Sentences with phrase «own calorie maintenance»

As I mentioned before, your daily calorie maintenance level is the number of calories that your body burns per day.

For the sake of using an easy to understand example, PersonX will weigh 200 pounds and have a daily calorie maintenance level of 2500 calories.

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...

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.

If you have correctly forecast your calorie maintenance level, and then reduced your daily intake by 500 calories per day, you should lose approximately 1 pound of fat per week, as there are 4000 calories in 1 pound of fat.

Lifesum does the calorie maintenance calculation for you.

If for whatever reason you've only been averaging 8,000 steps when your goal was 10,000, that 2,000 difference may very well be the difference between calorie maintenance and deficit.

That's because everybody has different calorie maintenance requirements that depend on their size and activity levels.

Find out why calorie maintenance matters and discover the best ways to calculate and track your maintenance calories.

Whether you're concerned about gaining weight, building muscle, or losing fat, understanding calorie maintenance is important.

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

You learned that a «caloric surplus» means eating more calories than your body needs, which means you need to be above your calorie maintenance level.

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).

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.

Let's say some person (male or female) had a daily calorie maintenance level of 2500 calories.

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

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.

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

So, for example, a man with a calorie maintenance level of 2000 calories would look to consume about 2250 calories per day (a woman would shoot for around 2125 calories per day).

This is known as your calorie maintenance level.

In the following example, we will pretend our example person is a man who weighs 165 lbs and has a daily calorie maintenance level of 2100 (which are just completely made up numbers, by the way).

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.

Reducing calories by 15 - 20 % below your daily calorie maintenance needs is a useful start.

Your daily calorie maintenance level is way higher than that of the different body types.

Be sure you are still under your calorie maintenance and you will still lose fat.

Then, once again, multiply your BMR by the appropriate activity level below to find your calorie maintenance level, and subtract 500 from that figure to get your total daily calorie intake for fat loss:

In the previous step, I showed you a couple of ways to calculate your daily calorie maintenance level.

Eat about 15 - 20 % below your calorie maintenance level.

Because your calorie maintenance level already is how many calories are needed for you to maintain your current weight.

If your weight has been generally staying the same, then the amount of calories you're eating right now roughly represents your current calorie maintenance level.

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...

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.

If you simply eat «on the fly» out of instinct, you'll almost always revert back to eating at your calorie maintenance level (or in a surplus), since that is what your body is naturally programmed to do when food is constantly available.

On the other hand, since a percentage based deficit relies on each person's own calorie maintenance level to set the amount, the deficit created will be in direct proportion to the amount of weight that needs to be lost by each individual person, and the means the rate at which they lose weight will be in direct proportion as well.

This is referred to as the Thermic Effect Of Food, and it's one of those factors I mentioned earlier that influence what your daily calorie maintenance level is.

While method # 1 is usually pretty accurate for most people, it still has the potential to be off to some degree because it doesn't account for many of those individual factors I mentioned before (like age, gender and activity level), all of which affect what our daily calorie maintenance level is.

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

The thing is, in order to do any of these things, you first need to figure out what your calorie maintenance level is so you know exactly what it is you need to be above, below or even with.

Somewhere in between those 2 amounts will usually be your daily calorie maintenance level.

That means 2500 calories is your daily calorie maintenance level in this example.

Instead, your calorie maintenance level is dependent on many factors that are specific to you and your exact situation.

Whether you used method # 1, method # 2, or a combination of both (or did the experiment described in method # 3), you should now have a really good idea of what your daily calorie maintenance level is.

And, the starting point for figuring out exactly how many calories you need to eat per day revolves around something called your calorie maintenance level.

As you can see, your specific calorie maintenance level is tailored to you and you alone.

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

In case it's not obvious enough, calorie maintenance levels are different for everyone because we all have different daily calorie requirements.

Your calorie maintenance level is where your body is at when you consume and burn the same number of calories.

Not exact matches

We know the main concern is achieving balanced nutrition while taking into account calorie control and weight maintenance.