Mifflin-St Jeor BMR
Uses the most widely recommended modern BMR formula for accuracy across body types.
Calorie Calculator helps you estimate how many calories to eat per day to maintain, lose, or gain weight based on your body and activity. Enter the required values, review the result instantly, and adjust the inputs until the number matches the decision you are making. The tool is designed for quick checks on mobile or desktop, with clear labels, practical examples, and no account required.
Enter your age, weight, and height to see your maintenance calories and goal targets.
Estimates use the Mifflin-St Jeor equation, the most widely recommended BMR formula. These are starting estimates, not medical advice. Daily intake below about 1,200 kcal (women) or 1,500 kcal (men) is generally not advised without professional supervision.
Calorie Calculator is a free online calculator for people who need a fast, readable answer without opening a spreadsheet. Enter your gender, age, weight in kilograms, height in centimetres, and how active you are. The tool finds your basal metabolic rate, scales it by activity, and lists daily targets for each goal. The page keeps the inputs visible above the result, so you can change one value and immediately see how the final number moves. That makes it useful for founders, freelancers, students, marketers, operations teams, and anyone preparing a simple estimate during a conversation.
The calculator follows the same lightweight pattern as the other free tools on RohanSurve.in: it uses plain inputs, a compact result card, and explanatory sections below the widget. BMR uses the Mifflin-St Jeor equation (10 × weight in kg + 6.25 × height in cm − 5 × age, then +5 for men or −161 for women); maintenance calories equal BMR multiplied by an activity factor from 1.2 (sedentary) to 1.9 (very active). The goal is not to replace a full finance model or analytics dashboard. It is to give you the reliable first-pass number you need before you decide whether a deeper spreadsheet, invoice, report, or official document is worth preparing.
The calculation runs entirely in your browser. Your age, weight, height, and other details are not uploaded to a server. You can paste or type draft numbers freely, clear the fields, and repeat the calculation as many times as needed. For Indian users, money-related examples use ₹ formatting and practical business language so the output feels familiar for invoices, ecommerce offers, agency retainers, ad budgets, and small-business planning.
Uses the most widely recommended modern BMR formula for accuracy across body types.
Shows maintenance plus mild, standard, and aggressive loss and gain targets in one view.
Five activity levels from sedentary to very active adjust maintenance calories to your routine.
You see both calories at rest and total daily needs, which makes the numbers easy to understand.
Calorie Calculator is most useful when the input values are simple and the question is well defined. The result should be treated as a decision aid: it helps you understand a relationship between values, estimate an outcome, or verify a number someone shared with you. If the calculation affects tax filings, payroll, legal documents, or audited financial statements, use this result as a quick check and confirm the final number in your official workflow.
The core formula is: BMR uses the Mifflin-St Jeor equation (10 × weight in kg + 6.25 × height in cm − 5 × age, then +5 for men or −161 for women); maintenance calories equal BMR multiplied by an activity factor from 1.2 (sedentary) to 1.9 (very active). This formula is intentionally shown in plain language because many mistakes happen when people mix up base values, totals, percentages, and time periods. Reading the formula once before entering data usually prevents the most common errors and makes the output easier to explain to a client, teammate, or manager.
Input
male, 30 years, 70 kg, 175 cm, moderate activityOutput
BMR ≈ 1,649 kcal; maintenance ≈ 2,556 kcal; weight loss (0.5 kg/week) ≈ 2,056 kcalSubtracting 500 kcal/day from maintenance targets roughly 0.5 kg of weight loss per week.
Most people overestimate activity. If unsure, choose one level lower and adjust after a couple of weeks of real data.
A 250–500 kcal daily deficit is sustainable for most people. Larger deficits are harder to maintain and can cost muscle.
Calorie needs fall as you lose weight, so recalculate every few kilograms to keep the target accurate.
Use the estimate as a starting point, then adjust based on how your weight actually trends.
Formulas give a population average. Your real needs can vary by a few hundred calories, so adjust from observed results.
Very low intakes are hard to sustain and can reduce muscle and metabolism. Stay above the recommended floors.
Enter weight in kilograms and height in centimetres. Using pounds or inches will produce wrong numbers.
Yes. Calorie Calculator is free to use in your browser, with no signup, no installation, and no API key required.
No. The calculation runs locally in the browser. Your entered values are not intentionally uploaded for the calculation.
Yes. Numeric fields accept decimal values where decimals make sense. For dates, use the browser date picker so the calculator can read the value consistently.
Use a spreadsheet when you need many rows, chained formulas, approvals, audit history, or a calculation that depends on several changing assumptions.
Calorie Calculator gives you a fast, practical result without setup, so you can move from guessing to checking in a few seconds.