Calorie intake

When talking about calorie intake, it refers to how many calories you should be consuming on a daily basis. Although recommended amount varies between individuals, here we provide you with some rough guidelines for how to estimate what your calorie intake should be. In general, men need more than women and those with an active lifestyle burn up more than those who are more sedentary. Other variables to take into account are your height and current weight as well as your overall body composition. Age is also an important factor as your metabolic rate may change over the course of your lifetime. According to the British Department of Health, women need an average of 1940 compared to 2550 for men per day. This is calculated using EAR (Estimated Average Requirements) and is based on the assumption that most people in the UK do not lead particularly active lifestyles. If you are an athlete or exercising heavily, you may need to adjust your diet accordingly.

How much you eat does have a direct impact on your weight. It is however obviously important to consider what kinds of foods you are eating as the amount contained in a lettuce leaf is considerably less than those in a cream cake! Cutting approximately five hundred calories per day from your diet should lead to you losing roughly one pound per week. While cutting back on consumption is an effective way of losing unwanted pounds, particularly in the short term, this should ultimately be done as part of a healthy balanced diet. Just starving yourself for short periods of time is likely to teach your body to hold on to fat rather than promoting efficient digestion and burning up of calories. It's important to know how much you should be consuming so that you keep within the limits of what's healthy for you as an individual.