This is why almost all of the standard calculators which
determine number of calories to eat to reach or maintain a given weight give erroneous results.
Determine the number of calories you need to eat per day and simply keep track of your daily intake.
Hi — your activity level and physical size will
determine the number of calories you will need / consume to maintain your weight / health.
Computer software will then analyze «before» and «after» photos to
determine the number of calories and the nutrients in the food consumed.
One of them is the Katch McArdle formula, which is pretty accurate since it takes the body's fat percentage into account, and
determines the number of calories you should ingest based on how much muscle mass you have, not your whole bodyweight.
The Liquid Calories Calculator
determines the number of calories you consume each day from beverages.
These processes for
determining the number of calories you need to build muscle are a «quick and easy» estimate.
So, the question you have to answer when
determining the number of calories you should eat to build muscle is how big is too big?
The general guidelines for
determining the number of calories you should be consuming in order to lose weight is based on your age, weight, and the average amount of physical activity performed daily.
«A big factor in
determining the number of calories expended is a person's body weight,» says Richard Lopez, Ph.D., professor of exercise sciences at Florida International University.
What
determines the number of calories you burn in a day is the activity of your internal organs and muscles.
Not exact matches
Atwater — who actually wanted to use his work in the 1890s to help poor people get the most
calories for their money —
determined the average
number of calories in four main energy sources: carbs, fats, protein, and alcohol.
Hey Amy, I don't have the
numbers on this, but there are loads
of sites you can use online to
determine the
calories
Therefore, the total
number of calories that you burn in a given day (i.e. your daily caloric expenditure) can be
determined by adding your BMR, the
calories that you have burned to support physical activity, and the
calories that you have burned to support digestion
of food (this is generally 10 % or so
of the total
number of calories that you have consumed, read more about this in our Thermic Effect
of Food article), as follows:
If this makes you question the old adage that «a
calorie is a
calorie,» and that it's the overall
number of calories you eat that
determines whether you gain or lose weight, you're right to be skeptical.
Next question is how many
calories should you eat, my
calorie calculator asks you 5 questions to accurately
determine your metabolism and give you the precise
number of calories you need in each
of your 6 meals.
There are a
number of different factors that
determine the amount
of calories that you burn while participating in a session
of Bikram yoga.
Now, while the balance
of calorie intake and
calories burned during daily activities still
determine your weight in the end, there are a
number of factors which may contribute to obesity and being overweight.
Most
of them are based on the Harris - Benedict formula, which
determines your basal metabolic rate — that's essentially the
number of calories you need just to be alive and awake.
This
Calorie Deficit Calculator will
determine the estimated total
number of calories you need to maintain your current weight based on your BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate) and your level
of activity.
To
determine the amount
of calories, you have to look at absolute
numbers - macronutrients in grams.
The researchers found that «1) ingestion
of a large
number of calories at one time (binge eating) impacts metabolic parameters even when total
calories and macronutrients are appropriate for weight; 2) the timing
of energy intake is an independent determinant
of the diurnal rhythm
of leptin secretion, indicating a relatively acute affect
of energy balance on leptin dynamics; 3) the mechanism
of exaggerated insulin secretion after a binge meal remains to be
determined, but may be related to the altered diurnal pattern
of leptin secretion; and 4) as most binge eating episodes in the population are associated with the ingestion
of excess
calories, it is hypothesized that binge eating behavior is associated with even greater metabolic dysfunction than that described herein.»
There are a
number of macro calculators available online that can help you
determine — based on your height, weight, age, gender, and activity level — how many
calories, grams
of fats, carbohydrates, and protein are required to fuel your body based on your nutrition goals (weight loss, weight maintenance, or even bulking).
Moist treats are harder to calculate, since you must either convert the fat percentage to dry matter, or know the
number of calories so that you can use one
of the formulas above in order to
determine the actual amount
of fat (most treat labels do not provide information about
calories).