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Your weight is a balancing act, but the equation is simple: If you eat more calories than you burn, you gain weight. Because 3,500 calories equals about 1 pound (0.45 kilogram) of fat, you need to burn 3,500 calories more than you take in to lose 1 pound. So, in general, if you cut 500 calories from your typical diet each day, you'd lose about 1 pound a week (500 calories x 7 days = 3,500 calories). It isn't quite this simple, however, and you usually lose a combination of fat, lean tissue and water.
Maybe you've heard that 3,500 calories equals a pound of fat and in order to lose one pound per week you need to cut 500 calories from your daily diet. But there are two reasons that this doesn't translate to people's IRL weight loss efforts, explains registered dietitian Brian St. Pierre of Precision Nutrition.