Thread: Calorie Count, Low-Carb, or Low-Fat??? What Diet works?
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Old 08-14-2008   #6 (permalink)
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Re: Calorie Count, Low-Carb, or Low-Fat??? What Diet works?
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Well spoken.. err written Brad

The calorie intake you should consume, 4Fuqua, depends greatly on your height and size!!


Yes, I got to thinking about my math and you can re-calculate for your particular situation. Online calorie counters are all over the web and most are free.

If you are a man and weigh say 250 lbs, and have for a while, a good way to look at it is that you are averaging a daily caloric intake of somewhere around 3250 calories. (250 x 13 = 3,250) So if you could restrict your calories down to about 2500 you would create a deficit of 750 calories a day, or 5,250 calories per week. Since 3500 calories are equal to one pound of body weight you would see a weight loss initially of a pound and a half of weight per week. As the weight comes off your daily requirement to maintain your current weight comes down as your poundage drops.

For a 200 pound woman trying to get to say 135, she has been consuming 2600 calories per day and would have to cut that number back to no more than 1755 per day, everyday. Then it would still take nearly two years of hard work and dedication to reach the goal.

So many times when we "diet" we cut our caloric intake dramatically in the beginning and then slowly add back to our weekly average. Thats why so many "diets" fail. To be successful one should really go in the other direction. Cut back slowly giving your body time to adjust to what you are doing to it and also increase exercise slowly so you wont face injury.

Exercise helps tremendously in increasing the calorie deficit, but one pitfall is it increases appetite also. Just because you run 5 miles (burns about 700 calories for me) doesn't mean you can have a cheeseburger, fries, coke, and ice cream for supper. (2,000 calories) When training for a marathon two years ago I gained 20 pounds averaging 35 miles a week in training for the last two months before the race. All that running makes you hungry! It was then that I learned it is more about what you eat and how much you eat rather than how much exercise you do. It all has to work together.
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