Calories Needed per Day

So what is the total number of calories needed per day?

The best answer to the question is it all depends...There are cultures throughout the world that eat around 2000 calories per day and are among the leanest, healthiest people on the face of the earth. Amazingly enough, the average American diet has right around the same amount of calories, inevitably raising the question...

Why are we fat?

Allow me to elaborate on the "it all depends answer" from above. The full answer is that it all depends on what you are eating. One person eats 2000 calories per day consisting primarily of unrefined plant-based food and another eats 2000 calories consisting of primarily animal fats and refined food. Everything else remaining the same, who gains weight?

On top of the weight gain, the person that eats the refined food is going to find that they are hungry almost all of the time.

Why? Because the question of total number of calories needed per day is a trick question...

If you are eating the wrong food you will never get enough of the right calories and you will always be hungry. Your body needs the right calories. You can eat an unlimited amount of calories per day of the wrong food and still be hungry because your body doesn't function on calories...It functions on the right calories!

Of course there are exceptions to the calories per day question. If you are highly active then you will tend to need more calories per day than someone who is not. The same holds true for physically larger individuals. By physically larger I do not mean fat, I mean "bigger". The bigger you are the more calories you will require.

So how do you know when you are getting the right amount of calories?

We have made this far too complicated!

The simple answer is that you will know when you have had enough because you won't be hungry. It almost seems too easy doesn't it? The truth is that your body tells you when you are not getting enough food, it is called the "hungry feeling".

If you are eating the right food you do not need to wonder if you are getting the correct amount of calories needed per day, your body will tell you when you have had enough.

Additional Information

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