How much weight you can lose is dependent on your ability to
reduce the amount of calories you eat over a long period of time. It
doesn't matter if you eat a little more today and a little less
tomorrow. For weight loss, you need to think in terms of weeks and
months rather than hours and days.
The only thing that matters is how many days you can eat less calories than you need to maintain your current weight vs how many days that you eat enough or more calories than you need to maintain your current weight.
This is how to picture eating for weight loss over a week;
Lets say you need to eat 2000 calories per day to maintain your current weight. (and lets also assume you want to be lighter than this weight)
Lets also assume you want to lose half a pound of fat this week. A half pound of fat contains about 1750 calories.
By the end of this week you would need to have eaten 1750 calories less than the amount of calories that keep you at your current bodyweight.
It doesn't matter at all how you get to this deficit. It just matters that by the end of the week you have eaten less food than you needed to stay the same weight. That's it.
The real trick is finding a way to do this consistently. Most popular diets give you a set of rules to follow every day, every time you eat, taking all the fun and spontaneity out of eating. These diets are doomed to fail because they are too restrictive. Food is fun, and social, and nobody wants to be told they can't eat their favorite foods or that they can't go out and eat when everyone else is and enjoy the same foods and not feel guilty about it.
So back to the original question: how many calories should you eat per day to lose weight?
Answer: It doesn't matter, and it is too difficult to monitor how much food you eat on daily basis. Instead set your goal to be less food over a week, not a day. This will take the guilt away on days when you go out and eat socially, or just want to have some ice cream and burgers. So the new question is this; How do you do this? And I think I have the answer.
I have recently been exposed to a new style of nutrition that is the easiest way to achieve a weekly caloric deficit that produces lasting weight loss and does not restrict any of the foods I like to eat or when I can eat them! This new program is called Eat Stop Eat, and frankly it's so obvious it was almost embarrassing that I never managed to think of this on my own years ago. The basic concept is short term intermittent Fasting!
Yes that's right Fasting! The concept blew me away when I first heard it. And then it started to make so much more sense as I read into the research with the help of the author of the book Brad Pilon. And the big difference with this style of nutrition is that it is flexible, sustainable AND effective.
Short term fasting is a scientifically sound and effective approach to weight loss. I have researched and tried every other popular diet and come to the conclusion that they are all flawed because they are too restrictive. Intermittent fasting allows you to eat whatever you like on your "eating" days, and it also allows you to choose when your 'eating days' are. Mix in a few 'fasting' days and you end up eating what you like, when you like, as well as losing weight. This could be the new diet revolution that actually works!
The only thing that matters is how many days you can eat less calories than you need to maintain your current weight vs how many days that you eat enough or more calories than you need to maintain your current weight.
This is how to picture eating for weight loss over a week;
Lets say you need to eat 2000 calories per day to maintain your current weight. (and lets also assume you want to be lighter than this weight)
Lets also assume you want to lose half a pound of fat this week. A half pound of fat contains about 1750 calories.
By the end of this week you would need to have eaten 1750 calories less than the amount of calories that keep you at your current bodyweight.
It doesn't matter at all how you get to this deficit. It just matters that by the end of the week you have eaten less food than you needed to stay the same weight. That's it.
The real trick is finding a way to do this consistently. Most popular diets give you a set of rules to follow every day, every time you eat, taking all the fun and spontaneity out of eating. These diets are doomed to fail because they are too restrictive. Food is fun, and social, and nobody wants to be told they can't eat their favorite foods or that they can't go out and eat when everyone else is and enjoy the same foods and not feel guilty about it.
So back to the original question: how many calories should you eat per day to lose weight?
Answer: It doesn't matter, and it is too difficult to monitor how much food you eat on daily basis. Instead set your goal to be less food over a week, not a day. This will take the guilt away on days when you go out and eat socially, or just want to have some ice cream and burgers. So the new question is this; How do you do this? And I think I have the answer.
I have recently been exposed to a new style of nutrition that is the easiest way to achieve a weekly caloric deficit that produces lasting weight loss and does not restrict any of the foods I like to eat or when I can eat them! This new program is called Eat Stop Eat, and frankly it's so obvious it was almost embarrassing that I never managed to think of this on my own years ago. The basic concept is short term intermittent Fasting!
Yes that's right Fasting! The concept blew me away when I first heard it. And then it started to make so much more sense as I read into the research with the help of the author of the book Brad Pilon. And the big difference with this style of nutrition is that it is flexible, sustainable AND effective.
Short term fasting is a scientifically sound and effective approach to weight loss. I have researched and tried every other popular diet and come to the conclusion that they are all flawed because they are too restrictive. Intermittent fasting allows you to eat whatever you like on your "eating" days, and it also allows you to choose when your 'eating days' are. Mix in a few 'fasting' days and you end up eating what you like, when you like, as well as losing weight. This could be the new diet revolution that actually works!
Learn how easy it is to fast for weight loss with the revolutionary new program at http://www.eatstopeat.com
John Barban has his masters degree in human nutrition and is a certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist and a Varsity Strength and Conditioning Coach. His trademarked http://www.6minuteCircuits.com Circuit Training Workouts have helped thousands of women with weight loss and fat burning.
You can ask John a question about fasting for weight loss, or exercising at http://www.grrlathlete.freeforums.org
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John Barban has his masters degree in human nutrition and is a certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist and a Varsity Strength and Conditioning Coach. His trademarked http://www.6minuteCircuits.com Circuit Training Workouts have helped thousands of women with weight loss and fat burning.
You can ask John a question about fasting for weight loss, or exercising at http://www.grrlathlete.freeforums.org
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