KYFIT BMR Calculator
Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) Calculator
Calorie Intake Calculation
Daily calorie needs based on current weight
The importance of daily activity
If you’re looking to adjust your calorie intake in order to lose weight, to gain weight, or even maintain your weight, adapting your calorie consumption based on your size is essential. As would be expected, someone with a below average height is going to require a much lower calorie intake than someone of above average height. This is why we generally see men with higher daily caloric needs than women, as they tend to have much larger statures. Heavier people utilize more energy daily, and in turn require an increased caloric intake. Our caloric needs calculator takes this into account by requesting your current body weight. It’s also important to keep in mind that understanding and utilizing a calorie needs calculator and its suggested calorie intake is a process. If you’re looking to adjust calorie intake for weight loss, it must be done in a consistent and healthy manner. Dramatically dropping calorie intake or reverting to previous unhealthy eating habits will lead to a “yo-yo effect,” where you can easily gain back what you’ve lost, and put on even more weight than you started with. During weight loss, your body adjusts to a decrease in calorie intake. Start eating like you did before, and you’ll overwhelm your body with energy that it can’t spend.
If we were looking to simply calculate your Basal Metabolic Rate, or the amount of calories you burn while inactive (e.g. lying down), we could simply use the factors mentioned above. But, when looking to calculate daily calorie needs, it’s important to remember that we’re all different! Daily activity therefore becomes an essential element for our calorie needs calculator. Daily calorie intake for extremely active daily routing, like that of a construction worker, teacher or waiter, for example, should be much higher than that of an office worker, or someone with a less active lifestyle. To incorporate this vital factor, our calorie intake calculator adjusts the formula based on your daily activity. The calculator asks you to distinguish among the following activity rates: “Low activity” (e.g. office job), “somewhat active” (e.g. teacher), “active” (e.g. salesperson), or “very active” (e.g. builder). This Physical Activity Level, or PAL, is then incorporated into our calorie intake calculator and will yield a much more personal value.