Estimating daily calorie requirements is challenging.
You would simply enter your child's age (or your own age), gender, and physical activity level, to create a customized «Pyramid Plan» with
an estimated daily calorie requirement and recommended amounts to eat from each food group.
Not exact matches
Those on the 5:2 diet ate normally for five days and for their two fasting days consumed 600
calories, using LighterLife Fast Foodpacks, whilst those on the
daily diet were advised to eat 600
calories less per day than their
estimated requirements for weight maintenance (in the study women ate approx. 1400
calories, men ate approx. 1900
calories / day).
The
estimated average
daily calorie requirement is 2000 for women and 2500 for men, this is just an
estimate and will depend on your age, weight, height, body composition and levels of activity.
Compare that to the
estimated average
daily calorie requirement figures (2000 for women and 2500 for men).
While one or both of the methods described above will usually provide a fairly accurate
estimate of a person's
daily calorie requirements, it's important to remember that they are still just
estimates.
Calories were restricted to 75 % of
estimated daily needs, and fluids were calculated at 80 % of
daily requirements.