Calculating

Ambrogio1

If you are suppose to eat 3000 caloires a day to lose 1 lb per week. How do I figure out if I eat 2400 cals what I should lose?
I know there is a formula and wondered what it was


Thanks
MF

gupton11

1lb of fat = roughly 3500 calories.

gupton11

SO you would need a calorie deficit of 500 a day per pound of fat you would like to lose.

amuhlou

if 3000/day is 1lb per week, that means you are already incurring a 500 calorie deficit per day (500x7 days = 3500 calories = 1lb).

2400/day would be 600 more calories of deficit on top of the 500, or an 1100 calorie total deficit each day.

1100x7 = 7700 cal/week deficit

7700 / 3500 cal in a pound and you get 2.2lb per week

Ambrogio1

Thank you