To lose weight, you need to eat fewer calories than you expend over time. Thus, learning how many calories you “burn” every day is one of the most important steps you can take to lose weight. Use this calculator to estimate how many calories you burn and how many you should eat every day to lose weight.
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If you don’t know your body fat percentage, the Mifflin-St Jeor calorie calculator equation tends to produce the most accurate results. If you know your body fat percentage, the Katch-McArdle equation is the most accurate BMR equation. The Harris-Benedict equation isn’t as accurate as the previous two, but we provided it because it’s a well-known and popular formula.
The three calorie-tracking apps I recommend are MyFitnessPal, MyMacros+, and Cronometer. Each one is easy to navigate, highly customizable, and has a huge food database that makes logging everything you eat quick and simple.
There are several potential culprits for a lack of weight loss, with the most common ones being:
The easiest way to curb hunger when cutting is to make some simple changes to your diet. Assuming you’re eating plenty of protein, the following tips can help you control your appetite:
Not necessarily, but you do need to maintain a calorie deficit to lose weight, and counting calories is an effective way to do this.
That said, most people find that counting calories on the fly (usually by entering the foods they eat throughout the day into a calorie tracking app) becomes a burden. You inevitably waste time debating over what to eat and working out how much you can eat and you increase the likelihood of mistakes, like forgetting to log every calorie or mistakenly logging more or less than you actually ate.
Two alternative methods for controlling calories are intuitive eating and meal planning.
Intuitive eating can work well for maintaining your body composition if you’re already following a fairly healthy diet, but it doesn’t work as well for losing weight or establishing healthy eating habits.
Meal planning tends to be the best approach, as it’s just as effective for controlling your calorie intake as calorie counting (and more effective than intuitive eating), but requires less time, energy, and attention and thus tends to be more enjoyable and sustainable.
The first thing you’ll need is a food scale so you can weigh the foods you eat.
While eyeballing portions is better than nothing, it’s too easy to mess up, and especially when you’re aiming for a moderate, relatively small calorie deficit.
From there, you can use a food database like SELF Nutrition DATA, the USDA Food Composition Database, CalorieKing, or an app like MyFitnessPal, MyMacros+, or Cronometer to create and follow a proper meal plan that ensures you can hit your calorie and macro targets eating the foods you like.
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