

Refers to how active you are when you’re not at the gym and can be approximated by your job, which is where most of us spend our time.

Here are the top three factors that affect your calorie goal: Calories are also subtracted if you’re trying to shed some weight. Clearly, you don’t do that so calories are added for activity. The BMR is how many calories you’d burn if you did nothing but stayed horizontal and binge-watched Netflix for 24 hours straight. Mifflin does a decent job of predicting BMR from just your height, weight, gender and age. Jeor equations to estimate your basal metabolic rate (BMR).

The first time you use MyFitnessPal can feel like a veritable crystal ball - enter your height, weight, gender, the first time you had birthday cake and … sha-bam! Your daily calorie goal.
