The Maintenance Calories Calculator is used to calculate, based on
certain physical and activity criteria, the number of calories needed to
maintain your current weight.
Before entering any values here, note that by default entries are in
English units. Click Metric if you want to use metric units.
Select Calculation Mode - select the calculation method here.
Just enter your weight (in pounds or kilograms if in Metric mode)
and your body fat percentage.
Enter your weight (pounds or kilograms),
height (inches or centimeters) age and gender.
Once you have calculated your BMR using one of the modes above,
select the appropriate Activity Level
from the drop down list at the bottom. Your maintenance calories value will
display.
You can calculate a desired daily caloric intake for weight gain or loss
using the caloric goal calculator included here. For weight loss, click the
minus button and enter caloric reduction percentage, usually between
10 and 20 percent. For weight gain, click plus.
Click the Set Goal button to invoke the
The Goal Calculator with your calculated
caloric value.