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Eat the Perfect Amount - Establishing a New Normal

How to Lose Weight We start by finding our personal maintenance number of calories. This is how many calories we can eat and not gain or lose weight . We  simply maintain .  Unfortunately, finding the magic number is a bit of a guess combined with trial and error .  It may take   a few weeks  to pen down this number, but it is worth it because with this number,  losing weight becomes simple math .  Without it we'll just be hungry and grumpy without results.   As a starting point a woman might  consider  1800 as a maintenance number of calories .  A man might need  2000  calories   daily.   To lose one pound a week, eat  about  500 fewer calories daily  than you need to maintain. I maintain at 1800 calories a day so to lose weight, I eat 1300 daily.   Once we have our  starting number of calories, space them   throughout  the day ,  so we  don’t  run out ...