Calories Needed to Drop 1 Pound Per Week

Your food and exercise choices have a direct impact on your weight loss. Because of this, counting calories you eat and use daily and weekly is vital to ensure your weight loss success.

Considerations

In order to stay healthy, even while lose weight, women should eat at least 8,400 calories per week and men should eat at least 10,500 calories per week. These calories should be spread out evenly across all seven days in the week, so women must eat at least 1,200 calories a day and men must eat at least 1,500 calories a day.

Features

You must burn 3,500 calories more than you eat weekly to lose one pound per week. This means you need a daily 500 calorie deficit. You can achieve this by cutting the number of calories that you eat and increasing the number of calories you burn by exercising more each day.

Types

When you restrict calories to try to lose weight, you have to ensure that you eat nutritious calories instead of empty calories. Nutritious calories, such as those in lean protein and whole grains, provide nutrients that your body needs to function. Empty calories, such as those in snack cakes and sodas, don't provide nutrition for your body.

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Article reviewed by Melanie Zoltan Last updated on: Nov 6, 2010

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