You need to burn or eliminate 3,500 calories for every pound of body weight that you want to lose. The University of Maryland recommends losing no more than two pounds per week -- to do this you would need to cut 7,000 calories per week or 1,000 calories per day.
Diet and Exercise
The University of Maryland recommends a combination of diet and exercise in order to eliminate calories. If your goal is two pounds per week then you may want to cut your calories by 500 per day, as well as burn another 500 calories through exercise. Therefore, if your goal is to lose 10 pounds, it would take you approximately five weeks.
Judge your Food
Cutting calories may be easier than you think, according to "Fitness Magazine." Oversized meals and eating on the run might have you overeating without realizing it. Start paying attention to the type of food that you are eating, along with the portion size, and you may find that cutting calories is easier than you thought.
Quality Food
Hunger can sabotage a diet. The trick is to eat more lower calorie foods that are filling rather than foods that contain sugar and fat, according to "Fitness." Fill up on nutritious salads, soups, legumes, beans and lean protein and cut down on white bread, French fries and ice cream.
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