Welcome to this episode of body performance. I am Steve Turano. I have always said that weight gain is a slow gradual process that we consume or utilize a majority of the food that we take in and we should give people who are sort of obsessed about eating a little piece of mind that again, most of the calories that you take in are burned up through out the day.
Now how are these calories burned up? I am going to tell you about 60% to 70% to your calories that you take in through the day are burned up through your BMR or your Base Metabolic Rate. And that is basically the amount of calories that you need just to lie in bed and breath. Now these calories are consumed typically through metabolic activities breathing, growing hair, making spit and really tissue repair, repairing and maintaining your body about 60% to 70% that your calories go to that.
Another 10% to 15% of your calories go to digestion. Taking in and braking down your food and then converting it to energy. Again that will depend on how big you are, how much you eat and what you eat put about 10% to 15% of the calories go to that. So that leaves about 15% to 30% of you calories to be consumed or lies through movement, through exercise or normal daily movement.
Now let us split that number in half and say 15% goes to exercise and 15% is utilized through daily movement. So this means about 85% of your calories if you take in through the day are burned up through metabolic activity through digestion and through normal movement. So that leaves only about 15% of your calories that are unburned that you have burn through exercise and again it might be little less. So that should give you some type of peace of mind knowing that I just got a burned about 10% of the calories I take in through out the day to maintain my weight, to not gain any weight.
Now if you gain weight in the past you might not have to exercise a little bit more to burn that weight off. But once you get down to your target weight to prevent any weight gain all you have to do is exercise and burn up those last one to two hundred calories that is not bad. So, about 10% to 15% of your calories need to be re burned up through exercise. Love your body. I will see next time.
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