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Originally Posted by key tones
To get the amount of calories exercise truly burns, you have to *subtract* lthe amount you burn just being alive and sitting around. Most of your calories are burned just being alive. It’s the basal metabolic rate.
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Yes, this is true. But what is interesting is that the more percentage fat content that your body has, it’s basal metabolic rate will be less. I ended up playing with a calculator that calculates BMR. Unlike others on the net, this also uses percent body fat as part of its calculations. Other websites calculated my BMR to be a bit more than 1,700. This calculator has my BMR at about 1,500 calories. When I increase the percentage of body fat, the BMR went down further. But this is still a significant amount of calories to subtract.