If you want to succeed in any program for weight loss, you must include both dieting and exercising in your weight loss plan. Dieting alone does not work, neither exercise alone.
In a healthy weight loss program, we need to apply our weight loss plan to both variables in our body weight workouts equations: the calories consumed and calories expended. Here we need to revisit the Harris Benedict equation posted in my BMR calculation article. If you have never been calculated the calories needed to support your daily life activities, now it is the time to plug in your current age, weight and activity level for your weight loss plan.
Let’s use an example for illustration purposes. A man of 45 years old with 90kg in weight and 175cm will get his original BMR calculation figure of 1,868 using the Harris Benedict equation. I do hope you still remember BMR or basal metabolic rate refers to number of calories that our body requires on a daily basis if we stay in bed all day and do nothing. After 4 months on the program for weight loss, this man now weighs 76kg. His BMR equation now is 1,676 .
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