After you find your maintenance calories, you have to eat or burn 500 calories below that to lose 1 pound a week. Depending on how active you are, your maintenance will be higher, allow you to eat more without gaining weight.
Elinor Miriam Frost (born White) 1  Collection: WikiTree. 2  Birth: Oct 25 1873 - Acton, Middlesex, Massachusetts. 3  Death: Mar 20 1938 - Gainesville, Alachua, Florida.  Parents: Edwin White, Henrietta Ada 1  White. Husband: Robert Lee Frost.  Children: Elliot Frost, Lesley Ballantine, Carol Frost, Irma Frost, Marjorie Frost, Elinor Bettina Frost.
Also, on account of his metered verse, the Nobel committee may have viewed Frost as too old fashioned. Interestingly, although much honored in his lifetime, biographers record that Frost was obsessed with winning the Nobel. If that is the case, and Frost publicly lobbied for the prize, that certainly would have put off the Nobel committee. Still, the 1962 prize should have gone to Robert Frost, not John Steinbeck, a mediocre talent by comparison.