Lower Your Calorie Intake To Take Off The Weight
The article below is a bit controversial. It talks about a daily calorie intake of 1,000. Personally I don’t believe that going under 1,200 a day is a healthy way to diet.
However, I posted this article so that you can see the mathematics behind calculating what calories you take in compared to the calories that you burn and what the resulting weight loss would be. It also helps you look at losing ounces of fat and not concentrating on pounds as most scales don’t show ounces so if you scale doesn’t move it doesn’t mean that you are not losing weight, you may have lost several ounces - your scale just won’t show it.
Every ounce of fat stored in your body represents about 250 calories.
If you eat only 1,000 calories per day, but actually burn 2,480, there is a difference of 1,480 calories that must come from your fat warehouse. Divide these 1,480 calories by 250 (the number of calories per ounce of body fat) and you get the figure 5.9—roughly, 6 ounces of fat that you can expect to lose per day on a 1,000-calorie diet.
You want to lose 25 pounds, or 400 ounces. Losing 6 ounces per day on a 1,000-calorie diet, you will require just about two months to reach your goal. After that, you can graduate to your maintenance diet (2,480 calories example) and be rid of fat worries evermore.
This is intended purely as a rough guide in case you don’t want to bother your head with arithmetic to figure out your own expectancy along the lines given above.
It represents actual fat loss—the total weight loss may be even greater when the tissues start eliminating surplus water. Do not be disturbed if you vary a little, one way or another, from the predicted losses, for there are countless subtle factors that modify your own rate of reduction.
Naturally, you will lose fat even faster if your diet is less than 1,000 calories per day. You probably have a natural desire to get results in a hurry, so step up and meet the a diet that will reduce you faster than fasting, that will satisfy your hunger and at the same time increase your vigor and sense of well-being?
Ordinarily, a weight loss of from 1½ to 2 pounds a week is the maximum permitted by physicians. Unquestionably this is a safe, sound, and sensible principle to follow. You would be much better off figuring your daily calorie intake is more like 1,200 to 1,500 as going any lower may cause you to miss important nutrients and could send you body into starvation mode and slow the fat burning down.
