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By Richard Lavely MD MPH

Weight loss and prevention of weight gain over your life is an area that interests us all. In America, it is a special problem. Our country produces approximately 8,000 calories a day of food, for every man, woman, and child in America. Yet none of us need more than 2700 per day to maintain our weight.

The simple fact is that if you eat less calories than you burn, you will lose weight.

But most people do not know how many calories they eat per day. That is where the website www.foodnumbers.com comes in.

You use the search mechanism to search the USDA database of all the foods you can eat in America, and click on the ones you eat, and the program adds the calories up for you as well as 20 other important nutrients.

For $10.79 you can get a long term subscription to this website. Frankly, it only takes a few weeks to learn about the calories in the foods you eat. People, we find, only eat from about 50 different foods, and once you save them to your “favorite food list” adding them into the daily nutritional log is just two clicks.

Tutoring is available for using the site, and everyone who subscribes is allowed 15 minutes of tutoring, if necessary, to learn how to use the site.

You use the search mechanism to search the USDA database of all the foods you can eat in America, and click on the ones you eat, and the program adds the calories up for you as well as 20 other important nutrients. Now there are about 3900 calories in a pound of fat. You’ll read different numbers, and I do not think anyone knows an exact number so use that as an estimate.

If you use www.foodnumbers.com and keep your daily intake to, say, 1200 calories, you will lose depending on your burn rate, assume 2200 calories, (the range is 1800 for a 105 lb woman with no exercise program, to 2700 for a 180 lb man with no exercise program) a pound every four days.

If you stay to a 1200 calorie diet, you will lose one pound of fat every four days. I recommend you go back to your maintenance for the weekend, and it will feel like a lot of food and a reward for the previous four days. Then next week do it again. You will lose 4 pounds a month, and maybe a little more because of the attendant water weight. More importantly, you will learn how to manage what you eat for the rest of your life.

When you win the item a user name and password will be sent to you to register on the site.