• bizarroland@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    A slightly more accurate phrase is “calories burned vs calories consumed”.

    You can’t just trust an online BMR calculator to tell you how much food you can eat every day. You have to actually test and know what your metabolism is like, and you can do that for fifty to eighty dollars at a DEXA scan place.

    If you don’t know how much your body is burning, then how can you accurately gauge what is the right amount of food to eat to meet your physical shape goals?