bcm.edu child nutrition calculator
Ok, so after reading about this as a suggestion from some of the posters asking for calorie ranges for teens, I went to try it myself.
If I am not mistaken, it is
http://www.bcm.edu/cnrc/bodycomp/bmiz2.html
I put in my stats: 6'(72 inches), 170 lbs, 19 yo, female, and moderately active
(ex this week: I did a yoga class 60 min, intervals and weights total 65 min, run tomorrow 60min, cardio kickbox saturday 60min, and and walking/abs/light weights sunday, 60min)
I get a WOPPING 2820 calories to maintain!!!
I don't know about anyone else, but this sounds ridiculously high to me. The other calculator, phord, gives me much lower numbers, and it also asks me for age. If I don't put in a body fat number, I get at most 2300-2400 to maintain, and less if I put in what I think my less than optimal body fat percentage is(about 26%)
And I being crazy and used to being underfed, shocked at this number, or is this child's calculator really just a lot less accurate seeing as how its only going to apply to me for 1 more year(before I turn 20 next August?)
Calculators can only give broad averages but I would say that as a young woman who is very tall, reasonably heavy and very active five days out of seven then 2600-2900 really isn't an excessive amount. Teenage metabolisms don't suddenly switch off age 20 or 21... there's a very gradual slow-down. By your mid-twenties, assuming you're the same height, weight and doing the same amount of exercise your energy needs would only come down by 100 or 200 at the most.
Wow. That much is literally a new concept for me.
I think I get about 2000/day without trying, getting less is hard unless I'm very very sedentary that day. No wonder once I gained weight, I found it really hard to lose it.
a) Didn't gain that much to become overweight or obese
and b) Was trying to go a lot lower than 2000!
6'0 tall, 170 and very active gives you 2864 at phord.not shocking at all and pretty consistent with the bcm.edu calculator. your workouts are hrd core by the way, not the typical 30 minutes moderate cardio that people do.
