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Something to think about when calculating your calories:
1. As you lose weight you burn off less calories.
If you consider that for women 14cal/pound is a way to calculate metabolism . . . if she loses 20 pounds she is burning off about 280 less calories a day. Thats an hours worth of cardio in calories for a lot of people.
Like taking off a 20 pound back pack. (Some really hardcore people will use a weighted vest to compensate for lost weight)
Thats where a lot of people go wrong when they try the "eat healthy" or "watch what they eat" approach to weight loss.
Because they didn't do the math they cut calories by eating less, but not enough to get to their goal weights.
And because they don't have a good idea of how many calories they are eating/burning they don't know what to do when they plateau or the weight loss stops.
Plus, a lot of initial weight loss is water . . the heavier you are the more of it is likely to be water.
Assume that over half the weight loss in the first two to three weeks is water. That may not be completely accurate but its a good assumption so you don't get demoralized if weight loss starts slowing down.
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