Built-in calorie calculator in the nutritionist software
From now on you no longer have to laboriously calculate calories. With the calorie calculator in our nutritionist software, you can automatically calculate your customers' individual calorie needs - easily, quickly and reliably.
One of the most important tools in nutritional advice is a reliable calorie calculator. Even though the debate about the importance of calorie requirements continues, the value is still extremely relevant as a guide for your advice. Knowing the value is so important because your customers usually don't know it and are almost always wrong in their self-assessment.
Just estimating calories is not a good idea
Customers who want to lose weight or maintain their weight almost always eat more than their calorie needs and are surprised that they are not losing weight. Conversely, customers who want to gain weight or build muscle usually estimate less than their needs and think they are already eating far too much. In addition, the distribution of macronutrients is always misjudged. Estimating is not knowing.
Calorie calculator for individual calorie needs integrated into the nutritional advice software
The initial value of the calorie requirement that the calorie calculator determines is crucial as an indicator of the permitted amount of calories that should be consumed, depending on the nutritional goal. Natty Gains has developed a calorie calculator integrated into the nutrition software that you can use to calculate your customers' individual calorie needs.
Calorie calculation on autopilot
As a nutritionist, imagine the following situation: You got to know your customer and took an anamnesis with him. Next, you determine your individual calorie needs so that the desired nutritional goal can be achieved. This step is made easy with the calorie calculator in the Natty Gains nutrition software. As part of the digital anamnesis form, you can quickly and intuitively enter questions for your customer about body data, sleep, activity level at work and leisure, and sports, thereby automatically determining the calorie target for the customer.
Advantages of the integrated calorie calculator
Digital calorie calculator
Calorie calculator integrated in the medical history form
Automatic calculation of calorie requirements
You can also set your own calorie and macronutrient target values
Daily balance of calorie intake and nutrient distribution
Overview of target values and difference to calorie intake
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- Just estimating calories is not a good idea
- Calorie calculator for individual calorie needs integrated into the nutritional advice software
- Calorie calculation on autopilot
- Advantages of the integrated calorie calculator
- Calorie calculator in nutritionist software
- Progress monitoring in the nutritional advice software
Calorie calculator in nutritionist software
Regardless of whether your customer wants to lose weight or gain weight: For the best results, it is important to know the customer's individual calorie consumption in order to be able to determine the calorie target. This means that the nutrition plan can be perfectly tailored to the needs of the customer. The calorie target is made up of the basal metabolic rate and performance metabolic rate plus or minus calorie surplus or calorie deficit.
Basal metabolic rate:
This is how many calories the body burns when it is completely at rest, i.e. when sleeping/completely relaxing on the couch.
Performance turnover:
This is additional energy that is required for physical activity, i.e. every single step and every muscular movement.
Total turnover:
The sum of the basic and performance metabolic rate results in the total turnover and thus the daily calorie requirement to maintain weight.
Calorie goal:
Depending on the formulated weight goal, a calorie deficit or calorie surplus is necessary, which is then added or subtracted again and results in the individual calorie goal.
Determine the customer's goal
The first step in the anamnesis form is to determine your customer's goal. Here you choose between 3 basic options: increase performance, manage weight or increase well-being.
Increase performance
Your customer would like to improve their performance - both on a physical and psychological level - and optimally support them through nutrition? Then select “Increase performance” and specify the selection by specifying which sport you want to increase your performance in.
Manage weight
Does your customer want to work on his figure and either gain weight, especially muscles, or lose a few extra pounds in a healthy and sustainable way without having to starve? Perfect, then specify your weight goal in the next step. Here you can choose between the following options: lose weight, muscle definition, muscle building, gain weight, maintain weight.
Increase well-being
Your customer wants to improve their well-being, live healthier and therefore eat more consciously. However, is his/her diet too monotonous? Choose this selection if your customer wants to feel fresher and more energetic, eat a more balanced diet overall or regenerate better through an adapted diet.
Determine client's calorie and macronutrient goals
In the next step, you determine your customer’s calorie needs. Here the medical history form gives you two options: Either you have it calculated using a calorie calculator. Or, if the value is already known, you enter your customer's calorie needs yourself.
You also have the option to freely determine the distribution of the macronutrients proteins, carbohydrates and fats. This makes sense if you have previously carried out a body check or genetic analysis with the customer or specify a special diet in your coaching sessions.
The following formula regarding the distribution of macronutrients is used if you do NOT determine the macronutrients yourself.
