How many calories should a woman eat to lose weight

The recommended calorie intake, or TDEE (Total Daily Energy Expenditure), depends on many factors. They are quite easy to measure, and you (hopefully) already know some: your age, height, weight, and sex.

There are others, like the level of your physical activity, which are more qualitative than quantitative, but it's still possible to measure and classify them.

Calorie calculator

Other ones, like your metabolism or overall health, are very difficult to estimate. That's why, even though our calorie calculator takes into account most factors that influence the number of calories you need every day, it may not give results that are 100% accurate.

Consider it more of a guideline than a rigorous directive.

For example, a 40-year-old man who has a physical job (equivalent to exercising six days a week) and has the average American height (5 ft 9 in) and weight (194.7 lbs) should ingest 3567 calories a day.

On the other hand, his daughter, an average 18-year-old girl (5 ft 4 in, 117 lbs) who exercises once a week only, needs only 1814 calories a day – over a thousand calories less tha

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