How Many Calories Do You Need In A Day?

By: KayeMedalla Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 Time: 2:58 PM

You could be suffering from the second most common "preventable" disease and you still might not consider it - obesity. But the good news is, it's preventable. It's nice to know that more people are now starting to be more conscious with their diets and their need to get help to lose weight.

People are now looking for solutions for their weight problems because of the wellness awareness campaigns conducted by concerned government and non-government organizations. There are now websites that offer free instructions teaching people to count calories and some even have BMI calculators readily available.

Basically we all need approximately one calorie each minute, simply to keep living. Even while we are sleeping we burn up an average of 500 calories throughout the night. Men and women need around 1000 to 1500 calories every day to keep up with their daily routines.

Want to know how you burn calories everyday?

Usual daily activities: sitting at rest=20 calories per hour; standing=25; thinking=10; dressing=35; when you do light housework=70-150; leasurely walking around the neighborhood=100-125; and when you do vigorous exercises you can lose up to 500 calories.

Finding out how many calories you would need through the day is a very complex mathematical calculation that would be based on your metabolism, body frame, family genes, physiology, the weather and even your emotional state (no kidding!).

If you want to know the approximate amount of calories you need every day to create a caloric deficit and lose weight, you can use this simple formula: bodyweight x 13= daily caloric intake. With this method you can more or less have a good idea about your daily calorie requirement.

So you'll need to go on a 2000 calorie a day diet to create a caloric deficit and make your body look for other means to get energy which is from your stored fat. Following low calorie diets is not that simple because to make it effective, you will need to follow some guidelines and additional measures to maximize fat loss instead of just wasting muscle.

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