How much calories should you eat a day?!
Question:
How much calories should you eat a day?
Answers:
The three areas that figure into your calorie needs are your basal metabolic rate, your activity level, and digestion and absorption.
Follow the simple steps below to calculate how many calories you should enjoy each day.
Your basal metabolic rate (BMR):
This is the energy it takes to keep your involuntary body processes going. About 60 percent of the calories you consume are used for such things as breathing, maintaining body temperature, manufacturing hormones and keeping your heart beating. It takes roughly 10 calories per pound of body weight to meet those needs. A 120-pound woman, for example, will need 10 x 120, or 1,200, calories each day just to function.
More information including a calorie calculator are below:
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