Just curious, but if you have to eat to lose weight, do you really lose weight? Obviously you need to eat less but why do they say to eat at a certain caloric intake?
I am trying to lose weight and I was informed that I need to take in 1001 calories a day. I ate 768 calories and burned 587 calories at the gym. Either way, I ate more than I burned. Can I still loose weight.
I am 5′5 145.
the whole point is to slow your metabilism down, so you eat reguarly but the foods you are consuming are LOW FAT not high in calories, anything high in calories takes longer to break down and digest cuasing you to gain weight and fat. the excersize helps build muscles
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March 24th, 2010 - 9:59 am
the whole point is to slow your metabilism down, so you eat reguarly but the foods you are consuming are LOW FAT not high in calories, anything high in calories takes longer to break down and digest cuasing you to gain weight and fat. the excersize helps build muscles
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March 24th, 2010 - 11:28 am
Dang thats a really small at of calories. You should eat at least 1200 cals per day. But yea, to address the 2nd part of the question, there is this thing called your BMR which is the amount of calories that you burn by simply living. You can Google a BMR calculator. Add your BMR to the amount of cals you burn by working out, and when you have this number, just make sure that the amount of calories that you consume is at least 500 calories less. This way, you will FOR SURE lose at least a lb a week.(At the absolute least!!! But it’ll prob be way more in your case) So yea…it’s fairly simple. Also drink a crapload of water because it’ll help flush out the fat that youre burning
Good luck. If you do this, you wont have to be restricted to a diet and will definately get results. 
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