How To Count Calories To Lose Weight

In this post, I want to explain to you how you can count calories to lose weight. It's pretty simple math, and a lot of weight can be lost using this method. I personally lost 25 lbs in the past from this method.

What Is a Pound?

The first thing you need to understand is how the math works. One pound of fat on your body is equal to 3,500 calories. What this means is that you will need a deficit of 3,500 calories in order to burn 1 pound. The deficit can be created by eating less food, by increasing your activity/exercise, or a combination of both.

Diet and how much you eat plays a big role in losing fat. Cutting back on how much you eat is a big part of losing weight with counting calories.

Daily Caloric Needs

In order to lose weight using this method, you need to know your daily caloric needs. This number is how many calories your body burns every single day. It is determined by your age, weight, height, and activity level.

You can make this easy by using an online calculator. You just plug in the numbers and it will tell you how many calories you need every day. Click on that link to go to the calorie calculator and find out your number.

Once you know that number, you can subtract 500 calories and eat that amount each day. So if your daily caloric needs is 2,000 calories you would eat 1,500 every day. Alternatively, you can follow what they tell you at the bottom of the calculator. They have a number for "fat loss" and "extreme fat loss". That is how many calories you would eat to lose weight.

Fit Bit

Something that is said to be way more accurate is a Fit Bit. It's a watch that you place on your wrist that tells you how many calories you burn every day. Many people that are trying to lose weight with calorie counting will use a fit bit for accuracy. You don't have to get one though in order to be successful with weight loss. I'm just letting people know that it exists in case they would like to get one.

How To Count Calories

Now you need to know how to count calories. Counting calories is pretty easy. You would look at the nutrition label of your food, determine how many servings you are eating, and then see how many calories are in a serving.

So let's say you are eating some chips and 23 chips is a serving. You count out 23 chips. The back says one serving is 250 calories. So 23 chips will be 250 calories that you need to log.

If you want even more accuracy, you can buy a food scale and measure all your food. You would look and see how many grams is one serving and then measure out your food portions. It's not absolutely necessary, but can be helpful if you are having trouble with getting the servings correctly.

Apps

There are apps you can get that actually make this whole process easier. They help you track your calories each day. Just search on your phone for "calorie counting apps" and you will see many options. Try a few out until you find one you like.

There are some apps that let you track your water intake. There are some that let you scan the barcode on your food so that they calculate your calories for you. It just makes it easier to track your progress. You can even put in your starting weight and watch as you lose weight.

So I hope this article has been informative in how to count calories to lose weight. Thank you for reading.