Maintenance Calories...Error? Topic


How are maintenance calories calculated? Is there an error?

If I have a sedentary lifestyle, would my maintenance calories be
MBR + Sedentary Lifestyle Calories?

My BMR is roughly 2027cals

My maintenance calories seem HIGH, over 2900 (about 2970), and the reason I say this is the following...

Garmin Step Calorie bonus = Garmin Step Calories - Sedentary Calories

Garmin provided a step bonus of 424cals
MND says over a 15 hour period, my sedentary calories is 105 cal, = 7cal/hr
So MND gave a calories bonus of 424-105 = 319 to avoid duplicating active calories.

Doesn't that mean MND maintenance calories should be BMR + (7cal/hr*24hrs) = 2195. 2195 is a lot lower than the over 2900 calories MND is stating is my maintenance weight.

If the maintenance weight calories is correct, than the Step Calorie bonus looks wrong, and in fact should be a negative value taking away the bonus and even more.

2970 Maintenance - 2027 BMR = 943cals.
calories / 24hours = 39.29cals/hr.

So in the step calorie example above, wouldn't the bonus be 424 - (39.29cals/hr*15hrs) = -165.35 calories.

This would basically be telling MND that i'm LESS active than it's assuming and make the corrections.

What is going on?

I read a previous post that Garmin does things a bit whacky as MND doesn't know how Garmin calculates BMR. When in actuality, Garmin uses RMR, not BMR.
In any case, this shouldn't matter because Garmin separates RMR calories from active calories, and passes active calories to MNV.
RMR includes calories burned during digestion, where BMR does not.


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Maintenance Calories...Error?