In a diet, what is the "BMR"? and how is it calculated?
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BMR Stands to Base Metabolic, Your BMR will indicate how many calories you need to take in to maintain your current weight.  In simple terms, if you take in less than this amount you will lose weight and, if you take in more, you will gain weight.\n\nto calculate yor BMR use this formula\n\nFor Women:\n\nBMR = 655 + (4.36 x your weight in pounds) + (4.32 x your height in inches)- (4.7 x age)\n\n \nFor Men:\n\nBMR = 66 + (6.22 x your weight in pounds) + (12.7 x your height in inches)  (6.8 x your age)
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I'm not a dietician, but I would imagine - initially - you'll have a 3-ounce weight gain since you physically consumed the food.  However, your body will break the food down, obtain the nutrients from it, and use it for your body's basic metabolic functions.  \n\nWeight gain comes from intaking more food than your body needs to thrive.  Weight loss comes from obtaining your ideal caloric intake to maintain your current weight, and lower the overall daily calories.
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Based on the Body mass index(BMI) formula:\n\nBMI=weight/height*height \n\nWhen weight is in kg and height in m, BMI should be between 20 and 25 for a normal weight; over 30 is considered obese.\n\nSo based on these calculations you should weight between about 50 and 62,5 for a normal weight. So ideally u should lose about 24,6 kg to get within that weight range.\n\nLooks like a long way to go, so here's a closer objective for you to consider first: if you just lose 13 kg, you will get your BMI below 30 and your body will thank you a lot. Life will be literally much easier and health risks due to weight will significantly decrease.\n\nSo good luck to get to 74 kg and don't forget to throw a party when u get there!
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I'm not aware of a specific test to determine your BMR.  You might try contacting the nearest sports medicine clinic to see if there are any options.\n\nAdditionally, check with your doctor to determine if you have any thyroid problems.  Hypo-thyroidism (I think) can slow metabolism substantially making it difficult to lose weight. \n\nFinally, review your own eating habits.  If you often go for long periods of time (6-8 hours or more) without eating anything, then your body (being the efficient little machine that it is) slows your metabolism in order to conserve energy.  This may be counterintuitive, but many people find that they actually have to eat more often (which will speed up the metabolism) to lose weight.  \n\nGood luck.
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That would depend on how many calories you consume each day. On a 1500 calorie diet, 30% would be 450. On a 2000 calorie diet 30% would be 600. Figure out how many calories you consume, then multiply that number by .3 to see how many fat calories you are allowed.
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Search google for  a weight watcher's calculator. You put the calories, fiber and fat in it and it tells you how many points.
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*Total Energy Requirements (kcal/day)= Basal Energy Expenditure + Activity Energy Expenditure + Specific Dynamic Activity\n\n\nWhere:\n***Basal Energy Expenditure in males: 66+ (13.7 x weight in kg)+(5 x height in cm) – (6.8 x age in years)\n***Basal Energy Expenditure in females: 655+ (9.6 x weight in kg)+(1.8 x height in cm) – (4.7 x age in years)\n***Activity Energy Expenditure:\n(Sedentary= 400 to 800 kcal/day)\n(Light work= 800 to 1200 kcal/day)\n(Moderate work= 1200 to 1800 kcal/day)\n(Hard work= 1800 to 4500 kcal/day)\n***Specific Dynamic Activity= Basal Energy Expenditure x 0.10\n\nIf you prefer avoiding calculation just use a Total Energy Requirements calculator on-line:\nhttp://www-users.med.cornell.edu/~spon/picu/calc/beecalc.htm
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It depends on your height, weight, age, and sex.  There are several online calculators that ascertain your particular basal metabolic rate, or how many calories YOU burn in a day.  Once you find that out, you can use that number to lose weight by creating a calorie deficit by eating x number less than your bmr and/or burning them off through exercise.\nHere is a link to a metabolic calculator-\nhttp://www.internetfitness.com/calculators/bmr.htm\n3500 calories equals a pound.  Consume 3500 more than you need/burn, you will gain one pound.  Consume/Burn 3500 less than you need, you will lose one pound.  Aim for 500 to 1000 calories less than your bmr to lose 1-2 pounds per week.  Any added exercise can only increase the results, so exercise away.
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Your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) is a measure of physiological and biochemical activity keeping you alive. It is usually measured in terms of oxygen consumption since the oxygen you take in is used to respire glucose to provide energy to drive the metabolic processes. The BMR is sometimes called Resting Metabolic Rate because the measurement is made when you are not doing anything other than keeping alive.\nDietary influences upon metabolic rate are unimportant, but exercise dramatically increases the rate. You can't eat or not eat anything that has any significant effect upon metabolic rate (unless you starve - a bad idea).\nYour metabolic rate is adjusted automatically in response to energy demand usually because of exercise/physical activity.\nThe only safe way to reduce body weight is to reduce the amount of energy-food (fat, starch & sugar) in a healthy, balanced diet. Exercise will contribute to weight loss (& have many other significant benefits) but it is eating less energy-food that is the most important.
