2/25/2013

How many calories should i eat to lose weight

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How Many Calories Should I Eat Per Day To Lose Weight & Lose Fat?

To answer this question, you should know that losing weight depends basically on burning calories, and the golden rule for weight loss is "Your calories intake must be less than your calories consumed". This force your body to burn the stored fats.
So we have two ways to lose weight:
The first is how many calories should i eat to lose weight.
The second is how many calories should i burn to lose weight.
In this article we will discus how many calories one has to eat to lose weight. 
                                 
Calories Required To Lose Weight calculator
The Calorie calculator allows you to calculate how many calories you should eat a day in order to lose a certain amount of weight by a certain date.
For example: If you are 86kg (189.6Ibs) start of November and would like to be 78kg (172Ibs) by Christmas, you would specify that you want to lose 8 kilograms (17.6Ibs) in 2 months. This is how it differs to other calorie calculators which only allow you to calculate the amount of calories daily for a specific weight.
The calorie calculator is very useful for weight management as it displays how many calories are needed over the specified period of time. It keeps track of your weight loss and calories required. The less you weigh, the fewer calories you will need to take in for weight loss to continue.
You can use the calories calculator here:

http://www.healthyweightforum.org/eng/calculators/calories-required/

How Many Calories Should I Eat Per Day To Lose Weight?

The Ideal Daily Caloric Deficit: 20% below maintenance level per day.
What this means is, whatever your daily calorie maintenance level is, you should be about 20% below it each day. Here’s an example…
  • Let’s say some person (male or female) had a daily calorie maintenance level of 2500 calories. They’d first figure out that 20% of 2500 is 500 (2500 x 0.20 = 500). This means they should create a caloric deficit of 500 calories each day. In this example, that would mean eating 2000 calories per day.
So, take the estimated calorie maintenance level you got in the previous step and create your 20% deficit. Did you do it? Good. That’s how many calories you should eat per day to lose weight. Make sure you write it down.
Because this deficit (20% below maintenance) is neither too big nor too small, it will allow you to maximize fat loss, minimize muscle loss, and do it all in a way that is easy for you to manage and sustain both physically and mentally.
That’s pretty much as good as it gets, and that’s precisely why this is the most often recommended caloric deficit for the majority of the population looking to lose weight/lose fat.
Of course, one of the main reasons this deficit is so ideal is that it will cause you to lose weight at the ideal rate of weight loss.