Weight Maintenance Calories (WMC) are daily food calories needed to consume to maintain your current body weight. To lose weight, set your Calorie Budget lower than the maintenance level.
Our apps use EER (Estimated Energy Requirements) method to calculate the default WMC value. However, subscription allows switching to RMR (Resting Metabolic Rate,) BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate) calculated from Body Fat %, or BMR calculated with Mifflin St. Jeor Equation. Prelmium-level clients can choose to enter the custom WMC value.
The default WMC value calculated by the EER method includes the following parameters: age, biological sex, physical activity level, current body weight, and height.
The RMR method requires your input of measured value. It's the rate at which your body burns energy at complete rest (calories your body needs to perform basic functions like breathing and circulation.) Using calculators is not recommended, as it will be less accurate than Estimated Energy Requirement Calculation. This method uses an "Activity Factor" - multiplier to calculate estimated Weight Maintenance Calories and requires direct measurement of RMR input:
People with iPhones can track Resting Energy in the Apple Health app. However, the customers who linked our app with Apple Health cannot automatically get Resting Energy data in our app. Resting Energy tracker is not in the list of trackers available in sync between Apple Health and our iOS app.
BMR can be calculated by the Katch-McArdle formula if you've measured your body fat percentage and by the Mifflin-St. Jeor formula if you don't know it.
Various other methods exist. Yet dietitians have concerns about their accuracy by comparing with the ones mentioned above. If our standard EER and three additional methods of WMC calculation do not fit, alternatively, you can input your custom value.
You can also customize your formula online:
