What is a balanced diet for losing weight and good health?
By Rudy Silva If you want to lose weight then knowing how many calories you eat and burn will be important. Here are some guidelines you can use. The total calories that you should be consuming depend on whether you are a women or a man. It depends on your body structure and your activity level. So you need to make some adjustment on the numbers I present. If you have been eating around 1800 calories per day you can slowly move your intake down to 1600. Work down from this level over a month’s period to 1400 calories. Don’t go below 1200 calories per day. Otherwise you can over stress your body. If you have just started out and are eating 2400 calories, decrease your calories to 2000 or 2100. If you don’t lose weight in 2-3 weeks reduce your calories lower. Over a month’s time you can move down to 1600 calories and see if you start to lose weight. If you do, stay at this level. It’s not a good idea to make a drastic shift in your consumption of food since your body can react and get in
