Sentences with phrase «estimated calorie maintenance level»

Now, with your estimated calorie maintenance level in mind, the next obvious step in figuring out how many calories you should eat per day to lose weight is figuring out what size the caloric deficit should be.

So, take the estimated calorie maintenance level you got in the previous step and create your ideal caloric surplus.

So, take the estimated calorie maintenance level you got in the previous step and create your 20 % deficit.

Then, you used that information to adjust your estimated calorie maintenance level and figure out exactly how many calories you should eat per day to lose weight.

Then, you used that information to adjust your estimated calorie maintenance level and figure out exactly how many calories you need to eat per day to build muscle (or just gain weight in general).

Once you have your estimated calorie maintenance level (using either the basic multiplier or Harris Benedict formula), just add 200 - 300 calories to that figure to determine approximately how many calories you should aim for each day.

Not exact matches

Increase the total daily caloric intake back to your current estimated caloric bodyweight maintenance level, or the number of calories you need to maintain your present body weight.

For example, if your estimated maintenance level was 2500 calories, and the experiment showed that you did indeed maintain your weight consuming this amount, you should now start consuming 2000 calories per day instead.

Now that you have a good estimate of your daily calorie maintenance level, it's time for the fun part.

If you don't know your current calorie maintenance level (the number of calories you require daily in order to maintain your current weight), you can estimate it by using one of the following options...

Our example person estimated that they have a daily calorie maintenance level of 2100 calories.

The answer given is the total of the two and should be, for most people, a pretty close estimate of your daily calorie maintenance level.

If, after adding surplus calories to your estimated maintenance level, you are indeed gaining weight at this ideal rate consistently, cool.

Whatever your estimated maintenance level is, you'd now add about 250 calories (for guys) or 125 calories (for girls) to it and start to consume this number of calories every day.

If you don't know your maintenance calorie level already, then I recommend using this simple calculation to estimate how many calories you need to build muscle:

If you don't know your current calorie maintenance level, you can estimate it by using the same «Harris Benedict Formula» that I outlined in the previous post...

For the sake of an example, let's pretend an example person estimated that their daily maintenance level is 2500 calories.

So, take the calorie maintenance level estimate you calculated in the previous step and use that as your calorie starting point.

Even though I just showed you some of the most popular methods of estimating your daily calorie maintenance level, there is one tiny problem.

But for right now, all that matters is that you have your estimated daily calorie maintenance level figured out.

Luckily though, there are a few quick and easy ways to get an accurate estimate of what your daily calorie maintenance level is.