Losing Weight Couting Calories is Easy - Just Follow the Maths!

If you're serious about weight loss, then losing weight counting calories is easy, just don't go on fad diets thatmake you lose weight by restricting you calories to severely! Learning about the calories you consume will make your weight loss effort much more effective, so you can burn fat quicker.

If you want to lose weight the healthy way then you should be consuming no more than 500 calories less than your daily calorie requirements. Generally speaking for men the daily calorie requirements to maintain weight is 2500 calories and women it's 2000 calories. This of course depends on the individual, however use this as a rough guide and adjust if necessary. Find out how many calories you need to maintain you current weight and how many calories you need to lose weight safely, with our Basal Metablic Calculator. (Note, this is just an estimate.)

Are you exercising? Then this calorie requirement increases. For example let's say you do a quick 30 minute jog during the day, which would burn between 200-300 calories. Then if you where a woman, consuming between 1800-2000 calorie per day would be enough to burn fat weight quickly.

Here is the maths of losing weight counting calories, for women -

Daily Calorie Required for normal bodily functions (if you where sitting down each day) = 2000 + 300 Calories consumed during 30 minute jog = 2,300 calories required for the day.

If you eat 500 calories less, then you burn then you would be at a total of 1,800 calories. Split that throughout the day that would allow you to have 5 meals at around 350-400 calories per meal. Which is the perfect amount for a hearty healthy meal, to satisfy your appetite until your next meal, and keep your metabolism high.

There is 3500 calories in a pound, so maintain a 500 calorie deficit each day would be 3500 calories burned per week in excess, meaning you would have lost a pound of fat weight. Don't try and increase that deficit as eating much less than you need can actually shut down your metabolism as your body enters into 'starvation mode'.

An example healthy meal that contains around that 300-400 calorie mark, is a spiced breast of chicken (skin off), a handful or wholemeal pasta/rice or 1 potato and a small side salad with a teaspoon of olive oil base.

Research ideas for the healthy range of foods you should be eating and their calorie amounts, which can be found in any sound healthy eating plan or book such as the bonus guides offered with Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle. Set yourself a daily meal plan based on whether you're male or female, and find foods that will fulfill your daily calorie requirements that will ensure you lose weight.

Once you have started losing weight counting calories for a week or two and the results are in, it will be like second nature to you, so you will no longer be needing to count calories, you'll just know what you can eat to lose weight, naturally and quickly.