{"id":9071,"date":"2011-02-14T08:38:44","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T14:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/?p=9071"},"modified":"2011-02-17T11:17:35","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T17:17:35","slug":"calories-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/2011\/02\/14\/calories-needed\/","title":{"rendered":"How Many Calories Do I Need?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Today\u2019s current \u201cguru\u201d books and gym equipment all can tell you how many calories you\u00a0 need a day or are burning, but they are all based off of common ground and are not that precise.\u00a0 In fact, if you are at all serious about understanding how to achieve your own personal weight gain\/loss it would be very very effective for you to go out and get a\u00a0Skin Fold Caliper<\/a>\"\".<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t be fooled by the fancy (and scary name).\u00a0 This amazingly simple device will give you a quick and easy body fat test which tell you 2 things:<\/p>\n

1. How much of you is muscle
\n2 .How much of you is fat<\/p>\n

How can this help you?\u00a0 Let me use my extremely terrible basic math skills to explain.\u00a0 Someone who is 150 pounds who finds out their body fat to be 15% would then carry 85% msucle.\u00a0 That is if 15% of him were fat then 85% is muscle.\u00a0 So a 150 pound person walking around with 15% fat would have 22.5 pounds of body fat and 128 pounds of muscle mass.\u00a0 With me so far?<\/p>\n

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\nSo someone with 127 pounds of lean body mass will require approximately 1270 calories a day, at complete rest.\u00a0 This number is called the basal metabolism (\u201cBM\u201d for us non-nerdy people).\u00a0 BM is the total number of calories required daily to maintain muscle mass and to provide fuel for the organs and brain.\u00a0 Basically it is the bare minimum to maintain life.\u00a0 So as you can see the greater the muscle mass, the greater the basal metabolism.<\/p>\n

This is great information when trying to figure out how many calories YOU need for YOUR diet, not some generic diet for the common person your age.<\/p>\n

You think you got more \u201cMuscle Mass\u201d then me?\u00a0 I\u2019m gonna grab my\u00a0SKIN FOLD CALIPER\u00a0and I\u2019ll see YOU outside… as I get in my car and drive away.\u00a0 Leave notes cause they make me happy.<\/p>\n

Resource: Information pulled directly from Everything You Need To Know About Fat Loss<\/a>\"\" by Chris Aceto.<\/p>\n

Learn more about how Calculate Body Fat<\/a> or your\u00a0Daily Calorie Needs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Today\u2019s current \u201cguru\u201d books and gym equipment all can tell you how many calories you\u00a0 need a day or are burning, but they are all based off of common ground and are not that precise.\u00a0 In fact, if you are at all serious about understanding how to achieve your own […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,1515,1517,1516,23,225,93,1518,21],"class_list":["post-9071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-amy-mac","tag-body-fat-calculator","tag-calories-intake","tag-calories-needed","tag-fit-life","tag-fitness-tips","tag-health-and-fitness","tag-measuring-body-fat","tag-withamymac"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}