Daily calorie intake-how many calories per day to lose weight?

Do you want to know how many calories you need to eat per day to lose weight? If so, congrats. Questions about your daily calorie intake is something only a smart person who really understands weight loss would do.

What I mean is, losing weight is literally ALL about eating the right number of calories per day. Proteins, fats and carbohydrates are certainly important as well (as are the food sources of these nutrients), but above all, your total daily calorie intake is the most important factor in allowing you to lose weight.

So, let's find out what your ideal daily calorie intake should be. All it takes is two easy steps ...

Fat loss works in principle like this ...

There are a number of calories that each person should eat per day to maintain their current weight. This is what is known as your maintenance calorie level. To lose weight, all you have to do is eat less calories per day than the amount of your "maintenance".

Create a calorie deficit and this ensures that your body will burn your own stored body fat for energy instead.

This is of course the scientifically proven fact of the Lose Weight Diet (and every other intelligent diet), just eat under your maintenance level on a daily basis.

So, that means that in order to answer the question of how many calories you need to eat per day to lose weight, you first need to find out what your daily maintenance calorie level is.

This maintenance level amount is based on a ton of factors that are specific to you and your body.
These factors include:

Weight, height, gender, age, activity level, and a whole series of purely genetic factors.

A pretty close estimate for you, use the quick and simple calorie maintenance level calculator, I've included it in the original article. Don't forget to come back here to step 2 directly after.

Okay, halfway done. Now that you have an estimate of how many calories you need to eat per day to maintain your current weight, it's time to figure out the daily calorie intake, which will allow you to lose weight.

Which means… it's time to make the deficit.

To do this, simply subtract 500 calories from your estimated daily maintenance calorie level.
So, for example, if your estimated maintenance level 3000 calories, you should now start eating 2500 calories per day. Simple as that.

You need to lose weight with a speed of approximately 1-2 pounds per week, which, of course, is the ideal recommended rate for safe, healthy, effective (and lasting) weight loss.

If you have 1-2 pounds loss per week, you're perfect. If you lose more or less than that (or not lose anything at all), simply add or subtract an additional 250 calories to look if you end up losing weight in the ideal case in the next couple of weeks. If you are, perfect! If you're not, please customize that until you are.

And then ... that's it. You're done.

Now you know how many calories you need to eat per day to lose weight.

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