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BMR explained: the free calories your body burns at rest

BMR explained: the free calories your body burns at rest

BMR is the energy your body burns just to stay alive — heart, lungs, brain, kidneys — while you lie still. It is about 60 to 70 percent of everything you burn each day, and Burnie subtracts it as the big baseline in your deficit.

13 Jul 2026 · Burnie Academy
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Your body burns calories even when you do nothing. Lying in bed, your heart still beats. Your lungs still breathe. Your brain still thinks. That resting burn has a name: BMR, short for Basal Metabolic Rate. It is the biggest chunk of energy you spend each day — bigger than your walk, your workout, or your digestion. In Burnie, BMR is the big baseline that gets subtracted before anything else.

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