The site
caloriesperhour.com has lots of useful information on how many calories a body burns, and things like that. To find out how many calories you are burning by doing nothing more than being alive, you need to know your basal metabolism rate (BMR).
That site will
calculate your BMR if you put in your data including weight, height, age-- and sex. It gives widely differing figures depending on if you say you're male or female. For example, I got a BMR of 1,716 kcal by inputting male, but only 1,514 kcal for female, all else being equal.
As a transsexual lady who's been on HRT for two years, I have no idea how my BMR or caloric needs should be rated. The HRT has taken effect slowly on my body: I have breasts grown to about a B cup, and a waist-hip ratio of 8.5. Medical statistics say that for good cardiovascular health a woman's WHR should be <.8, while a man's should be <.95. So regarding physique I'm somewhere in between.
To maintain a healthy weight, we need to know our
daily calorie needs, and adjust our food and activities accordingly. But again, there are only two settings to calculate this: either "male" or "female."
So how are TS people supposed to calculate and interpret such data? Do our numbers fall in between the male and female ranges so that we should split the difference for at least a rough idea?
