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RealBurn™

2,585

▲ +175 kcal/day vs. your calculator estimate

Live TDEE

Static calc

2,410

RealBurn™

2,585

Updated

Today

  • Measured, not guessed

    Built from your intake plus your RealWeight™ slope.

  • Adapts with you

    When your metabolism shifts, your number shifts too.

  • Outlier-proof

    7-day medians keep one weird day from wrecking it.

ADAPTIVE METABOLISM TRACKING

RealBurn™ — the adaptive TDEE and expenditure calculator that measures your metabolism

Online calorie calculators guess. RealBurn™ measures what your body actually burns each day from your real food logs and your RealWeight™ trend — and updates as your metabolism adapts.

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The problem

Why static calorie calculators fail

A one-time formula can't keep up with a body that changes every week.

Formulas are population averages

Standard TDEE equations can miss your true expenditure by 300–500 calories. You then build an entire plan on that error.

Activity multipliers are a guess

"Moderately active" means something different for everyone. Pick wrong and your deficit is imaginary.

Metabolism adapts, calculators don't

Expenditure shifts during a long cut. A number you calculated in January is wrong by March.

The mechanism

How RealBurn™ measures your true burn rate

  1. Step 1

    Log what you eat

    Intake comes straight from your daily food logs — photo, voice or text. No spreadsheets required.

  2. Step 2

    Compare it to your trend line

    Energy in minus tissue change equals energy out. RealBurn™ solves that equation against your smoothed weight trend, not noisy daily readings.

  3. Step 3

    Targets update automatically

    As your measured expenditure moves, your calorie and macro targets move with it, so your deficit stays real week after week.

~7 days

First estimate

Daily

Recalculated

None

Manual math

$0

Cost to start

RealBurn™ is only as good as the two numbers feeding it. Intake comes from the AI Meal Logger, which turns a photo or a sentence into macros in seconds, and tissue change comes from RealWeight™. Put the two sides together and you get RealBalance™.

Frequently asked questions

What is an adaptive TDEE calculator?

Instead of estimating your total daily energy expenditure from a formula, an adaptive calculator measures it from what actually happened: how much you ate and how your weight trend moved. RealBurn™ recalculates it continuously.

Why is my real TDEE different from an online calculator?

Formulas like Mifflin-St Jeor use age, height, weight and a guessed activity multiplier. They can be off by hundreds of calories. RealBurn™ uses your own intake and trend data, so it reflects your body, not an average body.

How long until RealBurn™ is accurate?

You'll see a first estimate within about a week of consistent weigh-ins and meal logs, and it tightens from there as more data comes in.

Does it adjust when my metabolism adapts?

Yes. If expenditure drifts down during a long deficit or up as you get more active, RealBurn™ picks it up and your calorie targets move with it automatically.

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