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Surely you'll lose weight to some point, but might I stress where you'll lose it? I've fought with my eating habits for practically my whole life. I've tried staying at or under 500 calories a day, and eaten way more than I should have a times. 500 calories a day isn't going to get you anywhere in the long run because your metabolism will slow down, you'll feel starved, and when you do lose weight you'll be losing muscle. All you need to do is exercise (I do 6 days a week), and eat healthy. Personally my calorie range is 1300 to 1500 for losing weight. I can lose a couple pounds every week that I maintain that. Let me put all of this in to a basic perspective for you... in the long run MORE calories equals long time weight loss, and a trimmed, slim athletic body. 500 calories is going to leave you with flab, and no definition. I hope this helps to answer your question, and you choose the option that makes the most common sense. :D
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∙ 11y ago500 calories a day is a VERY small amount. Even with a slow metabolism, you would need to be exercising to burn off the calories. Certain foods can also boost your metabolism (this is a belief, and some still disagree with it.) Other things to help your metabolism are spicy foods or ice cold water. This will allow you to eat more of a healthy diet. (i.e. - more than 500 calories a day.) Either way, exercise is key to burn calories to lose weight.
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∙ 11y ago500 cal isn't much, most people lose more than at sheer baseline existence. Losing 500 cals MORE than usually is a good step towards weight loss, but it still relies on how many calories you're eating. If you're overeating with 700 cals then losing 500 will only slow your gain down.
First step in any weight loss attempt is to control your intake, then think about exercise.
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∙ 11y agoUnless you are a very small child who is inactive, you will not gain weight by limiting yourself to 500 calories daily or less. However, you may not lose weight either because that would put your body in starvation mode which would lower your metabolism so that you stay alive. Starvation is not a healthy or effective diet.
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∙ 11y agoEating only 500 calories a day is very unhealthy eat at least 1000 and work out
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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 do you lose weight in a week with exercise?
To lose a pound you need to burn 3500 calories if you want to burn a pound a week then just run off 500 calories per day
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.
Is it possible to lose weight without being on a diet?
Yes, it is possible to lose weight without being on a diet. To lose weight, you must use more calories then you consume, generally 500 calories to lose 2 pounds a week. Staying active will burn more calories.
How many calories to burn to lose a pound?
If you want to lose a pound of fat and not water weight, it takes 3500 calories. So it takes 7 days of having a 500 calorie deficit to lose a pound of fat.
How many calories one has to burn to lose on kg of body weight?
to get a Kg down you need to burn 7700 calories, seems like alot, but if u eat less and exercise more you will lose it soon enough. A 50 minutes on an average speed of 6 kms per hour you would burn around 500 calories
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 calories do you have to burn to lose a pound?
You need to lose or burn 3,500 calories to lose one pound of body fat.A pound of body fat contains around 3500 calories, so reducing your calorie intake by 500 per day should result in a 1lb a week reduction.If you are aiming to lose more than one pound per week, you need to engage in cardio exercise in addition to counting calories. Cardio exercise, such as walking, jogging, cross-country skiing, etc., will significantly produce weight loss.
If you eat 500 calories a day can you lose weight?
of course, not healthy though
If you are 5' 5 and weigh 130 pounds how do you lose 10 pounds?
In order to lose weight you should create a calorie deficit. In order to lose 1 pound a week you should cut 500 calories a day from your diet or burn this amount of extra calories a day.
Are there ways other than exercise to burn fat and if so what are they?
To burn fat you have to burn calories. Even though losing weight is hard the method is easy to understand; you must consume less calories than you burn in a day, but you still have to feed your body. If you want to lose weight try cutting out 500 calories a day.
How many calories does it take to lose weight at the rate of 1 lb. per week?
To lose one pound a week, you need to consumer 3500 calories a week fewer than you burn. You can do this by creating a calorie deficit of 500 per day. 500 x 7 = 3500 and that's a pound.
