Your Calorie Targets

You will notice when you look at your calorie targets that you actually have 2 sets of numbers. One of these sets of numbers is what we call your maintenance calories. This is the number of calories you can consume and maintain weight.

If you stuck to this target, you’d have the same number of calories in as calories out.

This number is actually your TDEE. To calculate how many calories you need to eat to lose fat, first we need to know how many calories your body uses in a day. In essence your total daily energy expenditure.

In later videos we will address the importance of these maintenance numbers, however for now let’s focus on the other set of numbers - your fat loss calorie targets.

You will see that you have a daily calorie target, as well as a weekly calorie target.

You will notice that your daily calorie target is just your weekly calorie target split across the 7 days of the week.

One of the best things about tracking your calories and looking at your target over the course of a week rather than day by day, is that as long as you stick to your weekly calorie target, you will make progress. So if you have one high calorie day, things go a bit tits up, it doesn’t matter, you have the rest of the week to balance it out.

How you choose to split your calories up over the course of the week is up to you. In later videos I will explain some of the different methods and ways you can use this weekly target to help successfully work around your desired lifestyle.

But for now its most important that you know, that as long as you stick to your fat loss calorie target, you will start to lose weight and make progress.