal, healthy meals with lots of fibers and healthy fats! Yes, avocado, olive oil, whole milk - fat is a wonder that we have demonized for way too long.Eat until you are full and satisfied. Then don’t eat again for a prescribed amount of time. I have been doing 16 hours between meals for a while now, but recently I’ve started doing longer, multi-day fasts. If you work yourself into it slowly it’s much, much easier!Once your pre-determined time of not-eating is up, eat again, but eat whole, healthy meals and be full and satisfied.Right now I am having coffee with some whole cream in the morning, and tea or water throughout the day. I follow this for about 4 days, then eat regularly on the weekends with my family since that is when we usually get together for things.If you work yourself into it slowly, let your body adjust, and eat well when you do eat, this is a great and sustainable way to lose weight. You won’t be plagued by hunger, you can be as flexible as you need to if a meal comes up you weren’t expecting but don’t want to turn down (friend shows up unexpectedly, say) and it’s easier than trying to eat ‘just a little’.Again, if you are not an adult, this does NOT apply, non-adult bodies are not ready for fasting. Also, if you have medical conditions, talk to your doctor first. Or, really, talk to your doctor first anyway.
Am I eating enough calories for weight loss?
Yeah you will lose weight it also depends on what you eat. Even if you stick to the calorie range you don't want to be eating chips, snacks, drinking soda, all that stuff is just horrible for weight loss. Maybe try eating less on the days you don't workout so much. I usually go 1000-1200 calories a day 5-6 meals i stay at the gym for about 4 hours though so i over-do it, and i usually lose 5 pounds a week. But like I said your calorie plan sounds good don't eat at night that's what killed me for the first couple days of trying to lose weight. Good luck :).
500 calorie diet - how much weight will I lose?
Please don't tell me not to do it etc. I am just looking for answers from people who have actually done this. I'm 5'2 and weigh 158 lbs I want to lose 50 lbs. How much weight did you lose when you were on this diet?
How much weight would I lose a week eating 300 calories a day?
You need a minimum of 500 calories a day or else your body will be stuck in starvation mode. I myself have done this for six months and lost a 100 lbs, I was very happy with the weight loss but every other aspect in my life suffered everyone told me I looked sick, I was lifeless, depressed, and often fainted at work and school. I was a very outgoing person until I did this and then I feel I went into a state of psychosis. But if your not worried about the aftermath then heres how I looked at it, 3000 calories is roughly one pound of fat. I googled a daily calorie burner to see how much calories I used a day and it said I burned around 3000, on top of all that I decided to work out for at least an hour a day and I ran 5 miles every other night and ran 3 on the easy nights. The weight came off very fast I was losing 4 to 10 lbs a week. But heres the down side, when I started eating normal my body was still in starvation mode so any fats or sugars I ate went straight back to body weight and I gained 40 lbs in a month eating way less then i had before so I starved myself again this time armed with the knowledge of only eating vegetables for two weeks straight just to get my metabolism running normal. Two years later I am down 90lbs from my original weight I eat healthy and with work I am easily walking fourteen miles a day( I used a step counter) I jog to work often and occasionally pass on sweets. My brain I feel is still recovering from the harm I have done but I am now happy and have lots of energy. SO say you want to lose 30lbs I dont know how much u want to lose but its an example, 30lbs= roughly 90,000 calories, If you burn 2500 calories a day then that is dept. of 1000 after only taking in 500, 1000 calories times 90 days = 90,000 calories of 30lbs of fat. I hope this helps, good luck on your weight loss goals!!!
Can eating too little calories stop weight loss?
Im not really losing weight with netting 700-800 calories a day, eating very healthy, and exercising. People say my body is in starvation mode but im not starving...i just eat very healthy so its all low calorie. If i eat more will i lose more weight?