I'll jump in on this one too. My goal is to drop 12 by PeepStock or about 57 days from now.
Counting calories can drive you crazy but at the end of the day losing weight is a numbers game. Found a great site to help me through this process, www.caloriesperhour.com Through exercise and reducing intake or portion size and keeping track or even roughly counting calories consumed you can acheive your goals... we'll see. Anywho, check out the site - might be helpful - good luck!
A pound of body fat equates to approximately 3500 calories. So if you have a calorie deficit of 500 calories (meaning that you burn 500 calories more than you eat each day) you would lose approximately one pound per week:
500 x 7 = 3,500
It's easy to see that a calorie deficit of 1000 calories would mean that you'd lose approximately two pounds per week. And that's a good number to remember, because two pounds a week is commonly accepted as the maximum rate of weight loss that is healthy. Losing weight too quickly has other disadvantages, too, and we'll be discussing this in the next topic.