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How much energy do you need to eat? It can seem like a very complicated question, especially once you layer over the information that is in the media each week on what’s good to eat and what’s not and the various dietary approach out there that manipulate intake.
The good news is, if you look at this all very objectively, it’s not too complicated. There are a few concepts that you should know when looking at your daily energy intake and expenditure, but once you get your head around the terms, it’s a matter of doing some quick calculations, and you can figure out how much energy you should be having each and make sure you stay in balance.
To start, there are four main ‘buckets’ which make up our Total Daily Energy Expenditure (TDEE, what we spend energy on each day) :
- Energy Expended on the basic metabolic functions that keep us alive (our Resting Metabolic Rate, or RMR)
- Energy expended while digesting and absorbing our food
- Energy expended doing basic daily activities like standing up
- Energy expended doing planned exercise
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