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Kay
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 Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 9:59 pm Post subject: Calories to maintain weight/ weight loss?? |
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| I have been looking online for the number of calories that I need to consume to maintain weight and lose weight and I have gotten SOOOO many different answers ranging from 1400-1900 to LOSE weight. Does anyone have some help in this department?I am wondering what the calories would be for me to maintain the weight of 150lbs I am 5'7" and 19 years old. There were so many variations on the amount of calories it would take to maintain. |
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crazygirl158
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| Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 10:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Find the number of calories you need to get to mantain your weight. That doesn't change much between different sites. And this part i saw in like ten sites, you should subtract 500 calories from it to lose 1 pound per week. So if you subtract 250 cals then you would lose1/2 pounds per week. |
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Tonks
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| Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 10:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Well, I'm not sure if this will help, but a pound is approximately 3000 calories. So to lose a pound, you have to burn 3,000 more calories than you consume. To gain a pound, you have to consume 3,000 more calories than you burn.hopefully that helped. |
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pandamoniumusa
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| Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 10:38 pm Post subject: |
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| go to this site http://health.discovery.com/tools/calculators/basal/basal.html and it will tell you how many calories your body regularly burns in a day . thats the amount of calories you should eat 2 maintain your current body weight. a pound of fat = 3,500 calories and a healthy amount of weight to lose is 2lbs per week so it breaks down like so 3,500 calories x 2 = 7.000 calories that you need to burn to lose 2 lbs per week. that means that you need to burn 1,000 extra calories in a day. this is a good site to help you find fun ways to burn more calories. http://www.health.com/health/article/0,23414,1622624,00.html hope this helps =) |
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