s/o Calories weight/height

[circa1978]

I don't care how many calories you eat, personally, but I'm interested in how many people are bringing their height into things.

Muscle mass helps you burn calories. Calorie trackers mostly factor in how much you currently weigh to come up with their recommendations. But people look a million different ways at, like, 5'0 and 125 pounds, so how much does height really have to do with how many calories you can or should consume? Doesn't it have more to do with a person's individual metabolism?

- Signed, 5'4 and currently chubby

[lightbulbsun]

Height doesn't have as much to do with it as other factors (current weight/age/sex). I checked mine for 5'8 (my height) and 5'0 and it was only 50 cals different.

And when you use those calculators it's just a starting point. Everyone is different and people may have to tweak the number to find what they're gaining/losing/maintaining at.

ETA: I'm going by a BMR calculator result.