How many calories?

1200 is the very bottom line for calorie intake and only while losing excess weight. The thing is that eating less will only work for a short time. Your body will quickly adapt to the reduced calorie intake and slow down your metabolism to conserve fat...so you *must* exercise to continue to lose weight. Combine the 1200 calories a day with 30 to 40 minutes exercise (sweat) a day should have a person losing anywhere from 1 to 3 pounds a week...have a look at the link...good luck

Well technically that is not true because I have been doing about that in Biology Lately and an average woman needs to consume 2000 cals per day and 1200 is starving yourself, however if you do no exercise whatsoever you might gain weight as the body stores all of the energy that has not been used as fat or Triglyceride(3 glycerol or fat cells fused together) but a balance diet is when you eat 2000 calories and burn off or exercise to use up the same amount of energy.

Sooooooooo what you should do is eat 2000 cals per day and use up a bit more than that and slowly but very surely that belly will soon disappear.

See ya

I am a member of the website CalorieCounter.com and they have said that 1200 is the minimum a women of 135 pounds should eat every day to lose weight. But truthfully, if you eat everything in moderation and exercise regularly you WILL lose weight. I have lost 10 pounds in the last month by cutting my calories to 1300 and exercising 5 days a week for 90 minutes each day. I am 23 and have never felt better. But in those calories, I still eat chocolate, white bread etc ... just not as much as I used to. Good luck!

It depends on your height, weight, age, and physical activity. Go to Yahoo or Google. Type in calorie calculator. This will ask for all that info and calculate how many calories you need to consume to maintain your current weight. Decrease that number by 500 calories. Have your calories made up of 20% fats, 50% Carbs, and 30% Proteins.

If you eat too few calories you will lose muscle mass before fat. With this diet you will maintain your muscle and lose fat.

Just eat a balanced diet and don't go nuts about couunting calories. Stay away from fast food. Get some good exercise every day.

Take a multiple vitamin and check on line for some recommendations . Depends on if you are a large or tiny framed person. And where are you starting? Are you already very overweight or are you about right?

You heard correctly -- anything less than 1,200 calories a day and you risk sending your body into starvation mode. When that happens, your body greedily hangs on to every last bit of body fat that you have and begins to metabolize the tissue that requires the most energy to maintain: MUSCLE: Oh, did I mention starvation mode slows your metabolism way down as well? Don't ever go below 1,200 calories a day, and if you're exercising to help with the weight loss you shouldn't go under 1,400 calories a day.

I'm sure there are calculators online where you could find the answer. It's speciic to your age and weight.

It's true that less is always more if you're talking about short term. Just don't go crazy with like, a 300 calorie a day plan because that could ruin your metabolism (up to years!). About the calculator, just google calorie calculator, and put in "weight", "age".

On average, 1400 is the minimum you need to eat to even stay alive for a good period of time. Factor in exercise and you should be adding 100-500 calories to your meals.

Hope that helps!

That is what I have read as well.

This site is pretty cool for tabulating the calories of what you have eaten for the day, and telling you how many to consume to loose x amount of weight.

http://www.thedailyplate.com/

1200 is the lowest you should ever consume.

You'd be more succesful longterm with 1500 cals a day.

Then increase gradually.