CALORIE CALCULATOR
What are Calories?
A calorie is a unit that measures energy. Calories are usually used to measure the energy content of foods and beverages. In order to lose weight, you need to eat fewer calories than your body burns each day.
How to Reduce Calorie Intake Without Starving Yourself?
Calories are simply a measure of energy.
It is known that in order to gain weight, more calories need to be entering your body than leaving it.
Conversely, if more calories leave your body than enter it, then you lose weight.
That being said, just cutting calories without regards to the foods you eat is usually not a sustainable way to lose weight.
Although it works for some people, the majority of people end up hungry and eventually give up on their diet.
For this reason, it is highly recommended to make a few other permanent changes to help you maintain a calorie deficit in the long term, without feeling starved.
Below are some tips that will definitely help you in sustainably reduce calorie intake:
- Eating More Protein can help reduce appetite, it can cut bring down your cravings by 60% and increase the amount of Calories you Burn.
- Avoiding sugary soft Drinks (and Fruit Juices) can go a long way in weight loss. The most fattening items in the modern diet.
- Drink water often. Do not wait till your thirsty! Drinking more water helps with weight loss
- Do some exercise and lift weights.
- A lot of our Nigerian dishes are basically carbs. Reducing carbohydrate intake, especially refined carbs and sugars have great effect when it comes to weight loss.
Enter your details in the calorie calculator below to find out the amount of calories you should be taking in a day, to achieve your weight goal.
NOTE:
It is important to remember that proper diet and exercise is largely accepted as the best way to lose weight. It is inadvisable to lower calorie intake by more than 1,000 calories per day, as losing more than 2 pounds per week can be unhealthy, and can result in the opposite effect in the near future by reducing metabolism. When exercising in conjunction with dieting, maintaining a good diet is important, since the body needs to be able to support its metabolic processes and replenish itself. Depriving the body of nutrients it requires as part of heavily unhealthy diets can have serious detrimental effects, and weight lost in this manner has been shown in some studies to be unsustainable, since the weight is often regained in the form of fat (putting the participant in a worse state than when beginning the diet). As such, in addition to monitoring calorie intake, it is important to maintain levels of fiber intake as well other nutritional necessities to balance the needs of the body.