Daily Calorie Debate
Discussions center on the accuracy of standard daily calorie intake and expenditure estimates like 2000 kcal, with debates on actual burns for sedentary people, athletes, obese individuals, and factors like metabolism and activity.
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You eat 5000Kcal+ per day? You need like 1/4 of that...
How is ~10% of average daily caloric intake insignificant?
That's roughly between 6000 and 10000 calories
they sure do, the standard 'dosage' is 2k cals per day and they have a calculator (that you have to dig for) if you figure your requirements differ from the 2k cals per day. Nevermind the fact that these types of calculators of woefully inaccurate.
3781!?!?!?Holy shit. My bulking diet is about that, I'm trying to gain weight whilst lifting 3-4x a week.Mental.edit: Looking at the article this isn't accounting for food wastage etc so the real figure is likely a fair bit lower.
like <1% of people are realistically burning 4000+ calories in a day
No, more in the 1000 kcal range.
The problem is that people consume 3300, 4400 or 5500 kcal, not 2200 :)
Cool, please provide how much gasoline I need to eat to generate 2k calories per day without it also killing me
That sounds like less than 1000 calories a day. You must be getting more calories than that or you are very atypical.