Understanding weight loss? How does it work?!
Question: I'm 17, 5'5", and 146 pounds. My goal weight is to be 110 pounds. I plan on exercising and eating healthy. I don't understand what the best way is to go about losing the weight. If 1 pound = 3500 calories.. how many calories can I eat, and how many calories do I want to burn to lose weight? I eat about 2000 now probably, and plan on cutting down to 1200.. when I work out at the gym I usually burn about 500 calories..is this enough to see weight loss?
Answers: I'm 17, 5'5", and 146 pounds. My goal weight is to be 110 pounds. I plan on exercising and eating healthy. I don't understand what the best way is to go about losing the weight. If 1 pound = 3500 calories.. how many calories can I eat, and how many calories do I want to burn to lose weight? I eat about 2000 now probably, and plan on cutting down to 1200.. when I work out at the gym I usually burn about 500 calories..is this enough to see weight loss?
Losing 1-2 lbs per week is healthy. The thing you really have to understand, as most others have mentioned is that your caloric intake must be LESS than the caloric expenditures...pretty much, you'll lose weight if you burn more calories than you take in.
Something to keep in mind is your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR), which is the number of calories you'd burn if you stayed in bed all day.
If your BMR + 500 (which is the calories you burned in workout) > (greater than) your daily caloric intake, you will lose weight.
Just an FYI...if you keep your daily total fat intake below 40g, it'll help. I'd be a bit worried that dropping from 2000cal to 1200cal so quickly may cause you to feel like your starving, causing you to want to binge. If you cut back your calories throughout the day, say instead of eating 3 meals that are 400 calories, eat 5-6 times per day...it may help keep you feeling satiated.
The BMR Calculator will calculate your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR)
http://www.bmi-calculator.net/bmr-calcul...
"If you've noticed that every year, it becomes harder to eat whatever you want and stay slim, you've also learnt that your BMR decreases as you age. Likewise, depriving yourself of food in hopes of losing weight also decreases your BMR, a foil to your intentions. However, a regular routine of cardiovascular exercise can increase your BMR, improving your health and fitness when your body's ability to burn energy gradually slows down."
I know this is long, but I hope it gives you some of the information you need.
Losing weight is a simple equation: if you burn more calories than you eat, the weight will come off. Start off by estimating how many calories you burn each day using the daily calorie needs calculator http://straighthealth.com/pages/tools/ca... This will give you an idea of how many calories to eat. Healthy weight loss is 1-2 pounds per week. To lose 1 pound per week you need to create a calorie deficit (burn more than you eat) of 500 calories per day. To lose 2 pounds a week, you have to double the deficit to 1000 calories per day. You can achieve this by eating less, exercising more or a combination of both.
Beginners Guide to Dieting - http://straighthealth.com/pages/guides/b...
Ok Ill simplify it all. Burned Calories > Eaten Calories you are going to lose weight. Personal Experience: 110 is extremely low for your height Id try 120-130 , Atkins is unhealthy as in its an unatural way of loosing weight and last but not least muscle weighs more then wieght. Good Luck.
It is more complicated a subject then many people think. The faster you lose weight, the slower your metabolism will be in the long run. I found that one pound a week is a good amount to lose for weight stability. You need to cut out 500 calories a day to lose a pound a week. Eat a regular breakfast and lunch, and then just have a diet dinner. Do some walking. Stick to high protein, medium fat and low carbohydrates. The mitochondria in your cells needs fat to burn calories. Very few dietitians and doctors realize that a medium fat diet is better than a low fat diet in the long run. Do not do a high fat diet because what the mitochondria can't use will just be stored as fat in your body.
The thing you are forgetting is that you burn calories by simply being alive. Your basal calories burned account for a lot(those alone for me total almost 1700), so just focus on eating healthier (and less if you like, but don't drop below 1200) and working out more.
You need 1 calorie per kg per hour. your weight in kg is 66.2
which means you need 24 x 66.2 = 1588 calorie per day plus few hundred for the normal daily activities other than exercise, the net result is between 1600 to 2000. but before you start losing weight, let me calculate for you the ideal body weight = 50 + (2.3 x #">5')
50 + (2.3x (65 - 60)) = 61.5 kg, you are less than one kilogram more than the ideal, i don't think that you need to lose weight but any way if you decide to lose more weight then the calculation will be as follows:
you need around 2000 calorie per day, which means that your body burns at least 2000 calorie. if you exercise for an extra 500 calorie, then your body burns around 2500 calorie per day. if you eat 1500 per day, the balance which is 1000 calorie will be burned or taken from the fat stored in your body. i.e. you lose 1000 calorie per day which equals to 3500 calorie in 3 to for days which means 1 pound in three to four days.
but in scientific words, your body weight is suppose to be ideal.
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