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.
His father, a journalist and New England transplant named William Prescott Frost, Jr., named his firstborn child after his personal hero, Robert E. Lee. (No word on what his mother, Isabelle Moodie, thought of her son's namesake.) Frost's younger sister Jeanie was born two years later.