Find out your basic metabolic rate. This is how much your body uses in energy (at a state of rest) in the form of calories. You need to eat more than your BMR. Please take into account, your BMR is not the maximum amount of energy your body uses in a day. It is the minimum amount of energy used as it does not take into account further strenuous exercise which you might do through the day.
First thing you need to find out is your BMR. To do this, go to this link...
bodybuilding.com/fun/calrmr.htm
It will explain to you what it does
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What Are Basal & Resting Metabolic Rates (RMR)?
These two terms are used interchangeably, although they are not technically the same. Resting metabolic rate is really what most lay people mean when they say basal metabolic rate, and I talk here only about resting metabolic rate (RMR). Basal metabolic rate is a precise calculation with a precise definition; RMR is close enough for practical purposes.
Your metabolic rate = your resting metabolic rate + energy consumed by your daily activities
Resting metabolic rate is the energy required by an animal to stay alive with no activity. Therefore, your real metabolic rate is always significantly higher than your RMR. Calculating RMR is a very useful first step in calculating your real metabolic rate.
Your Resting Metabolic Rate (RMR) is one of the main contributing components of energy expenditure (around 70%).
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Also i hope you have considered doing weight training at a gym.
Many women are afraid of strength training because they believe that it will create large muscles that are unattractive. "I’ll weight train once I get this fat off. I don’t want to turn it into muscle".
This is a prevalent misconception. The vast majority of women cannot build large muscles because they are genetically incapable of doing so. It is impossible to turn fat into muscle, or muscle into fat, as each cell is unique from the other.
Strength training results in an increase in muscle fiber size. As the muscle fibers increase in thickness, the shape of the muscle changes, getting thicker in the belly, or middle, of the muscle. This results in a change in the shape of the muscle. How much the muscle changes in shape, and how large the muscle gets, depends on the amount of work the muscle is asked to do. If the muscle is asked to lift very heavy loads, it will respond with a significant increase in fiber/muscle size. (The goal of most men.)
In order to avoid this gain in muscle mass, women are told to lift very light weights. This recommendation is oftentimes interpreted to the extreme, and women perform many repetitions with 3 or 5 pound weights. Unfortunately, without sufficient load (weight), the muscle will not change, and the goal of "tone" and "shape" cannot be achieved. A change in the shape or tone of a muscle is created in the same way that size is created, with hard work and consistency!! In order to shape or tone your muscle, you must lift a weight that is heavy enough to create muscle fatigue (also known as failure). Working your muscles to fatigue means that your muscles refuse to lift/move the weight in a correct and safe fashion. Working your muscles to fatigue will not necessarily create large, unsightly muscle mass.
Even if you work your muscles to extreme fatigue, rest assured, that the majority of women are genetically unable to create large muscles because they lack sufficient hormones or body structure to do so.
edit: Just adding a small lil bit onto the end. Find out the different type of carbohydrates. I think there are about 4? simple, complex, fibre, starch. If you eat complex or starch carbs just before you go to bed. It means that while sleeping, your body isn't in a state of fasting as these complex/starch carbohydrates contain complex molecules which take longer to break down.
You loose weight while sleeping.