Wits & Weights | Fat Loss, Nutrition, & Strength Training for Lifters How to Estimate Your Metabolism ACCURATELY (The Best Way to Calculate Calories) | Ep 363
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Stop letting inaccurate metabolism estimates sabotage your nutrition goals.
The fitness industry has convinced us that estimating metabolism requires expensive tests, fancy gadgets, or complex formulas, but there's one method that cuts through the noise using evidence, engineering, and efficiency.
Your fitness tracker says you burned 3,200 calories, online calculators recommend 2,400 for maintenance, and your metabolic test shows 1,850 RMR. They're all probably wrong.
Discover the one method gives you your actual daily calorie burn with scientific precision so you can run your next fat loss or muscle building phase confidently and with success.
Main Takeaways:
- Your metabolism has 4 components that fluctuate constantly
- Online calculators can be off by 300-600 calories per person
- Fitness trackers have 27-93% error rates for energy expenditure
- The only accurate method is to track calorie intake + trend weight over 3-4 weeks to reverse-engineer your actual TDEE
- This approach is self-correcting, personalized, adaptive, and works even with imperfect food logging
Episode Resources:
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Timestamps:
0:01 - Why most metabolism estimates are completely wrong
6:30 - Online calculators
9:10 - Fitness trackers and wearables
10:43 - RMR testing
12:29 - Measuring inputs/outputs vs. mechanisms/effects
15:10 - How to calculate your real TDEE
23:38 - My favorite app that does this for you
26:08 - Imperfect food logging, water weight, and metabolic issues
30:40 - Why you should start tracking TODAY
31:48 - Becoming the scientist
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