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you can have 2 slices of calcium enriched Wonder bread, one packet of weight control oatmeal, a granola bar and one Weight Watchers mozarella stick. That's 500 calories. If you have anymore room in your stomach, the good news is you can drink all the diet Coke you want.
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You used to eat under 500 calories a day you have now upped it to 1000 calories a day will you still lose weight or will you get fatter?
500 calories is close to starvation, 1000calories would be better for your health and it is unlikely to cause weight gain. 1500 calories would be better still for your health.
Is a 500 calorie diet really safe?
No a 500 calories diet is not that really that safe as most doctor's say that a person needs at least 1200 calories a day. And after you go off this diet you will over eat and gain the weight back and more weight.
Do you need to burn all your calories to lose weight?
Your body needs calories to survive. To lose weight, cut your daily intake of calories by 500 and exercise for an hour 5-6 days a week. Ingesting more calories will not help you lose weight.
If a person ate 500 calories a day more than burned how much would theu gain in a week?
around a pound a week 3500 calories equals a pound of body weight
Will you lose weight if you eat 500 calories a day but burn 2000 calories?
if you do that, you will die. your body needs aleast 1200 calories a day in order to keep your matabolism up. if you eat less then that your matabolism will slow down and you will gain weight. there are tons of websites that you can enter your weight and your goal weight into and it will tell you how many calories you should eat a day and how many you should try to lose.
How many calorie make one pound?
If you calculate your BMR this will tell you how many calories your body needs a day to maintain its weight. If you then consume 500 extra calories a day for a full week you should gain around a pound in weight. So I would say the answer is 3500 calories.
When you eat 2400 calories a day how many more calories are needed to gain a pound?
Add 500 calories per day to gain 1 pound per week.
How fast can you lose weight by eating 500 calories or less per day?
If you eat 500 calories a day, or less, you may be condsidered anorexic. That is completely un-healthy and even if you were to lose weight, you would instantly gain it back once you ate regular again...and you would have to eventually eat regular again if you want to live, because eating 500 calories or less is starving yourself to death.
If you eat 500 calories less each day how much weight will you loose in a week?
You wont lost any weight in order to lose weight you have to burn the calories you consumed plus more. There are 3500 calories per pound. In order to lose weight you would have to lose the 500 calories you consumed each day, and considering the fact you eat 500 calories per day you would have to times 500 by 7 and that equals 3500 calories In order to lose a pound in a week you would have to burn 7000 calories per week.
How many excess calories a day to make a fourteen year old gain weight?
Ahh I remember being 14 and doing this...and now at 16 years old I can help ya. Usually 500-1000 calories extra because if you are looking to gain weight, you could lift weights than eat good protein or a protein shake and add extra calories that way to your body. But also it depends on your weight, so just know that you want to eat not too much extra calories and eat lots of protein based foods like chicken etc.
If there are 3500 calories in a pound of fat how long would it take a person to gain a pound of fat who burns 500 less calories than they consume per week?
It would take 7 weeks. Though when trying to gain weight the same principles tend to apply as losing it. I.E. Try to gain about a pound a week.
How many calories should you eat a day if your a male 6'1 who weight 408 pounds how many calories a day should i eat to lose weight?
It is going to depend on you age and the is just an estimate but to maintain your current weight with little or no exercise you would need to consume roughly 3400 calories. To lose weight you would reduce you caloric intake from 500 but not exceeding 1000 calories for health reasons. Adding in a half hour of exercise per day such as just walking would greatly help in the burning of those calories also. there is 3500 calories in a pound of body weight. So if you reduced you caloric intake by 500 calories over the course of a week you would lose 1 pound. (500 calories per day)X(7 days)=3500 calories. The idea is just to burn more than you consume. There are various calorie calculators on the internet that will help you pinpoint your daily caloric intake
