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The standard model has a basis in fact. Your body has a certain amount of
energy it burns everyday to keep itself functioning. In order to provide the body
with this energy, you need to eat food (or drink beverages) that provide this
energy.
Have you ever wondered exactly what a 'calorie' is?
A calorie is a simply a unit of measurement of energy.
So, when you eat food, the amount of energy contained in that food is the
number of calories in the food. (Technically, the calories contained in food are
actually measurements of kilo-calories, where each kilo-calorie contains a
thousand calories, but in this e-book we will stick to the common usage of the
term calorie.)
Similarly, when you exercise, the amount of energy used during the exercise is
also measured in calories.
Each day, your body burns a certain number of calories, which consist of the
combination of your basal metabolic rate (or “BMR”) – that is, the number of
calories your body will burn even if you do no activity – plus the amount of energy
you burn doing exercise and other activities.
Similarly, each day your body takes in a certain number of calories from the
foods you eat and the beverages you drink.
The standard model for determining whether you will gain weight or lose weight
on any given day is given by the following formula:
Calories Out = Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) + exercise
Calories In = Food + Drinks
Net Calories = (Calories In) – (Calories Out)
For example, if your BMR is 2000 calories/day and you do 200 calories worth of
exercise, your Calories Out is 2200 for that day.
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