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Work out the starting point.

Eight calculators, no account, nothing stored. Every one shows the formula it used and names the paper it came from, because a number you cannot check is a number you are being asked to believe.

Before you use them

An estimate is a starting point.

They describe averages

Every equation here was fitted to a population. It will describe a room full of people well and any one person in it only roughly. Use the number, then adjust it against what actually happens to you over a fortnight.

They are not a prescription

Nothing on these pages is medical advice or a personalised plan. If you are pregnant, managing a health condition, or working with a dietitian or doctor, theirs is the advice that counts.

Nothing is stored

The arithmetic runs in your browser. Your weight, height and age are not sent to us, saved or logged. If you make a free account, you choose what to bring with you — and it is filed as your own estimate, never as a target somebody set for you.

Then what

A number changes nothing. Logging it does.

The 14-day START HERE challenge is free, needs no equipment, and is built around exactly this — noticing what you actually do before changing any of it.

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