just wondering what effect having a cold has on my BMR. I can't seem to find anything much on the web about it.
As as aside I found this data on the WWW
According to a 2000 study published in Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, you can calculate the number of calories you burn if you have a few key pieces of information.
* multiplying your body weight in kilograms by 3.5. Multiply the product of this equation by a metabolic equivalent intensity level, or MET. Then divide the entire product by 200. MET is a value that represents the calorie-burning potential of an activity. Walking has a MET of 2.5. Bodily function with no additional activity is assigned a MET of 1. This is known as your basal metabolic rate, or BMR. The equation to figure your BMR can be expressed as: (MET x body weight in kg. x 3.5)/200 = calories burned per minute. If you weigh 220 lbs., which is about 100 kg, you burn around 1.75 calories per minute or 105 calories per hour.
which comes in very much like what the Vivofit seems to produce. I guess its using the same calculation
