cal intake per meal?

[Dana]

Anyone got a good link that breaks it down?

I was curious as I shouldn't have had that extra peice of bread this morning when i made egg beater french toast LOL

 

[pjbleek]

2000-2200 per day and you figure every meal to be between 500. go to the weight watchers website they break it down even further if need be

 

[porterjack]

it varies totally based on a lot of things, who you are ie,e age weight gender and of course how much daily exercise you get

i.e a bed ridden patient in hospital needs maybe 1000 cals, same guy out of hospital needs maybe 2000

 

[Dana]

Alright well based on your post PJ I'm within my safe zone.

 

[pjbleek]

Alright well based on your post PJ I'm within my safe zone.

when I first joined weight watchers they told me to stay within that zone, and as you lose the 2000 number comes into play. once you get to another level then it goes to 1700, but that would have meant I lost nearly 120 lbs. Weight watchers makes you write everything out (I think you said you were doing this) and I was just too damn lazy to do that. also seeing a nutritionist helps out too. she was more of a psychologist than anything else

 

[sexysadie]

Are you trying to lose weight Dana or just maintain it?

 

[Dana]

lose...

 

[Kyle B]

Dana, just google calorie calculator and you should find some stuff.

 

[Tim]

At 2000 a day for a typical person, you will maintain your weight, not lose weight.

First you need to know your basal metabolic rate which will tell YOU how many calories you need a day. Then you either increase that amount or reduce that amount if you want to gain or lose weight.

3500 calories = 1 pound approximately.

So if your BMR is 2000, then you would need to eat 1500 calories a day for one week to drop one pound.
-500 calories a day time 7 days = -3500 calories = -1 pound.
Or you increase your activity to burn an extra 500 calories a day (which is very difficult to do)

 

[sexysadie]

....then between 1500 and 2000 calories per day should do it. Make Breakfast or lunch your highest calorie meal of the day....

 

[Dana]

i was fine btw... I read the packaging wrong...

 

[sexysadie]

okey dokey spanokey

 

[HottyToddyChick]

As a guy, you really shouldn't drop your cals below about 1700 or so. Your body will go into starvation mode. The two theories I buy into most are grazing through out the day (or 6 smaller "meals") or eating a large breakfast and decreasing meal size throughout the day.

 

[KimmyCharmeleon]

I would make breakfast your highest calorie intake of the day, and most filling. It will help stop hunger and snacking later on in the day. My mum is losing weight, and she eats pies for breakfast and lunch when she works (every day). You just gotta watch as you get older. They say in your forties you lose muscle mass every year so it's harder to burn fat...so the extra biscuits with a cup of tea in the morning, for example, could start to show lol.

 

[Natasha]

There's a website called the Daily Plate, I believe, that's good for calorie counters. I don't know, I don't use it. Dana, there's a forum I post on besides here that is a great weight loss forum if you'd like me to PM you the link.

 

[KimmyCharmeleon]

The Daily Telegraph newspaper here once gave out these calorie counting books for every imaginable food. I thought that was handy. It helped when I was losing weight years ago.