If you do exercise that is not accounted for in your background activity level, you should add the extra calories burned to your calorie allowance for that day. These calculations exclude extra calories for specific periods of exercise. Background Activity Level:īackground activity level is your average level of day-to-day activity.
The man is 38, is 5'10 and weighs 14 stone 7lbs. In this chart the woman is age 30, 5'4 tall and weighs 13 stone 3lbs. But this doesn't happen when you are losing weight at a maximum 2lbs a week.Īs you can see from the chart, it's just that you naturally need fewer calories at a lower weight. People sometimes blame some variation of 'starvation mode' when the number of calories needed to maintain their 2lb a week weight loss goes down. The number of calories required for you to lose weight gets lower as your weight goes down.
The men's chart is based on a moderately sedentary 35 year old man of 5'9 tall. You can use the lose a stone calulator to see an estimate of how long it would take for you to lose a stone, based on your gender, current weight and height. *1100 calories per day is the minimum recommended by wlr for maintaining a healthy diet with sufficient nutrients and variety of foods. This table is based on a 30 year old woman who is moderately sedentary and 5'5 in height. Your Starting weight has a big impact on the how many calories you can eat to lose weight. This is because men have more muscle than women - and muscle burns calories even while you are asleep. The simple fact is that men burn more calories than women, even when all other factors are the same. These calculations are for a man and a woman of the same age (40), weight (13 stone), height (5'6) and background activity level (moderately sedentary), to lose a pound, one and a half pounds or 2 pounds a week. How quickly you want to lose weight (or how hard you want to make it!)Įach of these 6 are explained below, along with charts showing the calories needed for weight loss at different rates, so you can work out a ball-park figure for yourself.The number of calories you can eat to lose weight depends on 6 factors:
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