After you find your maintenance calories, you have to eat or burn 500 calories below that to lose 1 pound a week. Depending on how active you are, your maintenance will be higher, allow you to eat more without gaining weight.
Elinor Miriam Frost (born White) 1  Collection: WikiTree. 2  Birth: Oct 25 1873 - Acton, Middlesex, Massachusetts. 3  Death: Mar 20 1938 - Gainesville, Alachua, Florida.  Parents: Edwin White, Henrietta Ada 1  White. Husband: Robert Lee Frost.  Children: Elliot Frost, Lesley Ballantine, Carol Frost, Irma Frost, Marjorie Frost, Elinor Bettina Frost.
Like many another Yankee individualists, Robert Frost was a rebel. So was his father, William Frost, who had run away from Amherst, Mass., to go West. His mother, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, emigrated to Philadelphia when she was a girl. His father died when Robert, who was born March 26, 1874, was about 11. The boy and his mother, the former Isabelle Moody, went to live at Lawrence, Mass., with William Prescott Frost, Robert's grandfather, who gave the boy a good schooling.