Hi everyone!

On a calorie tracking site I'm using, it gives me my basic metabolic burned calories for each day. In addition, I can add activities as I do them - everything from walking to driving to showering, etc. etc. I LOVE it because as I add all the activites I see how much I am burning each day.

However...aren't some of those activities already calculated into my metabolic rate? Like getting dressed....or getting ready for bed...or eating. Don't laugh! Those are all listed as separate activities that you can add to your log every day. What exactly does your metabolic rate consist of?

Thanks!

Cris

Cris -- BMR generally consists of the calories spent to just keep you alive! So, what you would burn if you slept all day and night or were in a coma, that sort of thing.

Nutridiary claims that when you add activities, it is in addition to BMR

One caution -- online calculators seem to typically estimate on the high side for calories burned. In some cases, quite high.

What I do in nutridiary is set my lifestyle as lightly active, even though many days I am more active than that. Then the only exercise I enter is the exercise I count for my minutes (elliptical, weights, some heavy yard work).

In the past, I've been lucky and this combination, along with counting calories has produced good estimates for weight loss. Other people find the estimates to be high or low for them.

I don't know if I answered your question or just blathered a bunch!!