I am starting to count calories to loose at least 10 pounds. How many calories should I allow myself per day?

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its not so much about the calories, its if your eating right. make sure your eating lots of vegetables and fruits and stay away from fatty foods. also exercising would help a lot as well. i dont believe in dieting, i believe in eating right and exercising and it works too. id say either to go the gym or run a couple times a week. do some sit ups a couple times a week and maybe lift? but most importantly eat right!

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exercize, eat only when you are hungery, and eat healthy... dont count, math is too hard
Depends on your age---if you are under 20, allow 1900. if you are from 20-50, allow 2000. it's not about counting calories,it's about consuming GOOD calories, not JUNK FOOD calories.
One pound of body weight is equal to 3,500 calories. Eating 500 fewer calories per day will result in a weight loss of 1 pound per week. Eating 250 fewer calories per day combined with a 250-calorie deficit from exercise will also result in a weight loss of 1 pound per week. So good luck and think in the same lines.
First you have to figure out how many calories your body needs per day then minus 500 from it. There are several sites online that will tell you what you need. Here's one. http://www.shape.com/tools/calc/ideal/
its not about the calories but about the fat and sugar that is in it.
It depends on your weight. The heavier you are, the more calories your body burns. If you did nothing all day, your body would burn 12 calories per lb of body weight. That's if you are sedentary ALL DAY. So take that into consideration. There are alot of calculators on line that can tell you better.
i've known people who eat only 3 apples a day and that's all
that isn't very healthy but you would still be alive even if thats all you ate

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