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.
Robert Frost, 1874 - 1963. Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun; And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.