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How To Determine How Many Calories You Should Remove From Your Diet

All people are not made equal. This is a simple fact, but if you were to look at the majority of diets you would seem to find proof otherwise. Too many diets recommend the same things for everybody, thinking that the same numbers apply to us all. While the same principles apply to everybody, you can't simply say that everybody should reduce their caloric intake by 500 calories and expect that to work. In today's article we're going to take a look at what people should be doing when it comes to caloric restrictions, and what basic guidelines you should be following to optimize your dieting.

The smartest method to lose weight is to reduce the number of calories from the amount required for you to maintain your weight. Everybody has a number that reflects how many calories they need to consume in order to lose weight given their level of exercise, how active they are throughout the day, and what their sex, age, and current weight is. This number should be the baseline from which you deduct your caloric amount.

Why is this so? Think about it this way: a young, slender woman, let's imagine a gorgeous redhead, might only need about 1,600 calories per day, while a massive brute of a man, let's imagine a bulky wrestler, might easily consume 3,500 calories per day. Now, if you were to tell them both that they need to simply reduce their caloric intake by 800 calories, that gorgeous redhead would suddenly be starving, restricted as she was to 800 calories, while that wrestler would be still doing alright with a 2,700 calories per day.

That's why when you are trying to figure out how much you should eat you should be sure to take into account a number of important factors. These factors might range from how old you are, how much you weigh, your sex, your current activity level, how much weight you want to lose and how much exercise you plan on doing. It's only once you've taken all of these factors into account that you can actually determine a correct number that has been personalized to your own situation and make an accurate deduction from your current total caloric intake.

Any diet that recommends that you do otherwise should be quickly abandoned for one that recommends a personalized formula that will allow you to figure out your proper caloric intake.




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