5 Things You Need to Know about Calories

Last Updated on January 7, 2021

In fact, the human body needs to use energy in order to properly perform daily functions, such as breathing and digesting.

How much calories you burn while doing nothing is known as basal metabolic rate or resting calorie rate. You can even use an online calculator to estimate your resting calorie rate. Try this one http://www.bmi-calculator.net/bmr-calculator/

4. Minimizing Your Calorie Intake Can Make You Stop Losing Weight

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Sure, reducing your calorie intake while burning more calories will make you lose weight, however, you should never lower the number so rapidly or take in too few calories.

Reducing your calorie intake to the minimum (which is too much) can cause your body to turn to a starvation mode, meaning that your metabolism will slow down because your body is saving energy by storing fat.

This can totally block your weight loss process and lead to long-term illnesses.
Ideally, you should neither consume too many calories nor too few calories. Most professionals recommend to never eat less than 1,200 a day.

5. The Calorie-Burn Counts on Gym Machines can be Incorrect by 20%

The Calorie-Burn Counts on Gym Machines can be Incorrect by 20 percent

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Shocking, but true.
Gym machine, including elliptical, stair-climber, treadmill, and other ones, usually have built-in calorie counters, however, they’re not accurate on the number of calories you’re truly burning while exercising.

As stated in a study from the Human Performance Center at the University of San Francisco, exercise machines in the gym often overestimate calorie burn by 20% on average, while elliptical machines particularly overestimated calorie burn by 42% or more.

Using exercise machines is really helpful in burning calories, you just don’t have to rely too much on the numbers you see on them.
Also, don’t use this as an excuse not to exercise.