When a label states that the food item contained in the package is based on a 2,000 calorie diet, does that mean total calories or calories from fat? And do I count the calories from fat, when trying to stay under 1,000 calories a day?
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The 2000 calorie FDA label is total calories.\n\nCalories from fat should already be included in the total calorie heading.  If you're on a 1000 calorie diet for whatever reason (not really recommended but it's your choice), then you count the total calories for each food.\n\nThe calories from fat are just part of the breakdown.  There are also the calories from carbs and protein.
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When you look at total caloric intake v. burning per day, you need to consider that your body burns calories just by simply functioning.  This includes times that you are at rest, just moving about, autonomic functions, etc.  This can be a tricky figure to determine but there are calculators out there that can help you establish a rough baseline.\n\nThere are some things you may want to examine in your own routine.  How many calories are you getting in one sitting?  How many meals per day are you having?  When are you eating?  If you are eating twice a day that's not going to help.  If you are eating a 900 calorie meal in one sitting that won't help either.  If you eat more than your body needs at one time, the excess will be stored as fat.\n\nSo, you can consider a more structured diet.  I personally have at least 5 meals a day, smaller portions each meal (more or less I have three actual meals and snacks in between, and I'm eating something every three hours or so).  Also, I drink lots of water and reduce the processed simple carbs and bad fats.  Some people go as far as keeping a journal to help them track what their caloric intake/burning.\n\nFinally, consider adding resistance training to your exercise regiment, such as weight training or yoga.  This will help you to burn calories even when you're not exercising, such as when you're resting (recovery period).\n\nGood luck!
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One way to check the amount of fat in a product and compare it to another is to check a nutrient data base.  \n\nIf you go to www.mypyramid.com, you will find lots of nutrition information available.  Choose MyPyramid Tracker in the box on the left.  Choose Assess Your Intake.  Then develop a free account.  Then you can get nutrition information on one food at a time, or on a whole meal, or day's worth.  \n\nI checked potato chips and corn chips.  Neither were in a comparable quantity.  So I identified the fat and calorie content of each and then compared.  With 75 calories of potato chips, there is 4.8 gm fat.  With 100 calories of corn chips, there is 6 gm fat.\nThere are several ways to calculate.  But since 75 is 3/4 of 100, then 3/4 of 6 is 4.5.\n\n75 calories of potato chips have 4.8 gms fat.  \n75 calories of corn chips have 4.5 gms fat.\nTherefore potato chips have more fat than corn chips.\n\nLenore
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Look at the nutrition label on the side of the box. Look under where it says 1 serving. One of the first things listed should be calories. NOw, the box will have two calorie measurments (usually) you want the one under kcal. SO if it says 100 you know how many is in the food.\nNot all foods you eat will have calories listed, such as at restraunts ect. This site has an estimate of how many calories is in all types of food! including fast food\nhttp://www.thecaloriecounter.com/\nThis site tells you how many calories you need to eat to MAINTAIN weight\nhttp://www.cancer.org/docroot/PED/content/PED_6_1x_Calorie_Calculator.asp\nYes it is true! a 3500 calorie deficiency (through a combo of excercise and eating les than to maintain weight will lose you a pound. To calculate calories buruned doing certain activities, go here!\nhttp://www.primusweb.com/fitnesspartner/jumpsite/calculat.htm\n\nAnd no, if you excercise you cannot eat what you like if you want to lose weight to the person who said you can
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It is dangerous to eat fewer than 1200 calories a day, and it is dangerous to lose more than about 2 pounds a week.
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Losing weight is a simple equation: if you burn more calories than you eat, the weight will come off. Start off by estimating how many calories you burn each day using the calorie calculator (http://www.straighthealth.com/pages/tools/caloriecalclb.html). This will give you an idea of how many calories to eat. Healthy weight loss is 1-2 pounds per week. To lose 1 pound per week you need to create a calorie deficit (bur more than you eat) of 500 calories per day. To lose 2 pounds a week, you have to double the deficit to 1000 calories per day. You can achieve this by eating less, exercising more or a combination of both. For more information on diet, weight loss and exercise, visit http://straighthealth.com
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2500-3000 cal/day.\n\n200-300 cal/2hr.\n\nidealy half an hour a day\n\nNo...our body itself burns 2000 calori without doin anything.\n\nNo..u have to take proteins, cutdown the fat and sugars. no need to consume less than the required calories.
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OMG! !! That is what you ate today? PIZZA AND NOODLES??? I would gain weight SO SUPER FAST if I ate like that!!! I used to weight alot but I lost 54 lbs by changing my diet!  In two and a half pizza's, there are probably OVER 3000 calories...okay...im going to take a breath...let's see...there are 270 calories in ONE SLICE and their are 8 slices in a pizza...you had two and a half, that is 8+8+4=20 slices...that is 20slicesx270cal= *heart attack* OMG it's 5400 calories okay okay...maybe you mean 2 and a half slices..hopefully you do that is only 675 calories...but if you really did eat two and a half FULL pizzas and they were ONLY cheese mediums, then that is 5400 calories.......and guess what...there are 3500 calories in a pound.  Read my article on calorie conservation here http://www.healthandstrength.net/qofweek.htm and you can check out my before and after pic here http://www.healthandstrength.net\nIf you ran on the treadmill for 45 minutes and burned 500 calories...it would take you 10 WHOLE days JUST to burn off that pizza...imagine if you didnt eat all that pizza and burned 5400 calories! That is about a pound and a half.\nPLEASE EAT MORE VEGGIES!!! Did you know that going more than 3.5 hours without eating anything puts your body into starvation mode and everything is stored as fat?! Thats why they say to eat 5-6 small meals a day all consisiting of healthy veggies and lean proteins.  I would get sick for a week if I ate what you did!  (I can't imagine ever eating 20 slices!!! you should have entered a contest)
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If you email me, I will gladly give you a diet based on Jenny Craig and Nutrisystem. You can do it yourself at home. You won't need to measure anything or count calories. It is all already proportioned. It involves all food groups and is based on 1250 calories. Very healthy.  I have shared it with many askers on yahoo answers.
