Hello and welcome to the ESG Fitness podcast.

I'm very excited to have you here.

Today's podcast is about calorie calculators and why people are or seem to be obsessed with them.

I am literally, I'm often asked the question.

I was going to say I'm literally inundated with people asking me the question,

which calorie calculator should I use?

Who has the most accurate one?

Should I use XPTs or XPTs?

It doesn't matter. And they're likely all using the same equation anyway.

So it doesn't matter if you go to XPT's website or XPT's website. They simply want your email address

and then they will send you emails. That's why they have a calorie calculator on their site. Fine. Great way to

get interest and get your email address. You could also just Google calorie calculator

because they're probably using one of two equations, either the Harris Benedict equation or the

Mifflin equation.

It doesn't really matter because neither of them are accurate

and they are simply giving you a start point.

It's actually one on my website now,

along with an explanation of the fact that it is just a start point.

So if you want to use that, then crack on

esg fitness.com.uk. So the reason why your calorie target potentially hasn't worked for you

is that it has told you what to do, and not even in a particularly accurate way, but not how to do it.

So it's given you half of the puzzle, or you have the car but you don't have any fuel,

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