Resting Metabolic Rate Calories

25th February 2007

To determine how many calories you need per day just for your resting metabolic rate, take the amount you weigh in pounds and multiply that by 10. Just to be sedentary, you need to add 25% of the calculated calories just to sit down and watch tv, get up and walk to the bathroom and do the basic things without doing anything that would require work. The more activity you do, the more calories your body requires. The key is not to give your body these calories in the form of candy bars, potato chip, soda etc.

77 (kg) / 0.454 = 169.6 Lbs
169.6 * 10 = 1696 calories
1696 +(1696* 0.25) = 2120 calories / day
1 g of protein = 4 calories
1 g of carbohydrates = 4 calories
1 g of fat = 9 calories