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rugbythug
04-24-2003, 02:56 PM
I need to find out what my Maintenance Calories are. Anybody have a good website or anything?

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6-0
215
19%+-

scorpio
04-24-2003, 03:13 PM
or this site

http://www.caloriecontrol.org/calcalsm.html

rugbythug
04-24-2003, 03:13 PM
Are you sure on that? By your estimate I would need 1891 calories. Because lets say I want to loose 24lbs of fat. That would make my weight goal 191.

rugbythug
04-24-2003, 03:14 PM
That is better it says 3200 to maintain.

scorpio
04-24-2003, 03:18 PM
Scratch the first. That's too low. LOL. I got that from another site. I think the second is more on the money.

LA
04-24-2003, 06:07 PM
Only one way to figure maintenance calories. If you are not currently cutting/bulking write down everything you eat for 3-7 days. Figure the average. It varies by person and even within a person it varies. When you are coming off a cutter, your whole metabolism is lowered. Thus your maintenance calories are lower than when you first started the cut. That is why you need to lower calories more and more the longer the cutter goes on in order to continue to lose weight. Do just the opposite for bulking.

This is important when going from bulk to cut (most people tend to drop calories too fast) and from cut to bulk (again most people add in too many).