How many calories should you be consuming if you are trying to lose weight?

It depends on your current weight and height, and also gender. If you search BMR (basal metabolic rate) calculator there a web generators that will work out how much energy you need whilst at rest. here is a web site to work out your energy expenditure (

I am a female, aged 22 and my energy expenditure is 1700 Calories (I exercise half an hour every day), if I wanted to lose half a kg per week, I would need to deficit my energy intake by 500 Calries per day. There fore I would eat 1200 calories per day, or I ate more, I would exercise a bit more.

Deficit 250 calories per day = 0.25 kg

Deficit 500 Calories per day = 0.5 Kg

deficit 1000 Calories per day= 1kg per wk