📚 Part 1: Understanding Energy Balance

1. What are calories?

A type of vitamin

A unit of energy

A type of food

A nutrient

2. Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) is:

Calories burned during exercise only

Calories burned while sleeping

Calories your body needs at rest to function

Calories from food you eat

3. Which factors affect your Total Daily Energy Expenditure (TDEE)? Check all that apply:

Your age

Your physical activity level

Your favourite colour

Your height and weight

Your BMR

4. A calorie surplus means:

Eating fewer calories than you burn

Eating more calories than you burn

Eating exactly the calories you burn

Not eating any calories

🧮 Part 2: Calculate Your Energy Needs

5. Using the online calculator provided by your teacher, record your estimated values:

My estimated BMR: _____________ calories per day

My estimated TDEE: _____________ calories per day

Activity level I selected: _________________________________

6. Compare your TDEE with a classmate. What differences do you notice and why might they exist?

7. Fill in the blanks using the words: surplus, deficit, maintenance

a) To maintain your current weight, eat at _____________ calories (your TDEE).

b) To support muscle building, you might need a calorie _____________.

c) For fat loss, you might create a calorie _____________.

💭 Part 3: Reflection and Application

8. Explain what "energy balance" means to you in your own words:

9. How does thinking about calories as "fuel" rather than something "good" or "bad" change your perspective on food?

10. Based on what you learned today, identify one way you might use this knowledge to support your health or fitness goals:

11. Exit Card: Write one key takeaway or question you still have about energy balance:

Energy Balance and Calories

Energy Balance and Calories

📚 Part 1: Understanding Energy Balance

🧮 Part 2: Calculate Your Energy Needs

💭 Part 3: Reflection and Application

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