Does burning more calories than you eat actually work?

I would like to loose some weight, and was wondering if burning more calories than you eat actually works? If so, how many more calories more should you burn than you eat? How many calories should you eat a day? Thank you! I can't seem to loose this pregnancy weight! Any other advice for me would be great.

How to Lose Weight With Portion Control

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One pound is equal to 3500 calories.To lose a pound a week, you should burn 500 extra calories than you consume each day. You should consume NO LESS than 1,200 calories.You can "burn" these 500 calories either by eating less, exercising more, or a combination of the two.Eat healthy, but choose one day a week to have a "cheat meal" (or a partial cheat day) to eat whatever you want. It rests your body both physically & mentally. And you should lose no more than 2 pounds a week.

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• It all depends on your height, weight and gender i think ._.
• Yes, but that really means if a person is maintaining a 150 lb body weight by eating 3000 cals per day, and then they start eating 2700 cals/day, they'll start losing 'weight."And at the same time if they start doing some cardio, they'll burn off some of their excess bod fat.But just dieting w/o exercise could cause the lost "weight" to consist of some muscle, bone and fluids; Not good.So take steps to lose only the excess bod fat by doing cardio and some upper body toning w/ weights or bands, etc, to keep muscle n bone.
• let's say your body needs 2000 normally so cut down maybe 300-500 of that and workout 30-60 mins daily and you MUST see changes I'll tell you one thing about sports it's the most guaranteed deal of all you give your body healthy food and you work out it gives you back great results that will encourage you to go for more it's a balanced equation don't do too much math so you don't get boredit's not really complicatedyou just need to watch out what you're eating and be activebut don't go so strictly to see quick resultsthose results never last instead make a new healthy life style that you would stick to for good good luck (:
• Yes and no and it depends. Yes ultimately, if the body expends more energy (calories) than it absorbs from food, you'll definitely lose mass (though it could be muscle as well as fat). However, the tricky part is that the body is a very complex biochemical system. It's not a predictable machine. The kind of simplistic math the answer above gives DOES NOT WORK. For everything you do -- eat less, eat differently, exercise more -- your body reacts with hormonal repsonses that make the effects unpredictable. Sometimes people gain weight when they eat LESS and lose weight when the eat MORE, because of the body's various feedback loops and reactions. In short your metabolism has a lot of levers it can pull to slow down or speed up, and that's why it's difficult to lose weight. If it were easy and simple math worked, no one would be obese.