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Changing My Calories Every week?

KNK1988
KNK1988 Posts: 27 Member
edited January 25 in Health and Weight Loss
Would it work to change my calories from say 1720 calories 1 week (this should get me to lose 1lb) and then the next week switch to 1420 calories (this should get me to lose 1.5lbs) and keep going back and forth. Would that confuse my body in a good way or a bad way? Or would it not do anything and I would just potentially lose what it says for that week?

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  • lenamae23
    lenamae23 Posts: 60 Member
    I do this! It's called calorie cycling but I do it by days and never drop below 1500 per day. It works for me.
  • sammycat1
    sammycat1 Posts: 56 Member
    Yes I've done this but only by alternate days not week, should work though.
  • LeanneGoingThin
    LeanneGoingThin Posts: 215 Member
    I don't know if it speeds things up so to say, but I expect it certainly isn't a bad way of doing it.
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