What's Your Daily Calorie Requirement To Lose Weight?
You could be suffering from the second most common "preventable" disease and you still might not consider it - obesity. But the good news is, it's preventable. It's nice to know that more people are now starting to be more conscious with their diets and their need to get help to lose weight.
People have now started seeking long term solutions instead of quick fixes and diet fads. They have started learning and applying proper intake of daily calories and started reading product labels to see if what they will be buying will give them healthy benefits.
We all need approximately 1000 to 1500 calories every day for our daily activities. We even burn calories while we sleep. So in order for us to lose weight, we need to consume less calories or we need to use more calories every 24 hours.
Here are some activities and the approximate number of calories they cost you:
Usual daily activities: sitting at rest=20 calories per hour; standing=25; thinking=10; dressing=35; when you do light housework=70-150; leasurely walking around the neighborhood=100-125; and when you do vigorous exercises you can lose up to 500 calories.
Finding out how many calories you would need through the day is a very complex mathematical calculation that would be based on your metabolism, body frame, family genes, physiology, the weather and even your emotional state (no kidding!).
If you want to know the approximate amount of calories you need every day to create a caloric deficit and lose weight, you can use this simple formula: bodyweight x 13= daily caloric intake. With this method you can more or less have a good idea about your daily calorie requirement.
This simple formula can give you the approximate amount only. If you weight 163 lbs multiply it by 13 equals 2119. Your caloric intake should just be approximately 2100 calories every day for you to lose weight. It will certainly help a lot if you could add some light to moderate exercises if you want to make your weight loss faster.
