Amputee Limits

Josh_Brolin

How would you calculate how much of everything you would need in a day if you are missing a limb? Would that throw off the calculator and give you the wrong results?

Hilary

Hi @Josh_Brolin there is another thread discussing this, that you can have a look at! https://forums.cronometer.com/discussion/comment/1770#Comment_1770

Unfortunately, I don't have a good answer for this, but I would suggest using a wearable activity tracker to estimate calories burned, as standard MET calculations used in Cronometer's exercise database, will probably be slightly off.

Susan_RD_101

The best approach would be to get your resting metabolic rate measured. You can also approximate your calorie needs by determining estimated body weight loss (EBWL). This is a really handy calculator for determining this value:

https://clincalc.com/Kinetics/EBWL.aspx

Kind regards,