NEAT (Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis)

NEAT (non-exercise activity thermogenesis) is the energy burned through movement that isn't formal exercise — walking, standing, chores, fidgeting. It's TDEE's most variable, and most overlooked, component.

NEAT (non-exercise activity thermogenesis) is the energy burned through movement that isn’t formal exercise — walking, standing, chores, fidgeting. It’s the most variable of TDEE’s four components, and usually the most overlooked; Levine’s 2002 review of NEAT found that between-person variation can reach up to 2,000 kcal a day.

Cookrange does not measure NEAT. It reads no step count, distance or active-minute data from your phone - there is no Apple Health or Google Fit connection - so the part of your expenditure that NEAT describes is exactly the part it cannot see. What it does show is the exercise you log yourself: pick the activity and the minutes, and the estimated calories burned appear as a passive number on top of that day’s fixed target. That doesn’t change the target itself — the target is only recalculated with your real data up to that point when you ask Cookrange AI to regenerate your plan.