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Subject: Calculate Your Daily Calories
Here's a simple formula you can use to estimate your total caloric needs for the day*
Change your weight in pounds to kilograms: Divide your weight by 2.2.
Your basal metabolic rate is approximately one calorie a kilogram an hour. Multiply your weight in kilograms by the 24 hours in a day.
This is the number of calories you burn just being alive each day.
Now factor in activity: Multiply your calories needed a day (from #2
above) by the following factors, depending on your activity level:
Light activity: multiply #2 by 1.3
Moderate: multiply #2 by 1.4
Heavy: multiply #2 by 1.5
If you sit at a desk for your job, and workout 30 minutes a day, this is considered light activity. If your job involves more motion, and you are active in addition to your workout (you take stairs, walk to work, do a lot of housework, etc.), this is considered moderate activity.
Construction work, athletic activity, etc. is considered heavy activity.
Most Americans are in the "light activity" level.
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| Posted: 6/17/2009 |
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