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1500 calories a day
(please no lectures about what foods in this list you think i should or shouldn't be eating, i'm going to eat what i like, i just want to do it in the right moderation for a maintainable weight).
If I stay at or below 1500 calories a day and I work out for about 10-20 min a day 4-5 days a week (doing things like aerobics, belly dancing, yoga, running) will i lose a natural flow of weight?
(to give you an idea of what i will eat...i have some health shakes (160 calories per serving) that are like ensure where you can drink them when you are busy or to replace a meal but they have a meal supply of nutrients- 2 of those, a grilled chicken sandwich with no sauce at 400 calories, 2 ice cream sandwich bars that are 100 calories each, and a pack and a 1/2 of ramen at about 300 calories and i usually drink water but let's go ahead and add in 3- 8oz glasses of arizona iced tea at 90 calories per serving...1490 calories for the day.
i just want something regular that i can enjoy and keep up with. that is what i am doing right now. I just haven't made it totally regular yet.
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Even though you have around only 1500 calories, a lot of those calories are empty calories or bad ones.
Top ramen is really bad for you because there's a lot of salt in it, salt makes your body retain water and then you get bloated so you look bigger.
For drinks, you can cut down a lot of calories if you only drink water.
Also, two ice cream sandwich bars aren't good for you and are filled with a lot of fat, even though there only 100 calories they're the bad kinds of calories, so maybe you can find other healthier things to replace these with, like fruits, vegetables, almonds, a sandwich, or granola bar. Those are just some healthy alternatives.
www.sparkteens.com is a really good website for managing your calorie intake vs calorie out take, how much water you drink, and a lot more.
Hope I helped :)
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I don't know how you're planning to eat but less than 1200 calories sounds awfully low. If you're going to be exercising every day (honestly putting forth real effort) then you're going to need more calories than that. One of the least understood, damaging practices is starving yourself to lose weight. The exact opposite effect occurs. Starving yourself causes your body to go into fat storage mode.
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If you want to lose weight or stay at the current weight you are at multiply that by 10 and that is the amount of calories you should be consuming
for an example.. I am 119 and I want to maintain that so my formula would be
119x10=1190 calories/daily
hope this helps!
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This is the formula for calculating the amount of calories you need to consume to keep your weight at the current level:
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Don't forget to apply the activity modifier.
You need to keep your net calorie consumption below the result of that formula to lose weight. What you eat doesn't matter, as long as the total calories you eat is less than that. You can also burn calories through exercise, but the amount of calories burned through your exercise regimen is negligible - perhaps 50 calories each time. You can still apply your exercise to the activity modifier mentioned above, which should be 1.55 (moderate exercise) for your exercise regimen.
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