The calories you need to consume to maintain your weight depends on several factors, including your activity level and how much you weigh. The more you weigh the more calories you burn maintaining your mass and motoring through your activities.
Weight Maintenance
Overall daily caloric needs are determined by your age, weight, sex and activity level. If you are a 40-year-old male who weighs 160 lbs and have a desk job you will need about 1,900 calories to maintain your current weight. A 40-year-old female requires about 1,700 calorie, while a 20-year-old male requires 2,050 calories and a 20-year-old female needs 1,850 calories.
Calories Burned Doing Aerobic Exercise
Calories burned doing two hours of aerobic exercise varies depending on the intensity of the activity and your weight. A person who weighs 160 lbs burns about 726 calories walking briskly, over 1,000 calories jogging or doing high impact aerobics and over 1,200 calories doing step aerobics, according to A Calorie Calculator.
Daily Caloric Need
Adding calories burned doing aerobic exercise to the calories burned over the rest of the day yields a total number of calories needed of 1,800 to 2,250 calories for a 160 lb. person. Use online calorie calculators to estimate the number of calories you need to maintain your weight taking into account your age, weight, activity level and sex.
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