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Report Abuse. You have to eat 3500 calories less than the body requires to loose a pound. If you take your weight (say 200 lbs.) times 15 = 3000 cal. Therefore you would take the 3000 calories times 7 days which would = 21,000 calories. For every 3500 calories you eat less in one week represents 1 lb.
You must burn more calories than you consume in order to see the scale move. Restricting your calories and breaking a sweat with exercise will help you reach your caloric deficit. It takes 3,500 calories to melt off a pound of fat. Therefore, you must burn 500 calories a day to reach a weekly weight loss of 1 lb. Simply doing 20 crunches will burn less than 20 calories.