- Proteins: 1.5 g / kg body weight
- Fats: 0.7 g / kg body weight
- Carbohydrates: The remaining calories
You have two options for your own modified distribution of macronutrients:
- Set macronutrient distribution in absolute gram values
- Set macronutrients in percentage ratio
Calorie calculator for recording basic physical data
First, you enter your customer's basic physical data into the medical history form using the calorie calculator: gender, age, height and body weight. Based on this data, the calorie calculator in the nutrition software determines your customer's basal metabolic rate, i.e. the calorie consumption that the body needs to maintain vital functions. These include, among other things, maintaining body temperature, breathing and organ functions.
The Harris-Benedict formula is used to calculate the basal metabolic rate.
- For women: 655.1 + (9.6 x body weight in kg) + (1.8 x height in cm) – (4.7 x age in years)
- For men: 66.47 + (13.7 x body weight in kg) + (5 x height in cm) – (6.8 x age in years)
Sleep
Sleep duration and sleep quality affect the entire daily routine. If we don't sleep or sleep too little, the function of our brain is greatly affected. Memory performance decreases, as well as the ability to concentrate, reaction speed, determination and endurance. We also lose the sense of time, space and planning.
Sleep also influences our emotions, our physical health and of course our regeneration. As a result, poor and too little sleep has a negative impact on our mood and our stamina. Good sleep, on the other hand, ensures more energy, a healthy body and improved regeneration.
Calorie calculator to record the customer's activity level
Beyond the basic metabolic rate, every other activity counts towards the performance turnover. The questions about recording activity levels are relevant if you use a calorie calculator to calculate your customer's calorie goal. The power turnover is calculated using the 'metabolic equivalent' (MET).
Calorie calculator for work activity level
By determining the activity level at work, you indicate in the calorie calculator how much the customer moves at work and therefore burns calories.
Mostly sitting
Examples of occupations that involve mostly sedentary jobs include: office job, precision mechanic, school student, driving a vehicle in traffic, teacher, judge, etc.
Sitting and standing
Examples of careers that alternate between sitting and standing jobs include: police officer, doctor, househusband, warehouse worker, cashier, etc.
Mostly standing
Examples of occupations for predominantly permanent occupations include: light trades (e.g. electrical or painting business), car mechanic, salesperson in retail, nursing professions, social work, etc.
Hard physical
Examples of occupational work involving heavy physical work include: heavy trades, construction workers, roofers, agricultural, animal and forestry jobs, miners, high-performance athletes, etc.
Calorie calculator for leisure activity level
By determining the activity level in your free time, you indicate in the calorie calculator how much the customer moves in their free time and therefore burns calories.
Hardly active
After work, your customer prefers to put his feet up and usually travels by car or train. His leisure activities are mainly limited to watching TV, internet, reading, gaming and generally relaxing.
Quite active
In his free time, your customer does household chores, also likes to go for a walk outside the house and raise the children. He also likes to ride his bike or walk to get from A to B.
Very active
For example, your customer regularly cycles or walks and uses his free time to do sports, go dancing and be active. Typical activities in his free time are: sports, dancing, climbing stairs, heavy gardening, etc.
Sport
In order to be holistically fit and healthy, an exercise and training concept plays an important role alongside nutrition. In this step, you coordinate training and nutrition and select your client's primary sport as well as the sports days.
Endurance sports
Typical examples of endurance sports include jogging, cycling and swimming at low intensity.
Strength training
Typical examples of strength training are bodybuilding or strength training in the gym or at home. But CrossFit or exercises with your own body weight, such as freeletics or calisthenics, are also included.
Another low-impact sport
Typical examples of low-impact sports include yoga, tai chi, golf or ping pong.
Another medium-impact sport
Typical examples of medium-impact sports include football, tennis, squash, badminton or horse riding.
Another high-impact sport
Typical examples of high-impact sports include HIIT, boxing, handball, intensive swimming or athletics.
Not at all
Choose this option if your customer doesn't do any sports at all.
Sport days
After you have determined in the anamnesis form which type of sport the customer primarily practices, the next step is to select how often and on which days of the week they do sport. To do this, activate the corresponding days of the week.
Additional function
Progress monitoring in the nutritional advice software
Nothing motivates your clients more than making progress towards their nutritional goals. So that you can monitor your progress, it is documented using the progress monitoring function within the nutrition software. This makes it possible for you as a coach to clearly and digitally document your client's development, e.g. weight loss towards their weight loss goal, in a graphic chart. This allows you to quickly recognize your customer's upward and downward developments and to readjust your nutritional advice if development stagnates or even declines, because only the success of your customers is also your success.
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