1,500 calories a day
1500 calories
How many calories should you eat per day if you are 5'1 and weight 150 pounds and are trying to lose weight?
1200 calories per day
One should eliminate about 500 calories per day to lose 1 pound each week.
You can't lose weight by guessing. You will need to know how many calories you need per day by the amount of exercise you do. The average person burns 2000 calories per day. In order to maintain homeostasis within the body, your intake of calories should match how many calories you burn.
There are 3500 calories in one pound. Cutting 500 calories a day would make you lose one pound each week.
You should probably eat around 1500 calories. For women, we are supposed to consume 2000-2500 calories a day.
3,500 calories = 1 pound of body fat
About 1500 calories
This depends on your metabolism, and how much weight you want to lose, or not lose.
if you do that, you will die. your body needs aleast 1200 calories a day in order to keep your matabolism up. if you eat less then that your matabolism will slow down and you will gain weight. there are tons of websites that you can enter your weight and your goal weight into and it will tell you how many calories you should eat a day and how many you should try to lose.