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Originally Posted by munchievictim
I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction. I'm calorie counting and I know that it's important to know how many calories you burn/how many calories you take in, and I know how to chart the calories I burn with excercise. However, I'm not at all sure how to calculate how many calories my body burns simply by walking and talking and breathing all day. Is there a reliable way of doing this?
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freedieting.com is one of the many websites that have numerous "calculators" if you're interested.
I personally don't believe that it
is important to know how many calories you burn through intentional or unintentional exercise. "Those" calculators are highly inaccurate in that regard. There are
so many variables. Each body is
so different. They are pure "guesstimates" at best. Which is why I have never, ever bothered tracking them. And to date, I've had no problem creating a calorie deficit. Monitoring my calories and watching the scale has helped me to discover the right amount of calories needed for me to obtain that calorie deficit. No tracking of my calories burned was required.
Therefore, I keep my calories burned totally and completely separate from my calories consumed. I eat what I eat. And I burn what I burn. I believe that the only calories worth tracking are those ingested. Any calories burned through exercise and activity is simply a bonus in my book.