Net Calories Vs. Calories

kittybellenir
kittybellenir Posts: 128 Member
edited September 18 in Health and Weight Loss
UM Whats the difference?

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  • kittybellenir
    kittybellenir Posts: 128 Member
    UM Whats the difference?
  • Helawat
    Helawat Posts: 605 Member
    Calories:

    The total amount of calories you eat in a day.

    Net Calories:

    The difference between the calories that you consume minus the calories that you burn. In other words:

    Net Calories = Calories In - Calories Out

    Calories In = Calories that you consume throughout the day from food.
    Calories Out = Calories that you burn through exercise as well as the calories that you burn at rest (your BMR or Basal Metabolic Rate).

    A positive number for Net Calories means that you ate more calories than you burned. A negative number means that you burned more calories than you ate.

    The technical formula for Net Calories is:
    Net Calories = Calories Consumed - Calories Burned - BMR.
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