The Most Accurate Way to Calculate Your Daily Calorie Needs and Macro-nutrient Breakdown
In the process of achieving physical fitness, nutrition is as important, if not more, as the workouts we do in the gym. Even if you do perfect workout best suited for your needs, if you do not feed your body with the right nutrients, you are not going to see results.
There are three aspects of nutrition that you need to consider while designing your diet
- Total amount of calories you are taking in
- Ratios of the macronutrients i.e. Proteins, Carbohydrates and Fats
- When to eat what
Lets discuss each of these one at a time
Calculating Calorie Requirements
There are a variety of ways been proposed on calculating your daily calorie needs, here we provide three methods in the order of increasing complexity.
Approach 1: This is a rather simple approach, just take your weight in pounds and multiply it by a factor of 20. As an example if your weight is 180 pounds, then your daily calorie requirement is 180 X 20 or 3600 calories a day. Although this calculation is really simple to perform, it is prone to great amounts of errors, since it does not consider your height, body composition, lifestyle age and gender into account. As an example a 5 feet 3 inch tall obese woman and a 6 feet tall male athlete with same 180 pounds of weight will get same… The Most Accurate Way to Calculate Your Daily Calorie Needs and Macronutrient Breakdown — Kaa-Yaa
