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You need to burn 3500 calories a day to lose a pound. A human burns about 2000 a day on average. If you eat 1500 calories a day, you're burning about 500 a day without changing your routine. Which means you have to burn 3000 more calories that day to lose a pound. Not impossible but very difficult. Aerobic workouts like Richard Simmons (don't laugh.
The supplied calculations help you estimate how many calories you burn daily and how much you can eat to maintain your weight. If you want to lose weight, conventional advice is to trim 500 to 1,000 calories from what you burn daily. This size calorie deficit yields a manageable loss of 1 to 2 pounds per week, since one pound equals 3,500 calories. So, if you determine you burn 2,400 calories per day, you need between 1,400 and 1,900 calories per day to lose weight.