Have you ever wondered how many calories you should eat in order to lose weight? Well, the answer is, not too many and not too few… But the most important factor in my opinion is the quality of the calories you consume. You could eat 2,500 calories from soda, doughnuts, chips and hamburgers if you like… But that wouldn’t give you any nutritional value at all.
Instead of “counting calories” and wondering how many I should eat to lose weight a good idea is to eat as natural and “clean” as possible. What I mean by this is that there are very few who get “really fat” (I’m from Sweden so I see this here) from good natural food. The people here are considerably smaller than the average American.
We eat a lot differently, not necissarily less food in volume, but the quality of the food is much, much better. Not too much sugar in the food. Whole grain. Fruits, vegetables. We are raised on that stuff. Only in recent years have we gotten bigger, by introducing Hamburgers, fast food pizzza, kebabs, french fries, soda and things like that.
Our portions are considerably smaller than a typical american meal. This is how most people can keep their bodies healthy and fit without much exercise. I suggest adding exercise for obvious health reasons, but to answer the “how many calories should I eat per day in order to lose fat” varies from person to person. Instead of worrying about it too much I would focus on making the better food choice…
Remove sugar, fried foods (french fries), Hamburgers, pizza, really fatty nacho plates, big steaks that are ridiculously large… All you can eat places etc.
Cook your food at home with as much natural ingredients as possible, such as vegetables, herbs, lean protein, potato, brown rice, whole wheat breads, milk, low fat cheese, olive oil, fish etc.
Eat smaller portions of this kind of food more often and you do not have to worry about gaining weight too much, but to get a good idea of how many calories a person should consume, is around 2,000-2,500 calories. This is recommended depedning on how large a person is. The bigger the more he needs to eat, obviously. You can calculate how many calories you should eat by using a calorie calculator such as the one on shapefit.com…Click here to visit the calorie calculator.