24/09/2021
🔹Calories Are👇
🔸units of energy you body uses to fuel its functions and activities
🔸created from proteins, fats and carbohydrates found in our foods and beverages
🔸necessary for basic body functions like keeping the heart, brain and lungs functioning (also know as basal metabolism
🔸essential to fuel activity – from the smallest hand gesture to a 5-mile run
🔸The number of calories we need each day depends on how much we weigh, how much muscle mass we have and how active we are.
🔸If you consume more calories than your body needs, those extra calories will be stored as fat.
🔸If you consume less calories than your body needs, your previously stored calories (fat) will be used to supply additional energy.
1kg = Approximately 7000 Calories
🔹To Lose Weight
By cutting down 1000 calories per day, you will cut a total of 7000 calories per week – resulting in the loss of 1 kg of body fat. But never consume fewer than 1,200 calories per day.* (Refer to Weight Management section for Program.)
If you want to lose more than 1kg a week, you will need to either reduce your calorie intake further,* or increase the amount of calories you burn with exercise.
🔹To Maintain Weight
Balance calories from food and beverages with calories expended.**
If you are a woman:
You will need about 24 calories for every Kg of body weight (A 50-kg. woman needs about 1,200 calories a day.)
If you are a man:
You will need about 28 calories for every pound of body weight. (A 50-kg man needs about 1,400 calories a day.)