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Calculate how many fat grams a day it takes to maintain   your weight find out from your doctor or dietition. Pick up a booklet telling calories and fat grams of foods at the supermarket. Look up and write down fat grams of everything you eat, once you find out how many fat grams you will let yourself take in a day. Keep that number under the number allowed for the day. Get on the scale every morning, and write it on your calendar. This gives you control of your weight. Everything you take in takes a small decision. Make that decision right in the store before you buy things.
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I would suggest that you keep a food log. Count your calories for 2 weeks. I think that you will find that you're not eating as much as you think. But if you're eating above supposedly maintenance calories, and still not gaining weight, you might have a hyperthyroid, which means that your metabolism is too fast for you.\n\nI'm not exactly sure how to calculate maintenance calories, but go to google, and type in "daily caloric requirements", and they'll help you figure out what you need. Good luck!
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I'm not sure I agree with the 100 cal = 1 kcal.  That would mean that your mustard, at 57 kcal is actually 5700 calories.  That's an awful lot of mustard, somewhere on the order of 7 pounds if you work out the math (I used the Harrods traditional English mustard label for reference).  Anyway, kcal in UK and Ireland and many other European nations are the equiavalent to calories as measured here in the USA.  kCal is actually the more correct measure, scientifically speaking, however for some reason we adopted the standard "calories" here.  As for why the descrepency between British and American products, that's hard to explain.  My only guess is that the British one is being measured against 100g of product (typical practice), while the US version is measured for a teaspoon.  In that case, the calories in a tsp are quite low, maybe not zero, but low.
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I can easily understand how this would be a very confusing and difficult question, with all the misinformation out there.\n\nOf course, the difference between the calories from proteins, carbohydrates, oils and fats is all a matter of relative balance.  If you are eating a proper diet, calories from protein are relatively irrelevant.  Generally speaking, except for milk fat, like butter, you should avoid fat.  A relatively well balanced amount of oil totalling less than 10% of your intake is certainly better.\n\nBut your question is basically what is the difference between bad calories (empty) and good calories (nutrition-filled).  Most of this question actually revolves around carbohydrate and oil consumption.  Sugar, whether referred to as sucrose, sucralose, dehydrated cane juice, or any of a dozen other variations, causes an extremely unhealthy insulin spike and nutralizes other nutrients.  \n\nA banana, which is low in calories contrary to popular myth, is extremely high in nutrients including potasium, iron, vitamin c and protein.  Zucchini, which is commonly thought of as a healthy food, contains only fiber, but is relatively low in calories.\n\nThe amount of calories in a particular food is much less relevant than the amount of nutrition in that food, particularly in relation to how many calories it has.\n\nYour body requires more than just calories to survive; you need vitamins, minerals and protein, as well as certain other types of nutrients, to survive.  You can consume 2000 empty calories every day, with no nutrient content, and still die of starvation, whereas a person can live almost indefinitely off of green leafy vegetables and yellow vegetables, with a little dairy, even though that person is consuming relatively few calories in a day.\n\nI'm sorry; I started off on the novel-length dissertation, but I've done my best to curtail it.
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Hmmm, counting calories is tough.  \n\nIt is better to have a concept of things and how much energy they give you rather than trying to memorize caloric values.  \n\nIf you learn to associate certain foods as being "bad" and certain ones as being "good" you will achieve the same result with less effort, but then you would be called as "calorie aware" rather than "calorie counter"
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The easiest way to determine how many calories you can eat and lose weight is by figuiring out how many calories you burn a day.  As long as you burn more than you eat, you'll lose weight.
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They are fairly accurate for macronutrients.  They won't necessarily list all the micronutrients, however.  If it says 0g fat, you should read the label because they are allowed to round down fat grams and there could still be oil.  \n\nBallpark figures should be sufficient for calorie tracking however, you really should be eating within a range of calories each day not a specific number, since even the calories in say, an apple are determined by taking the average of many apples and your apple might have a few more or a few less calories than that average.
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Despite what some are saying this is a very good question. First and foremost you have to understand the RDA scales ARE for survival. So the answer is roughly 2000. However, there’s more to it than just that…. You have to consider where your calories are coming from. The 2,000 scales is based only If you are going to follow the nutritional percentage guidelines as well.  You could very easily get 2,000 calories from cake and ice cream. You would get the calories, but overload on saturated fats and sugars, and miss the proteins, and vitamins and minerals that your body needs. It needs to be balanced. \n\n In order for anyone to answer the question you asked in relation to you, you need to provide more information. If you workout, play sports, or are generally active, your going to need more calories to maintain your current body. It all depends on what you want to achieve.