Weight Loss Made Easy

“How many calories do I need per day?” is a question that everyone wants to know the answer to, but very few people actually know the answer to.

For women the answer to the question,  “How many calories do I need per day?”, is that you need approximately 10 calories  for every pound of weight, per day, to maintain your current body weight.

Here’s the calculation for 160 pound woman:

(160 x 10) + 160 = 1760

Here’s the calculation for a 250 pound man:

(250 x 10) + (250 x 2) =  3000

Remember, this calculation is if you want to maintain your current weight.

If you want to lose weight, you want to eat less, a lot less. One pound  = 3500 calories. This means that if you want to lose one pound of fat, you need to deprive yourself of 3500 calories, or do 3500 extra calories of exercise.

No wonder it’s so hard to lose weight. Keep trying, you’ll get there.

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