Monday, June 29, 2009

How Many Calories Should I Eat To Lose Weight?

Have you ever asked yourself "how many calories should I eat to lose weight?" Experts recommend women consume around 2000 calories per day and that men consume around 2500 calories per day, just to keep trim. This is a guide, and assumes that you are eating a balanced diet, with no more than around 90g of fat per day. If you want to lose weight, women should aim for around 1300 to 1400 calories and men should aim for between 1500 and 1800 calories.

It sounds easy doesn't it! - Most of us know that its not. When we examine the nutritional information on the packaging of our favourite foods, we often find that we are surprised by the amounts of sugar or fat that they contain. This can leave us completely confused as to how to put together meals that will have the right nutritional balance, still leave us feeling full and most of all, that we will still enjoy.

There are diets out there that will give you a menu for the week that will meet all of the criteria. The problem with these is that many of the meals may contain food that we don't enjoy or seem bland and in many cases have such small portions, that we can easily see why we might lose weight eating them!

It is far better to design a menu around meals that you eat normally. Yes, there are things that will need to be cut out, and you will need to change some portion sizes. Some of the portions can go up as well, for example, vegetables can be used to fill your plate and your tummy without adding many calories.

To help you identify how many calories the food that you eat contains, I have added a calorie counter to my blog. You can select for a list of foods that you have eaten and keep count of how many calories you have consumed each day.

If you need more help, I found a diet program that works very well. It has an ingenious menu designer that lets you select the foods that you enjoy and eat normally, and then it automatically works out a menu for you. If you would like to give it a try follow this link - Stripthefat.

1 comment:

  1. Good Blog, It is easy to listen reduce fat but to maintain body fitness with good diet is difficult it needs some guts.Avoiding junk foods,fatty food may decrease,its take long time but be patience and maintain diet food.
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