Calorie Needs to Lose Weight

To lose weight, you should strive to keep muscle while burning fat and the best way to burn fat is through good diet and exercise. But how many calories does it take to burn fat? There is 3500 calories in 1 pound of fat, so you need to burn 3500 calories.

Most women can burn 1 pound of fat each week by staying on 1200 to 1300 calorie a day diet. Men should eat 1600 to 1800 calories to burn one pound of fat. Also, spread these calories over 5 to 6 meals.  That means eating 200 to 300 calories per meal.

Add daily aerobic exercise and you will burn fat even faster. One of the best fat burning exercise is stationary biking that uses a back support. You can burn over 300 calories in 30 minutes on stationary biking pedaling at a moderate pace or try fast pace walking. You can burn 200 calories with a fast pace walk.

Combine diet and exercise to burn fat and make it a daily life-style. Add fat burning foods like berries, apples and high fiber vegetables to increase your fat burn.

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