seems like a very reductionist view of human metabolism. human body weight is composed of many factors that don't directly depend on metabolism in the sense of "burning calories", as i am sure you are aware.

for those that aren't, you can't actually measure metabolic rates this way.

for a way to actually measure it see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indirect_calorimetry

I've linked the method above; let me know which part you disagree with.