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Burning fat, as Snowy mentioned, has more factors involved. Building muscle helps, as does cleaning up your diet. Balance out your macronutrients, and try to eat a reasonable number of calories. Don't be afraid of fat and carbs. Balance your diet. If you calculate how much you're eating, and then see what you should be eating based on your weight, you might find that you can cut out 500 calories simply by eliminating "empty calories." That's up to a pound per week in fat loss by cutting out sugar. It's easy to eat 500 calories worth of sugar. Too damn easy.
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Based on my BMR and experience, I maintain my weight at about 2700 calories a day (remember how tall I am - it takes a lot to pump that much blood around).
Honestly my biggest empty calories are sodas, which is usually one a day. They're 27-40g sugar, which is roughly 100-200 calories. I'd cut them out, but there's simply no way to do 12 hour days consistently without caffeine. Caffeine from tea has no noticeable effect on my alertness, and I can't stomach black coffee. Sweetened coffee has more sugar than soda, so that's not really useful either. And finally, "Diet" soda has all sorts of issue - #1 is that it is nigh-undrinkable, I hate the taste of artificial sweeteners and #2 I'm not certain that sucralose, etc., metabolize in a healthy way and I'm not keen on drinking them at all even if I could stomach the taste.