Weight Maintenance Calculator
for Women

Are you curious as to how many calories you need to maintain your current weight or even lose weight?

Try this calculator to find out.

This calorie calculator is meant to be an estimate only.

Actual calories needed to maintain or lose weight may vary based on muscle mass, activity and a variety of other factors such as illness, pregnancy, etc.

If you are obese, your actual caloric needs may be less accurate. This is because a small percentage of fat tissue actually burns calories. The remaining amount of fat tissue does not burn calories. Please keep this in mind when using the calorie calculator. By consuming these calories on an average daily basis, you should maintain your weight.

However, if you are looking to lose weight, here are some tips:

Most health professionals recommend you to lose weight slow as the safest and most effective weight loss approach.
A sensible weight-loss program allows you to lose weight gradually— about one-half to one pound per week.
Gradual weight loss promotes long-term loss of body fat, not just water weight that can be quickly regained.
To lose one pound, a person must burn 3,500 calories more than are consumed (500 calories per day over the course of a week). For example, reducing calories by 300 per day and increasing daily activity to burn off an additional 200 calories should result in a weight loss of one pound per week!

Here is an example of how the calculator can help you.

If your daily calorie needs were calculated as 2500 calories and you desire to lose weight, you could:

Consume 2200 calories. (That's 300 calories less than this example diet), and...
Burn 200 calories through activity, to result in a 2000-calorie diet!

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Health Tip:

FDA urges consumers
to stop using
Zicam Nasal Spray

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is alerting consumers that Zicam Cold Remedy Nasal Gel, Zicam Cold Remedy Nasal Swabs, and Zicam Cold Remedy Swabs, Kids Size, a discontinued product that consumers may still have in their homes, have all been associated with long lasting or permanent loss of smell (referred to as anosmia). These products, marketed by Matrixx Initiatives, are zinc-containing, nasal cold remedies used to reduce the duration and severity of cold symptoms. However, these products have not been shown to be effective in the reduction of the duration and severity of cold symptoms.

This advisory does not concern oral zinc tablets and lozenges taken by mouth.

FDA recommends that consumers stop using these products and throw them away. See the FDA website for How to Dispose of Unused Medicines