First off, how many calories should I be consuming?
I'm 5"7, 156 pounds, and am trying to lose up to 15 pounds within an 8 week time frame.
Second,
how do I determine how many calories are in something as I'm preparing to eat it? I'm very confused about the entire "calorie" thing. I don't even understand what exactly a calorie is.
Help? Any input is appreciated.
Answer:
Hello there, sorry "squeakyanimal" (the answer on top), a calory in fact is the amount of energy needed to heat 1g of water in 1 degree Celsius...For example, to raise 1 gram of water from 29潞C to 30潞C...Yet, what we use as "calory" is in fact KiloCalory, which means Kilo (1000 in greek) times one calory, therefore what we refer to as "calory" accounts for 1000 calories actually. A healthy diet for women is one of about 1500 "calories" as we call them - see above.
Go no lower than 1200 a day. A calorie is a the amount of energy needed to burn 1 gram of water (1 calorie). It's a unit of energy. To count calories, look at the nutrition facts lable. It will have the name calories and a number. This is the amount of calories the product has for a SERVING SIZE.
Read the package and measure your food accordingly. Also there is a free calorie database online, it has everything..check it out.
Calorie is defined as technically how much "energy" a product is. It can come from three different sources, protein, carbohydrates, and fats. If you want to lose weight a rough calculation is your body weight x 10 is what you should be consuming. But you seem to want a little faster weight loss so lets say 1400-1500 calories.
Most processed items have nutritional facts on them but if your opting for a more healthy approach you have to know how much calories an in items like a chicken breast, eggs, fruits, and vegetables. I'm trying to gain weight so I have to watch my caloric intake to so I usehttp://www.thecaloriecounter.com/...It's great for finding out the number of calories, carbs, protein, and fat everyday items have. Understand that when you dieting you still need to consume some fats to fuel your body but make them healthy ones such as the ones from eggs, nuts, beans, olive oil, flax seed oil, and fish oil.
read the information on the back of the product. It will have a chart listing carbs, calories, fats etc. Before reading that though make sure that you look in the top right corner and see what a serving size is. Often times what might be perceived as one serving may actually be 2. For example a bottle of soda may be 2 servings and not 1 so be aware of that.
Buy the latest edition of "The Complete Book of Food Counts" by Corinne T. Netzer. It has a calorie count for almost every food there is!
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