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.
After his death on May 5, 1885, the family moved across the country to Lawrence, Massachusetts, under the patronage of (Robert's grandfather) William Frost, Sr., who was an overseer at a New England mill. Frost graduated from Lawrence High School in 1892.