BMR Calculator ? : Community Message Boards
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cathymb
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Wed, Feb 3, 2010 18:02
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BMR Calculator ?
I have been looking around at other sights and using their BMR calculators and have found the Fit Click calculator to be around 225 points higher than the average on the other sites. Is there any way to adjust this number?
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ciscojoe
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Fri, Feb 5, 2010 16:02
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Same Question - Is this adjustable?
Seems a little high to me also.
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amethystrse
East Meadow NY
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Fri, Feb 5, 2010 17:02
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from what I can tell...
I noticed this too. for me it's over 300 calories too high. One of the BMR calculators I found online also had a spot to adjust based on lifestyle. I think that maybe fitclick takes our lifestyle (you marked it when you signed up and can change it under "account") and makes an adjustment based on that.
*hugs*
Jess
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justgoingheavy
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Fri, Feb 5, 2010 18:02
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i found that bmr are harder then most think
i was told by a book joe weider and i think wykipedia that bmr have to be study for a week of monitoring tyour sleeping and all that hooked up to wires to be correct. you really got to go to a proffesional.
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FitClick
Vienna VA
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Mon, Feb 15, 2010 12:02
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FitClick BMR
We looked at these calculations, and the difference has to do with how how we use and define BMR.
The FitClick BMR includes an activity factor while the definition of BMR does not include any such activity factor. As mentioned above in other posts, BMR is the calories you need if you stay in bed and don't move at all). But we viewed BMR by itself as inaccurate since no one stays in bed all day and doesn't move, so an activity factor was added for everyday activity. So when users see this number they are comparing it to the BMR calculators that don't include activity factor and that is why it differs.
However, FitClick needs to be clearer about this on the "BMR" calculator page. And we discovered that we need a better
way to edit BMR, because BMR is only calculated during registration. We'll build an updater tool and add some descriptive information to explain how we calculate BMR (as we feel we are actually more accurate than other BMR calculators out there).
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