how many calories can you eat before you gain a pound?
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You only need to be 300-500 calories per day above your Daily Energy Expenditure (DER) to gain 1 pound in a week. \n\nTry this calculator to roughly assess your DER:\nhttp://www.preventdisease.com/healthtools/articles/bmr.html
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Even if you were able to burn the calories necessary for this rate of weight reduction, it would not stay off. Think about how long it takes to put weight ON - your body (your endocrine system specifically) created a set point on what your weight should be based on your BMR or basal metabolic rate. As you gain weight, your body will slowly increase the set point to match your daily net calories. If you are taking in more than you are burning then you gain weight, if you are burning more than you are taking in then you lose weight. Like the previous respondant said, it takes somewhere in the neighborhood of 3300 calories per day to lose 1 pound of body mass. This is an unsustainable rate of weight reduction and will return quickly if you somehow do manage it because your body hasn't adjusted down its set point for metabolic requirements. Permanent weight lost occurs at about 1 pound per month or at most 1 pound weekly.
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burn 3500 calories to lose one pound of fat
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The calories needed to lose weight varies from person to person. It is affected by your current weight and your level of activity.  Many people, including me,  would gain weight on 3000 calories a day!  The average person needs 2000-2500 calories to maintain their current weight.  Use this site to see how many calories you need daily to stay the weight that you are.  http://www.inch-aweigh.com/dcn.php\n\nThen, if you want to lose, you must take in at least 300 calories less per day.\n\nMost doctors recommend a calorie intake of 1200 to 1500 calories a day for those that want to lose weight.  I have a wonderful diet that is easy to use and follow (no measuring and no counting calories involved).  If you would like it, please email and I will send it to you.  It is based on nutrisystem and jenny craig but without the expense...you do it all on your own.  It includes all the basic food groups and so is also very healthy.  It is based on 1250 calories.  I have already shared it with a few others here at yahoo answers.
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3,500 calories is equal to one pound. For example, if you eat 250 calories per day fewer than your maintenance rate requires and exercise enough to burn an additional 250 calories each day, you will lose approximately one pound per week.
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the number of calories it takes to lose a pound fat? In other words, eat 500 calories less than you need every day for seven days and you should emerge one pound lighter.\n\nthe theory sounds great. unfortunately, it doesn't work that well in practice.
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You can not eat something once and add 3 pounds.\nIt takes a couple of days of binge eating
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It depends on a lot of factors: Age, Weights, Height, amount of exercises you get...\n\nfor a quick check, multiply your body weight by 10, and eat that number of calories. If you are too far removed from that number something probably needs to change.\n\nStarting with the number you got earlier, start to monitor your weight. If you are gaining weight, eat a little less. If you are losing weight, eat a little more. (unless, of course, you are trying to gain or lose weight.)
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Depends on your height, weight and body mass index (percentage of fat and muscle in your body). For example, for a 5 foot 4 inch woman of 145 pounds who is trying to lose weight, the ideal calorie intake for one day is 1200-1300/day. Now if its a man, you will want to eat more because on average, men have faster metabolic rates than women. 3,500 calories is one pound so basically if you can burn 3,500 calories in one day (very difficult) you lose one pound in that day, or you intake 3,500 calories and you've gained a pound...thats if you have been sitting on your bum all day. Its helpful to search these sorta things online on diet websites, there are many...hope this helped...\n:)
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To gain weight, you need to take in more calories per day than you expend physically each day. \n1 lb is approximately 3500 calories. To calculate your BMR I recommend going to www.caloriesperhour.com. Once you know your BMR for resting state (this means what your body uses to function: eat , breathe, keep your organs running, talk etc.)you will know how many calories required to MAINTAIN your weight. \nAfter you know this information you can develop a higher calorie (more protein for muscle building) diet to follow.\nThen I would recommend strength and muscle building exercises using this site with great demos and pictures with each muscle in the body: http://exrx.net/Lists/Directory.html.\n\nAbout.com (http://nutrition.about.com/od/dietsformedicaldisorders/f/GainWeight.htm?terms=gain+weight)\nhas some great articles on weight gain the healthy way.\n\nGood luck and may you gain! =D
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A pound of fat is 3,500 calories in excess of the calories your body burns. You can calculate your basal metabolic rate (the minimum number of calories your body burns just being alive every day) and then using a tool like Fit Day online to calculate how many calories you're expending with your life style and working out. Compare that to the number of calories you eat every day.  The chances are--if you're working out and not eating excessively, your weight gain is probably mostly muscle. \n\nThere are scales you can buy that approximate fat and muscle composition, but the only way to find out for sure is to get doctor's measurements like underwater weight testing (fat floats while muscle doesnt).  If you don't want to pay money for things like that and just want to be healthy--take repeated tape measurements of your chest, waist and other body parts. The location of inch decreases/increases will tell you where the weight is going. You may be losing fat while gain muscle mass.
