BMR
Moderators: Boss Man, cassiegose
No no treally. BMR is the minimum amount you should eat to maintain healthy metabolism, it's not the best amount through. the example being if a female BMR for a certain individual, (sedentary), was around 1,650, that's no good if they should and could be eating 1,800 cals a day.
For exercise, BMR is not reccomendable, as the basic daily calorie requirement for healthy Metabolism, might not calculate for differing types of exercise, and apporximate caloric burn during and after, and if you eat BMR level calories, and then you're not allowing for say 300 calories burned from execise, you could be harming your metabolism, and causing issues with things like Thyroid and Endocrine functions, and other things besides.
The result is, yes you'd get weight loss potentially, but it wouldn't be the best type, and having BMR type eating habits, might be a little underachieving, regards things like Micronutrient levels per day.
I would suggest an approximate caloric intake based on BMR, and including caloric needs for exercise, would be to take the BMR reading, and add roughly 40% on to it.
For exercise, BMR is not reccomendable, as the basic daily calorie requirement for healthy Metabolism, might not calculate for differing types of exercise, and apporximate caloric burn during and after, and if you eat BMR level calories, and then you're not allowing for say 300 calories burned from execise, you could be harming your metabolism, and causing issues with things like Thyroid and Endocrine functions, and other things besides.
The result is, yes you'd get weight loss potentially, but it wouldn't be the best type, and having BMR type eating habits, might be a little underachieving, regards things like Micronutrient levels per day.
I would suggest an approximate caloric intake based on BMR, and including caloric needs for exercise, would be to take the BMR reading, and add roughly 40% on to it.