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Leesak27

Quick question......What does "Net" calories mean? Like it will have how many you ate verses how many you burned. But what does NET mean??? I'm blonde so forgive me~~

Terytha

Gross: total calories consumed.

Net: total calories consumed minus total calories burned with purposeful exercise.

Your net calories are what you have given your body to work with to keep your basic functions like heart and lungs going for the day. It excludes any calories burned off doing things that aren't just keeping you alive.

That's why you'll see people say you need a minimum of 1200 net calories. It does no good to eat 1200 calories if you burned 500 on a treadmill. That only leaves your body 700 calories to keep your organs functioning, which eventually becomes dangerous. It forces your body to start eating muscle and other things to keep you alive. And your heart is a muscle.

Leesak27

Thank You Terytha!