Can You Really Eat More and Lose Weight? Recently, someone asked me for my views about the amount of daily calories they should consume, and whether a 800-1000 calories' intake can help to speed up their weight loss. I thought this is something you'd be interested in, so I'm going to share my thoughts with you as well. You've probably heard this many times: consuming too many calories makes us overweight. Of course, this is TRUE... Both eating less or exercising more will most definitely result in weight loss. It's a simple matter of arithmatic -- if your "calories out" is more than your "calories in", you will lose weight. Thus, it becomes very natural of us to think that if cutting calories is such a good thing, then the more you cut, the better, right? Doesn't this mean that we'll lose the excess weight faster? In reality, it is not so. Making a too-drastic cut in your caloric intake is a very, very bad idea. If you...