HOW MANY calories should I burn a day?!


Question: HOW MANY calories should I burn a day?
I know I should be eating roughly 1600 calories, but how many should I try to burn if I want to lose 2 pounds a week?

Girl, 5'9", 175lbs

Answers:

According to the calorie calculator at livestrong.com, a 16 year old girl with your height and weight can lose 2 lbs a week eating 996 calories a day.

So if you ate roughly 1600 calories, you'd have to burn off 600 a day in order to achieve that weight loss. But if you wanted to lose 1.5 lbs a week instead, you could do it eating 1,246 calories a day and that might be more doable. Eating 2,000 calories a day would maintain your current weight. Sounds like you're in good shape!



If your caloric need for the day is only 1600 calories then you're about 80 years old and you don't do anything but sleep.

I think you need to go figure and get some real numbers. Here's how.

? Go here http://www.bmi-calculator.net/bmr-calcul… and calculate your BMR.

? Go here http://www.bmi-calculator.net/bmr-calcul… and multiple your BMR by the appropriate number for your activity level to get your daily burn rate or the number of calories you burn per day. For example, if you are “lightly active”, multiply your BMR by 1.375 or 1.725 if you are “very active”.

? Subtract 500 calories to burn one pound of fat per week or 1000 calories to burn two pounds of fat per week. Don’t try to burn faster than 2 pounds per week.

? Use the following macronutrient ratios for your daily burn: 55% calories from carbs, 20% calories from fat, and 25% calories from protein.

If you do the above, you will burn fat as long as nothing changes such as your activity level or your metabolic rate or weight. As you lose weight, you will need to recalculate you BMR because it is weight dependent.

Good luck and good health!!

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Don't listen to this fool. If you want to lose weight you should burn more calories than you take in.



How old are you? How many calories you should burn also depends on your age...




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