FatCalc

Calculators for Body Fat and Weight Management

The main theme of this app is body fat, an excess of which could lead to diabetes, hypertension and coronary artery disease. Use the online calculators in this app to make a personal assessment of your health risk status and manage your weight. Click on any of the cards below to open a calculator for the type of calculation you wish to perform.

Calorie Deficit Calculator for Weight Loss
Photo What would be a realistic weight loss goal for you? Find out and discover how long it would take for you to reach it.
Calorie Calculator for Weight Management
Photo This calorie calculator accurately determines the daily calories and macros needed to reach your weight loss or weight gain goal within a realistic time frame and maintain it.
Body Fat Calculator
Photo This body fat calculator estimates your body's percentage of body fat and discovers how much you would need to weigh for a healthy amount of body fat.
TDEE Calculator for All Ages
Photo This TDEE calculator finds the number of calories your body burns daily and your energy requirements. Accurate for all ages, including infants and toddlers.
Macro Calculator
Photo Calculates your macronutrient requirements based on your calorie intake and diet type. Track your macros instead of counting calories.
Calculate Your ABSI (A Body Shape Index)
Photo Calculates your ABSI; a body shape index of your body and estimates your mortality risk. A pear shaped body is healthier than an apple shaped body. Find out why.
Body Fat Calorie Burn Calculator
Photo Want to burn fat calories? Use this calculator to plan your physical activities to reach your goal.
BMI Calculator for Children and Adults
Photo Calculates Body Mass Index designed for both children and adults.
Waist-To-Hip Ratio Calculator
Photo Calculates your Waist-to-Hip ratio and compares your risk against a chart formulated by the WHO.
Measurement Conversions
Photo Quick conversion of US and Metric measurements ideal for household use.

When you want to lose weight, what is the weight you want to lose made of? The obvious answer is 'fat'. Fat can refer to either the biochemical substance that we call fat or to the tissues that stores this substance. The storage tissue is called 'adipose tissue'.

Adipose tissue consists of specialised cells called adipocytes that contain a large globule of the biochemical substance. Biologists refer to the globule as the 'lipid droplet' made of triglyceride. Triglyceride is the substance you are actually talking about when you say you want to lose some weight.

Losing fat depends on the total balance between the amount of fat you burn and what you store over time. Storing fat is something your body does all the time; even while you're in an energy deficit, your body will switch between storing and burning fat. So to lose fat, you have to keep fat oxidation or fat burning at a higher rate than fat storage.