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Basal Metabolic Rate: the amount of energy (or calories) your bodies burns without any physical activity.

Basal Metabolic Rate - it's the rate of energy (or calories) used for metabolism, without any physical activity or emotional excitement, and in a comfortable setting.

Basal Metabolic Rate - it's the rate of energy (or calories) used for metabolism, without any physical activity or emotional excitement, and in a comfortable setting.

That can definitely be a bit mind boggling when you first see it lol. Here's the skinny (pun intended). It basically takes the basic amount of calories that it would take for you to survive in a day & then subtracts calories eaten & calories burned from exercise & comes up with your net calorie deficit for the day. Being in the negative is a good thing. Since it take 3500 calories to lose a pound, this gives you a general idea of how much weight you can lose in any given week based on that day's worth of calories. One day my deficit means, at that rate, if I had that deficit every day, then I'd lose about 3 lbs per week. The next day my deficit meant that I'd lost about 2.1 lbs per week. If your goal is to lose 2 to 3 lbs per week, make sure your deficit's every day are giving you that range for approximate weight loss at that speed. I hope I explained that alright. Good luck & feel free to ask me anything else. If I know the answer I'll be glad to help :-)