Weight Loss Tip: How to Predict Your Weight Loss

Did you know that if you ate 3,500 fewer calories than the calories needed to maintain your weight you would lose one pound? So over the course of a week if you ate 500 calories fewer each day, you would lose a pound a week.

Ah, but how do you know how many calories you would have to consume to maintain your current weight? That’s simple, head on over to Calorie Control Council’s website, and use their handy calculator for men or their calculator for women to figure it out.

For example the calculator shows I need roughly 3,400 calories a day to maintain my weight. Since I’ve been eating healthily I have been consuming around 1,700 calories, on average. That’s 1,700 calories under the amount needed to maintain my current weight. Divide that by 500 and it shows that I should be losing around 3 pounds a week, which coincidentally, is right around the amount of weight that I have been losing.