Weekly cal goal or daily
Wingg_
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Do you watch your overall weekly goal or just daily? Because I started watch my weekly goal so sometimes I've got like 900cal to spare on the last day of the week. I'm wondering that'll actually make me gain weight. I started the weekly goal thing and I've been gaining weight so I'm wondering if that's the cause.
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Being 900 under calorie goal per week certainly won't make you gain weight! How long have you been gaining? Have you changed anything else aside from swapping daily total for a weekly one?
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Do you watch your overall weekly goal or just daily? Because I started watch my weekly goal so sometimes I've got like 900cal to spare on the last day of the week. I'm wondering that'll actually make me gain weight. I started the weekly goal thing and I've been gaining weight so I'm wondering if that's the cause.
You won't GAIN weight from eating in a deficit... How long have you been maintaining?0 -
Weekly here.
You can't gain weight at a deficit so you're probably either overestimating your activity, or underestimating your food intake.0 -
kickassbarbie wrote: »Being 900 under calorie goal per week certainly won't make you gain weight! How long have you been gaining? Have you changed anything else aside from swapping daily total for a weekly one?
I'll eat back the 900cal on the last day of the week. Other than that I have changed from eating pork tenderloin to pork shoulder ...0 -
I watch my daily goal, because I am attempting even calorie intake/burn.0
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Haha daily when I'm meeting it, weekly when I've blown a day for some reason or the other.0
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I count and track my caloric intake. I'm on a restrictive Medical Weight Loss Plan; which consists of drinking 2 protein shakes, eating one protein bar and then cooking a meal and trying to keep it under 550 calories. I've been very surprised at being able to do this and I have not gone over my caloric intake, except on weekends when my husband cooks a larger breakfast than he does during the week. For my meal I will track what I 'think' I will eat for that meal and then adjust it up or down depending on what I actually eat. I spent half the afternoon putting up single servings of various meats in the freezer so I can eat my biggest meal in the middle of the day; and stay on track to keep my overall caloric intake to 960 calories set by my MD to lose weight. I get weighed-in again tomorrow; but 2 weeks ago I had lost 7lbs in 2 weeks. I'm hoping for good results this time, too.0
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I track daily knowing I'll go over one or two days. I'm always under for the week - in the summer usually by well over 1000 calories, in the winter by a few hundred. I do not roll over weeks. For me, that road would lead to weight gain.0
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Weekly-I eat a little under my maintenance calories during the week and then a bit over on the weekends. It all evens out0
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Lately I've been going by weekly goal, it's working nicely for me0
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as of now i go by daily, but for long term maintaining I'll probably switch to week.0
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I do both. I export everything into excel and use a 5-day average but I watch the dailies as well The 5 day average allows me to balance when I need to travel for work and or when I have something special (i.e. a wedding) to attend.
Been doing that for the last 500+ days and am now comparing year on year on calorie goals. I have been tracking my exercise (number of minutes) for longer I been that in a graph covering 3.5 years.
I find those graphs hugely inspiring :-)0 -
Sarasmaintaining wrote: »Weekly-I eat a little under my maintenance calories during the week and then a bit over on the weekends. It all evens out
How long have you been tracking weekly goal??0 -
dutchandkiwi wrote: »I do both. I export everything into excel and use a 5-day average but I watch the dailies as well The 5 day average allows me to balance when I need to travel for work and or when I have something special (i.e. a wedding) to attend.
Been doing that for the last 500+ days and am now comparing year on year on calorie goals. I have been tracking my exercise (number of minutes) for longer I been that in a graph covering 3.5 years.
I find those graphs hugely inspiring :-)
How do you export into Excel? I'd like to do something similar
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The App shows you your weekly average and how close or far away you are from your weekly goal...it's a huge help.0
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I track mine monthly. Works for me.0
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weekly...the app makes it easy0
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dutchandkiwi wrote: »I do both. I export everything into excel and use a 5-day average but I watch the dailies as well The 5 day average allows me to balance when I need to travel for work and or when I have something special (i.e. a wedding) to attend.
Been doing that for the last 500+ days and am now comparing year on year on calorie goals. I have been tracking my exercise (number of minutes) for longer I been that in a graph covering 3.5 years.
I find those graphs hugely inspiring :-)
How do you export into Excel? I'd like to do something similar
@SSC1958 I use https://www.designbyvh.com/myfitnesspal-export-data/
it is exported to csv file which can be opened in excel, with copy and paste it then goes into my master file
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Go to Nutrition. And then at the bottom, you'll see Daily and Weekly tabs - click the Weekly and it gives you a nice layout!
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