Calorie Buy-Back Calculator

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A free buy-back calculator that converts food calories into the physical activity required to offset them. Enter the ...

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A free buy-back calculator that converts food calories into the physical activity required to offset them. Enter the kcal you ate and your bodyweight; the tool returns the equivalent minutes of walking, rucking, standing, stair-climbing, and other common buy-back activities, with MET values pulled from the Compendium of Physical Activities. Unlike pace-of-eating shame tools, this one frames the buy-back as agency: you ate the slice — here are five honest options for getting back to your target. Renders alongside the formula and citations.

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