Health & Fitness
kjewell
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Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
BMR?
Is there a way to figure out an estimate of your bmr? I had someone give me a formula that I tried at it came out at 1924 calories. Perhaps it is possible but that just seemed ridiculously high to me.
Is there an actual formula to figure this out or is it bs that you can plug in numbers yourself and know?
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Re: BMR?
http://www.bmi-calculator.net/bmr-calculator/bmr-formula.php
Sorry, for some reason I can't link it.
http://www.bmi-calculator.net/bmr-calculator/ is a decent calculator, or you can try some of the formulas on wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basal_metabolic_rate
Once you have an approximate BMR, you can use the Harris Benedict equation to figure out how many calories you really burn every day (as opposed to BMR which is what you burn if you don't move around at all). I tend to use the "sedentary" option, which is BMR*1.2 as my base, then eat back any extra calories I burn. However, these formulas only give you an estimate, it's possible that your metabolism is faster or slower, and you may have to tweak your number up or down to get results (assuming you're trying to lose weight).