Knowing Your Resting Metabolism

We are all told losing weight is easy: simply eat less calories than you take in! Unfortunately, some people take this advice and starve themselves to be absolutely sure they are not consuming more calories than they burn during the day. What most people don't know is too LITTLE calories can be just as bad for your health as eating too MANY calories. Your body is a finely tuned machine, whether you choose to treat it so or not. The human body burns calories simply being alive. Your Resting Metabolic Rate is the amount of calories you would burn just lounging around all day with no activity. If your food intake is below your RMR, your body will in fact SLOW down your metabolism you work so hard to increase in the gym. In order to slow the metabolism down, the body focuses on utilizing energy for the most important functions like brain and heart function. In this case the reproductive, immune and muscular systems take a backseat to nourishment and in turn suffer. Chronic under feeding will lead you to feeling fatigued, loss of muscle mass due to the body's desperate need for calories, weaken your immune system and may even lead you to storing more body fat as the body attempts to conserve calories as much as possible. Your RMR is the MINIMUM amount of calories you should be eating a day. You want to avoid eating below your RMR at all times because it is detrimental to your metabolism and your body. How do you find your Resting Metabolic Rate? Visit my BombergerPT.com homepage and click "Calcs". This will lead you to an RMR and daily caloric needs estimator. Enjoy!