Your daily calories depend on your age, gender, weight, height, and physical activity. Discover the formula for calculating the recommended daily calorie intake to maintain your current weight.
Every day, your body needs energy to function and carry out its missions properly. This energy is provided for us by the food we eat. And it is expressed in calories.
What is the energy balance?
The calorie intake of each food is indicated in its packaging. It’s all about balance:
if if you absorb more calories than you spend, in other words, if you eat more than you expend, weight gain is inevitable, because you will store unused energy.
On the other hand, if you expend more calories than you absorb, you lose weight, because the body draws on its energy reserves (energy deficit). This is the famous “energy balance”.
Daily calorie expenditure, or daily energy expenditure, naturally varies from person to person. Several parameters are taken into account, such as age, sex, morphology (weight, height) and level of physical activity. At the same weight and height, a 30-year-old who works in front of a screen without exercising does not have the same daily energy needs (BEJ) as a 30-year-old who goes to the gym every day. If the first expends, for example, 1,900 calories a day, it does not need to absorb 2,300, or else it risks gaining weight. The calorie requirement of the second is, on the other hand, more important, because it also expands more.
