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| | Calories: Calories For Five Pound Weight Loss |
 | | Decrease that by 500 for a total of 1,200 calories a day (I would NOT go beneath that without checking with someone who knows what they're doing, at least not in the beginning). |
 | | That, plus increasing your activity (exercise and so forth), will put you in a deficit of more than 500 calories a day, which will have you dropping about a pound a week. |
 | | Understand that all this is theoretical and that you may lose more (or even less, though I doubt it). |
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