How to Determine How Many Calories You Burn a Day

Knowing how to calculate the calories you burn each day is an important step in maintaining, losing or gaining weight. What you eat and drink, in combination with the physical exercise you engage in, plays a part in determining how much you weigh. So knowing how many calories you burn will help determine how much you should eat eat and drink, and how much you should exercise.

Instructions

• 1

  Weigh yourself to obtain your current weight. Preferably use a scale that you will have access to for future weigh-ins.

• 2

  Measure your height. Make sure to record the exact feet and inches for the most accurate measurement; do not round up or down.

• 3

  Go to the website http://nutritiondata.self.com/tools/calories-burned to record the weight and height that you measured. Also add in your gender, age and activity level.

• 4

  Click the Calculate button to receive the estimated number of calories you burn daily. The result is based on what you entered into the form, so the more accurate you are the more accurate your results.