budget {nutrition}R Documentation

Calorie budget

Description

Calculates a calorie budget

Usage

budget(wt_delta_per_week, bmr)

Arguments

wt_delta_per_week

expected change in weight per week

bmr

Basal Metabolic Rate, in kilocalories

Value

Calorie targets per day

Author(s)

Waldir Leoncio

References

https://help.loseit.com/hc/en-us/articles/115007245847-How-the-Calorie-Budget-is-Calculated

Examples

BMR <- bmr(66, 40, .12, 178, method = "kma")
budget(0, BMR) # for weight maintenance with a weekend bonus
budget(.25, BMR) # for a slight weight gain

[Package nutrition version 1.1.0 Index]