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Total calories needed to exist (calculating BMR)
The starting point for any diet is to know the number of calories you need per day just to exist, this is our basic metabolic rate (BMR). The calculation considers your age, gender, height, weight and activity level.
Click here for an online calculator to easily work out your BMR.
Or visit the link http://bit.ly/CalcBMR
This provides you with our theoretical ‘maintenance’ calorie intake. If you ate this number of calories a day you would neither gain nor lose weight.
I recommend using these numbers in the first 3-4 weeks as your ‘benchmark’. Over the next few pages you’ll learn how to adjust this number, by how much, and how often. But first we need to breakdown our calories further.