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First, learn how to spell.  It's not "wait", it's "weight."  And it's not "doe", it's "do".  Here's the way to lose weight.  Weigh yourself now.  Then go to CaloriesCount.com and find out how many calories you would need to eat to MAINTAIN your current weight.  There are 3500 calories in a pound.  So if you want to lose a pound a week, you will have to eat 500 LESS calories a day to lose a pound a week. Of course, if you also exercise, you will lose weight faster.  Also, be very strict with yourself and don't eat anything unless you know what's in it and how many calories it contains. If you do this consistently, you will lose weight.  There are no magic tricks. It's hard work and it takes a long time. It took a long time to gain the weight; you can't lose it in less time than you gained it.
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1 pound = 9.74351079 × 10^15 calories
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Theoretically, about 3500 calories equals one pound. This means that you'd have to take in 3500 fewer calories than you need, over a period of time, to lose one pound. Keep in mind, this is in theory; what happens in the real world can be very different.\n\nOften, as we eat less, our bodies expend calories at a slower rate. Perhaps this occurs to ensure our survival, or just to defend a comfortable body weight. In any event, this slowdown is a real phenomenon, and has been proven in many laboratory studies — it's called diet induced adaptive thermogenesis. Most everyday people simply call it a decrease in metabolism. If your calorie requirement falls, it's increasingly difficult to take in few enough calories to lose weight. This can be quite a frustration and challenge to the person trying to shed some pounds.\n\nSo, while it's nice to have an equation that works in the lab, the 3500-calorie question is elusive to many of us. Unfortunately, our bodies don't work like a balance sheet or checkbook — what goes in and comes out doesn't always calculate. If it were that simple, the diet industry wouldn't be worth the billions of dollars that's being spent annually by folks in search of permanent weight loss.
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Your request is impossible.  One pound lost means you burning 3500 calories to get it off.  3500 OVER and ABOVE waht you are eating have got to be burned.  At a 1000 calorie deficit per day, that is still only 3.5 lbs. a week.\n\nInstead, try losing it about as slowly as you put it on.  I KNOW you didnt' gain 10 lbs. a week!\n\nEat less, exercise more.  It will slowly and steadily come off.  The steadily is the crucial word here.  Don't play w/ your health trying to lose weight fast.
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I say enjoy it while it lasts, but either weight gain or weight loss is truly all math.  If you intake more calories than you expend, you will gain weight.  If you expend more calories than you intake, you will lose weight.  If the two are relatively equal (since the chance of them being perfectly equal is very remote), you will maintain your weight.\n\nThe problem is that caloric expenditure is nearly impossible, if not impossible, to define.  Caloric intake, however, is not.\n\nTherefore, the best thing to do is the exact same thing that heavier people who are trying to lose weight should be doing:  write everything you eat, including the caloric value, down.\n\nWeight changes are more about what you do over time than immediately, so my suggestion is that if you eat about 3,000 calories per day for a week and don't gain any weight, try 3,500 each day the next week and so on.\n\nAs for what to eat, I would still suggest relatively low fat (with fat calories being 10%-20% of total caloric intake), staying away from sugar, and eating whole foods (whole wheat, etc), lean proteins, vegetables, and fruits.  Remember to drink at least 64 ounces of water per day!
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losing 10 kilos in ten days is very very dangerous and unhealthy for anybody.  think about this:  a regular person consumes an average of 1500-1800 calories a day, and in order to lose 1 pound, you have to burn off twice that much calories.  in order for the body systems to function properly, you need a daily calorie intake of at least 1000 calories, and to burn 3000 calories in a day, you have to do about 6 hours of exercises.\n\nplease do not do this, it is very very dangerous to your health.  you'll be jeopardizing a lot more if you force yourself to do that.