> while one of my golden rules is to never trust any scale that lacks a base unit. BMR is a very real thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basal_metabolic_rate

> while one of my golden rules is to never trust any scale that lacks a base unit. BMR is a very real thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basal_metabolic_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basal_metabolic_rate > It is reported in energy units per unit time ranging from watt (joule/second) to ml O2/min or joule per hour per kg body mass J/(h·kg). There has been plenty of research into this, see this study into the variance among people for example: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15534426/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15534426/ If you do the math, you'll find that the resting number of calories people burn will vary by a few hundred per day based on their metabolism. I agree that there is too much woo around the science of weight loss but at the same time we don't need to act like there aren't real facts that we do know.