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Originally Posted by sdbeta1
she meant adding up all that you posted counts for having lost how many calories?
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It's not how many calories have been lost. It's a range of calories that can be consumed while still losing weight.
Everyone has a maintenance level, meaning, you eat that much to maintain your current weight. If you eat more, you gain. If you eat less, you lose. Of course, the formula cannot be perfectly exact because bodies are different. But it's pretty accurate!
I don't count calories, per se. What I do is keep in mind the number of calories I have up to my maintenance level and watch what I ingest.
The rule is that there are approximately 3,500 calories per pound of weight. So, if your maintenance level is 2,000 calories daily and you eat 1,000 calories daily, you're cutting 1,000 calories. That means you'll lose one pound of weight every 3.5 days. Again, it's not exact...just a guideline.
And, valkyrie, you
know there are more issues than just eating less for overweight people. For people who aren't depressed (or have medical reasons for overweight), we don't judge our caloric intake well. In general, normal weight people instinctively know when to quit. The rest of us don't. That's the problem...so, that's why I'm saying that, for me, having a general guideline helps me monitor myself.
I still have quite a bit to lose.