Total daily energy expenditure, or TDEE, is just jargon for what most of us know as metabolism. In simpler terms, it’s about understanding how your body burns energy throughout the day.

TDEE stands for total daily energy expenditure. Think of it as your overall metabolism — or how many calories you burn when resting, eating, exercising, and simply existing.

Body composition and total daily energy expenditure are the two factors that determine your basal metabolic rate. You burn calories just by living. That's right, just reading this burns calories.

Methods: The energy expenditure of a male competitor in a single-handed, transatlantic race (Transat 2004) was assessed using the doubly-labelled water technique. Results: Mean total daily energy ...

BMR represents roughly 75% of daily energy expenditure. This can influence the energy an individual requires depending on their age, gender, body size and composition (as explained below).

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