How many calories should you eat?

How many calories one should eat depends on a lot of factors. There is no base figure of calories an average person should eat, because there is no average person in this world. Everyone is different in their needs and their body types and they need different amounts of calories depending on that.

You shouldn't just think that you need 1500 calories a day since this is the number a lot of people use in their blogs and websites as a base figure. Howver these people are not nutritionists or diet specialists. These people are just trying to advertise diet programs to make some $cash. It is sad that people copy paste material from an un researched blog/website and paste it to their website and we get millions of webpages that supply the wrong information.

Well then how could you determine the calories you need? In general you can use an easy 5 second quick calculation which is to multiply your weight in kilograms by 25.

For example: (Your weight=100) x 25= 2500 calories. A 100kg person needs 2500 calories a day to maintain their weight. However 100kg is considered to be a lot of weight and as long as you are tall or muscular it is fine for you to eat 2500 calories a day if you weight 100kg. But if you carry a lot of fat with you and your bones don't weigh much and all the weight is your fat then you may not eat 2500 calories a day. Usually a person needs to eat 200 less calories than they are supposed to, for losing some weight. Which means to lose a pound/week you should eat 2300 calories a day only.

But the things get more complicated. There are calories from fat, and there are calories from proteins, vitamins, and other nutritious foods. Make sure most of your calories come from the nutritious foods and not from burgers, pizza, cheese, fries, etc. The calories from fat will result in fat in your body. Which means basically your body will store the food as fat, but if you eat healthy foods and get "healthy" calories then your body will use up that food to build muscle, make immune system stronger and make you full.

Concluding this article I suggest you use the calculation method I provided, and try to eat healthy foods and get the calories that are good for you. Many people consider all calories same but they are not. If you need 1500 calories but you eat 1600 calories but all from fast food then you are kind of eating 3200 calories a day since it is fat it is doubled.