Assignment: Calorie Counting and Expenditure Exploration For this assignment you will keep track of your food intake during a 24-hour period. Be sure to write down everything you eat, no matter how small or seemingly insignificant. You do not need to record water and zero-calorie beverages that you drink.

Be sure to record the calories in the food items you eat as well.

Item of food Portion size Calories Meal

Total calories for 24 hours

Activity Journal

Resting Energy Calculation:

Male/Female

Age range _

Calculation you need to make – example: (17.5 x body weight) + 651

_

Your resting calorie expenditure: _

Now keep track of all your physical activity for the same 24 hour period. Be sure to record the number of calories you used while performing each activity as well.

Activity Duration Calories used

Total calories used in 24 hours: resting calories plus calories used in activities = _

How did your calories in compare to your calories out?