Is it cheating to move excess calories to the next day or two?

TimothyFish

Whatever works for you.

sijomial

Zedeff wrote: »

sijomial wrote: »

No!
It's remarkably difficult to "burn muscle".
One day eating low doesn't even deplete your glycogen stores plus most people have a huge energy store in their fat.
I lost my weight with two very low calorie days a week and had no problems with loss of lean mass.
Sorry but this is complete bro science.

Provide a citation "bro."

I didn't even have to dig hard, I just searched on PubMed for "lean body mass" and added terms to that like "caloric deficit" and "weight loss."

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23890352
"Over time, all participants lost weight, lean body mass, and fat mass."

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24602091
Over a 4 day period, participants in a walking and calorie restriction diet lost between 0.4 and 2.8 kilograms of lean body mass.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3592619
In male subjects on a prolonged diet, "reduction in resting energy expenditure was related to a continuing loss of lean tissue."

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19927027
Athletes observed for 2 weeks at a calorie deficit lost between 0.3 and 1.6 kilograms of lean body mass.

You call it broscience... looks more like plain old science to me.

Look at the timelines!
You clearly don't understand that muscle is a fuel of last resort. SMH.

Study one - 12 weeks.

Study two - 4 days with 5000 cal energy deficit!

Study three - 200 days

Study four - Week at 60% of normal calorie intake.

If you think they support your assertion that shuttling calories from one day to another causes loss of muscle you are sadly mistaken.

Zedeff

[Citation needed]

Alatariel75

I go to a weekly target, not a daily. During the week I stay around 1100-1200 then on weekends I hit around 2200. Has worked for 20kg so far and keeps me sane!