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Assess Your Metabolic Rate

Posted October 31, 2007 at 11:00 AM by Mark Scott

Section: Her Fitness, Calculators & Tools, Her Health

Woman Workout Often times, when someone is trying to figure out how many calories they should be taking in on a daily basis they will go plug some numbers into a fancy formula they found online.

There are a variety of different formulas out there, some are definitely better than others. Usually any type of formula that takes into account your lean weight is going to be slightly more accurate than one that doesn’t since fat mass really does not burn many calories at all.

So say you had two 150 pound people, one is at 10% body fat and the other is at 35%. Because this 10% person has 135 pounds of lean body tissue and the other only has 97.5, the differences in how much they will be required to eat to maintain their weight will be quite significant.

Furthermore, when using these calculations you always must remember that they are just starting points. Everyone is going to have a slightly different metabolic rate depending on this such as genetics, environmental factors, exercise type being performed and so on. Additionally, if you are just coming off a period of a reduced calorie intake (severe dieting), your metabolic rate is likely to be a good 10-15% lower than what it usually would because of this (this is reversible over time however once you are back on a more appropriate nutritional intake).

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