Which article did that come from?
Using Berardi's formula, in his No Diet Diet, your RMR comes out to 1911. Multiply that by your activity level (assuming 1.3 here) and the mysterious "diet factor" (of .1 to .15) and get 2112 (at .15).
If you compare that to a Harris-Benedict calculation (assuming you're about 35 years old), you'd come to 3033 cals per day to maintain at the Moderately Active level. You can take 500-1000 cals from that and come pretty close to the Berardi formula result.
So, those numbers don't sound quite so harsh and hard to stick to. I just hope my spreadsheet formula is accurate... I ain't no math wiz!
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