Woman & Home South Africa

Your health

Q I’m 59 and need to lose some weight, so I recently bought a fitness monitor. I put all my details into the app, and I was really surprised to see that I only need around 5 500kJ a day to maintain my weight. Surely this isn’t enough? I thought that’s what you eat to lose weight!

A Your basal metabolic rate (BMR) –

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