- Keep healthy
- 11 if you do little or no exercise at all
- Lose weight
- Moderately active - exercising for 30 minutes about 3-4 times a week
So, by reducing our daily calorie intake by 500 calories per day we will lose 1lb of fat per week, safely and healthily. By losing the fat slowly, our bodies will adapt slowly, thus ensuring that it is easier to keep the weight off in the longer term. So, if we take our 200lb man as our example, he will need to reduce his daily calorie intake by 500 calories. If you are an outdoor worker and hardly do any sitting, you could be burning even in excess of 3,000 calories. You can get the exact number of calories that you burn by purchasing a calorie meter, an apparatus that will look like a wrist watch. Just wear it for a whole day and it will conveniently tell you how many calories you have burned.
A "calorie" is a unit of energy stored in a particular food. Foods with more energy stored in them are higher in calories than are foods with less energy. For dieters the basic rule to losing weight is that your body must burn more calories (energy) in a period of time than you put in it by eating.
The number goes up for people who weigh more, and down for those that weigh less.
A lot of people really have no idea what to do when it comes to dieting. This is pretty evident, when you consider just how many different diet plans are on the market today. The average person consumes around 2,000 calories in order to maintain their weight. The number goes up for people who weigh more, and down for those that weigh less. Also, those who live more active lifestyles need to consume more calories to maintain their weight.
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