How many calories needed per day to maintain my current weight?

The amount of calories needed per day to maintain your current weight should be calculated using your lean body mass.

This formula will help you to calculate your TDEE (total daily energy expenditure).

Maintaining your weight by consuming your daily maintenance calorie amount and using exercise like cardio and weight training to burn unwanted body fat is the ultimate long term weight loss approach.

There is nothing that works more effectively, and if you think about it you will understand that this is completely logical.

Your body needs a certain amount of calories (energy) to function properly, and when you do not consume these calories your organism will start to use mechanisms to get you to eat more.

This is what happens with all the approaches that attempt to use low calories intakes to create weight loss results.

The statistics confirm that more than 95% of the people that try to lose weight using a diet, eventually gain all the weight back.

Yes, in the short term there is weight loss, and most of it is water and muscle, and not body fat.

In fact up to 75% of the weight that you lose with a low calorie approach is water and muscle and only 25% is body fat.

What happens eventually is the loss of muscle slows down your metabolism and the loss of water slows down the fat burning process in your organism.

It is always a matter of time that you quit a low calorie diet and go back to eating normal amounts of food.

But since your metabolism has slowed down, what was once maintenance has become a calorie surplus, and you will not only gain back what you lost but a few pounds of body fat on top of that.

This is why it makes sense to find out how many calories needed per day to maintain your current weight, and then make sure you eat this amount on a daily basis.

And if you want to lose weight use exercise to burn unwanted body fat.

This might take longer, but you will be one of the few that reaches ideal body weight, and will be able to maintain it for life.

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