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NOPE...just another diet scam.  There isn't a shred of scientific data to support this, but scammers will still sell you anything.\n\nSee link below
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Hey buddy!\n\nGreat question!  Here is the deal.  \n\nYou have a metabolism that probably burns about 2000 calories per day, if you just sleep.  Let's call this your resting metabolism.  In sci fi terms it is called your BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate).  \n\nNow, when you don't eat 2000 calories for an extended period of time, your body can start to think it is starving (and for good reason); accordingly, it will slow down making your heart rate and system burn less calories, although it will still need to burn them.  So maybe now your BMR drops to 1500 calories/day, so your rate of burning calories drops and is probably why you started to feel pretty depressed.  It seems that heart rate and mood are linked.  Think waking up versus having a good cup of coffee.  Anyways, this is an aside, but should tell you I know what I am talking about. \n\nOK, let's get at your weight loss.  You said you were hardly eating anything, thus, you were creating a calorie deficit for yourself.  If you don't eat anything, yet you burn 1500 calories just living, albeit down from the faster metabolism of 2000, you still need to pull this energy source from somewhere.  Since you weren't eating, by deductive reasoning you can see that it came from your body fat stores.  Voila!  You were burning body fat.  Do starvation diets work?  Heck yes!  However, it is usually short term since who wants to be depressed or asleep the whole time.  As an example, this is exactly what happens to bears when they hibernate.  They stuff their faces with berries and salmon and whatever, then hit the cave and lay low for four months.  There metabolism drops big time since they just need to stay alive (deep sleep), but because they are not eating, they come out of the cave much leaner (six pack abs :) ) because they used their fat to fuel their long deep slumber. \n\nSo the two phenomenon can co-exist.  You can lower your metabolism and lose body fat.  However, as you attest, this isn't a very fun way to do it.  \n\nWithout getting really into it, the better (call in more mentally and physcially healthy) way to lose weight is to eat at your BMR, which keeps your metabolism normal; then stay active doing what you like to do.  Shoot hoops, dance, shop, hunt, golf, etc.  By staying active, your excess NRG over your BMR keeps you burning fat from the deficit.  Moreover, you won't be cranky or depressed the whole time.  The healthy clip you should expect is one to two pounds per week.\n\nKnowledge is more than half the battle.  :)\n\nI also suggest that you find someone knowledgeable to encourage and motivate you to help you reach your goal.  This really helps.  \n\nI believe this answers your question, but if not, you may email me.\n\nGood luck on your diet and fitness goals!\n\nTrainer Gregg\ngregg@leandownsite.com\n"You can achieve anything you set your mind on."
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In a sense, say before you begin your diet you take in 3000 calories, your body is used to this even though it may be 500 over what you need. You now begin a diet that is 2000 calories. Your metabolism will eventually adjust and see that it only needs the 2000 and will adjust accordingly. Now say you go back to 3000, you are now getting 1000 more than you body is used to rather that the original 500 over the limit hence the YO YO effect.\n\nHave you ever seen the people who diet and end up looking unhealthy although they have lost lots of weight, that is because they lost mostly lean muscle. This is why it is so important to exercise when dieting because your body will use your calories to sustain your lean body mass, with exercise your body says HEY I STILL NEED YOU MR MUSCLE and puts the calories to good use while loosing the fat.
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BMR will make a difference, but nothing that is such that claims of 'you can eat ridicuoulsy more amounts of food becuase you have more LBM' are even near the truth; Muscle tissuse is metabolically active, but not a fat displacement vacuum. Based on the study above, you are looking at maximal increases in caloric expenditure (to sustain muscle mass) at no more than 100-150cal per 24hr period and that is pushing it.\n\nBMR will go up when eating, but let us not confuse that with TEF (thermic expenditure of food; that energy required to digest). BMR will only go up and stay up when there is both an increase in active tissue (both fat and muscle) as well as increased activity at the cellular level.
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go to www.fitday.com\nit is free you enter all the food you ate that day and it calculates calories,fat,carbs,protien.wheres my ten points?
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That depends on many variables such as your height, weight, activity level and goals.  Use this calculator to assess your BMR and AMR for your Daily Energy Requirement.  If your goal is to lose weight, consume no more than 300-500 calories below your DER.  If your goal is to gain weight, consume 300-500 calories above your DER.\n\nhttp://www.preventdisease.com/healthtools/articles/bmr.html
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BMI is defined as the individual's body weight divided by the square of the height, and is almost always expressed in the unit kg / m2, which is therefore often left out. The BMI value can be calculated with the following formulae.\n\nBODY MASS INDEX = weight/(height)^2.
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Go to this site and you can calculate your BMI yourself.\n\nhttp://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/bmi/