Adjust Calories Burn with Cerebral Palsy

[DanielJH]

IIs there a way to adjust calorie burns for indiviuals with mild cerebral palsy?

I know that I burn way more than a normal person body. I have measure my in take being over 9500 calories in a day with little or no weight gain. Also, I was not exercising during that period. My body's muscles are natural always stiff and are always fighting against another. This will not increase my heart rate because my body is so use to it. It been happening for my entire life. Therefore, my heart has always took that into a account.

[SpunDreamer]

I don't know if there is a way to do that, I suspect you are likely to burn more calories per step than I would, as you are working harder for each of your steps

[Heybales · Accepted solution]

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@DanielJH wrote:

IIs there a way to adjust calorie burns for indiviuals with mild cerebral palsy?

I know that I burn way more than a normal person body. I have measure my in take being over 9500 calories in a day with little or no weight gain. Also, I was not exercising during that period. My body's muscles are natural always stiff and are always fighting against another. This will not increase my heart rate because my body is so use to it. It been happening for my entire life. Therefore, my heart has always took that into a account.

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Interesting dilema, and very true.

The only way to perhaps get a better idea - would be to get a RMR test done, metabolic test.

Your increased RMR would be reflected there.

Then Fitbit could have the height stat adjusted so it used the same higher RMR. If it went high enough.

I just helped someone that had a RMR test about 500 above average calculated figure out their adjustment was 8 ft 10 inches - and I'm not sure it goes that high.

That would then apply to all activity that was estimated from RMR, for step-based models.

HR-based model isn't going to be fooled that way as you've observed. Non-HR would actually be better in this case.

Though you could always manually log your workouts - even cardio ones, with a database entry matching your effort, and therefore using the RMR as basis of math.