If your maintain calorie is lets say 3008 do u have to eat 3008?
The number of calories needed per day to maintain your weight will do just that. If you eat more or less than that number, you will gain or lose weight. The rate you gain or lose weight is dependent upon how MUCH more or less you are eating. One pound = 3500 calories. One week = 7 days. So, if every day you eat 500 calories less than the amount you need to maintain your weight, you will lose one pound (3500 calories) in 7 days (-500 calories x 7 days = -3500 calories, or loss of one pound) If you wanted to lose 2 pounds in one week, you would simply eat 1000 less calories each day than needed to maintain your weight, and so on. Hope this helped! For more info: http://health.howstuffworks.com/diet9.ht...
1000 calories over maintenance?!?
You might gain a little, but it won't be noticeable. Weight gain usually comes from a long term caloric surplus. 1 day of 1000 calories at the worst will add 1/3 lbs of fat IF that.
Today I ate 7000 calories over my maintenance number, will I gain two pounds?
probably
If I go from eating 500 calories to eating 1200 will I gain weight?
I want to be as compassionate as possible in this answer, because I’m aware that a person interested in the question as stated may have a problem with their relationship with food and body image. At 1200 calories, you will starve to death more slowly than at 500. A tiny adult female would squeak by at 1500–1700 Cal, with little to spare for walking around. A moderately sized (5′4 and 150lb) female with a typical, relatively sedentary lifestyle would maintain at about 2200 - 2400. If that seems like a huge number, please consider talking to a doctor about your feelings and lifestyle.
How many calories should i eat for a diet?
280 x 15 = 4,200 calories /day to maintain - 500 calories = 3,700 calories to lose 1 lb per week. It takes 3500 calories to add 1 pound of bodyweight. If you ate 500 calories above your maintenance calories per day for 1 week, you could gain 1 lb. Vice-versa for losing weight; reduce calories by 500 below your maintenance level to lose 1 lb per week