How many calories to lose weight in a week

If you really want to lose weight seriously, you need to start tracking how many calories you are consuming on a daily basis to be truly successful. It is strongly recommended that you use a slow weight loss method as it is the safest and most reliable way to lose weight and keep it off longer.

To lose one pound of fat, a healthy person must burn approximately 3,500 more calories than they eat. Here’s an example: By decreasing your calories by 300 per day and increasing your daily activity output to burn an additional 200 calories, you would experience a weight loss of one pound per week.

Let’s put it another way for better clarification: To lose a pound of fat a week, you need to burn 500 calories each day, or you risk staying where you are and even gaining weight instead of losing it.

Now that you know how many calories you need to burn to lose one pound of fat per week, you can more easily estimate how many calories you need to burn when you want to lose more pounds. So if you want to lose two pounds of fat, you need to burn about 1000 calories per day. If you want to burn three pounds of fat, you will need to burn approximately 1,500 calories a day.

Now you know how many calories to burn for whatever number of pounds you want to shed.