? can you really save calories and use them later
Blondie9292
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I like red wine. I don't drink every week but when I have it I do like 3 or 4 glasses. I know it's really bad for the belly. Can I really bad k those calories I don't use during the week and use them 2 or three times a month towards this without a huge negative impact?
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Yes.
I bank calories all week so I can eat 2500-3000 calories on Saturday. I did it in a deficit, and do it on maintenance. I just have to watch my macros and make sure I'm properly fueled for workouts.0 -
*looks skeptically at 3 or 4 glasses*
I don't know how many ounces are in one of your glasses, but I wouldn't "save" up calories for more than a week, myself. That being said, binging twice a month on booze won't derail your weight loss, but I wouldn't plan on your loss being linear and predictable if you make something like this a habit.
You could try having 3 or 4 glasses of something with a little less alcohol. Like a white wine spritzer. That way you can keep up with your friends but will overall be consuming less calories and alcohol.0 -
I work with a Wino, um, I mean a woman who loves her wine. Any suggestion of a Spritzer would get you a punch in the eye.. with that said: Yes, you can bank calories.. be reasonable.
When I was in weight loss mode I would save up for Pizza once a week and my losses were linear over 5 months. (-68 lbs) 0 -
I do this to a certain extent. I'm going out for brunch tomorrow and know it'll be hard for me to stay within my calories so I've made sure I've had a few days this week where I've been 200 calories under my usual deficit just to give myself some wiggle room. I love red wine too and it does have some health benefits. Make sure you're counting your glasses properly. I know the way I pour my glass is more than a standard drink. So keep on top of it!0
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I eat 200-250 under my daily goal so i have extra Cala to use on the weekend.0
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I wish I could use my husband's banked calories.
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Calories are units of energy you get from food.
They don't bank aside of your body banks them as fat.
So yes, you can bank lots of calories! That is why most of us are here.
Why not just record accurately what you intake and let it all work out.
Those that claim to bank calories say it all works out that way too. So why falsify your intake.
I don't see why do it. Just record what you actually do. If you don't, then you won't be able to see if it actually really does work out.0 -
Yeah I definitely bank my calories so I can drink 5+ drinks twice a week. I'm still losing.0
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professionalHobbyist wrote: »Calories are units of energy you get from food.
They don't bank aside of your body banks them as fat.
So yes, you can bank lots of calories! That is why most of us are here.
Why not just record accurately what you intake and let it all work out.
Those that claim to bank calories say it all works out that way too. So why falsify your intake.
I don't see why do it. Just record what you actually do. If you don't, then you won't be able to see if it actually really does work out.
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professionalHobbyist wrote: »Calories are units of energy you get from food.
They don't bank aside of your body banks them as fat.
So yes, you can bank lots of calories! That is why most of us are here.
Why not just record accurately what you intake and let it all work out.
Those that claim to bank calories say it all works out that way too. So why falsify your intake.
I don't see why do it. Just record what you actually do. If you don't, then you won't be able to see if it actually really does work out.
Nothing is falsified. They just eat say 100 cals less each day and have those extra 500 cals on the weekend.
ETA: basically looking at a weekly intake instead of a daily one.0 -
professionalHobbyist wrote: »Calories are units of energy you get from food.
They don't bank aside of your body banks them as fat.
So yes, you can bank lots of calories! That is why most of us are here.
Why not just record accurately what you intake and let it all work out.
Those that claim to bank calories say it all works out that way too. So why falsify your intake.
I don't see why do it. Just record what you actually do. If you don't, then you won't be able to see if it actually really does work out.
I don't think anyone is suggesting people record inaccurately. Just that they eat (and record) a bit less for several days so they can have a bigger calorie count on certain days without going over their weekly goal. They're just splitting up their weekly calories in unequal parts. For example my daily goal is 1500 calories. That's 10500 per 7 day period. Rather than eating 1500 every day, I may eat 1400 for 6 days and eat 2100 on 1 day. The weekly total is still 10500. I'm still in a deficit and I haven't falsified anything.0 -
professionalHobbyist wrote: »Calories are units of energy you get from food.
They don't bank aside of your body banks them as fat.
So yes, you can bank lots of calories! That is why most of us are here.
Why not just record accurately what you intake and let it all work out.
Those that claim to bank calories say it all works out that way too. So why falsify your intake.
I don't see why do it. Just record what you actually do. If you don't, then you won't be able to see if it actually really does work out.
I don't think anyone is suggesting people record inaccurately. Just that they eat (and record) a bit less for several days so they can have a bigger calorie count on certain days without going over their weekly goal. They're just splitting up their weekly calories in unequal parts. For example my daily goal is 1500 calories. That's 10500 per 7 day period. Rather than eating 1500 every day, I may eat 1400 for 6 days and eat 2100 on 1 day. The weekly total is still 10500. I'm still in a deficit and I haven't falsified anything.
What she said.0 -
professionalHobbyist wrote: »Calories are units of energy you get from food.
They don't bank aside of your body banks them as fat.
So yes, you can bank lots of calories! That is why most of us are here.
Why not just record accurately what you intake and let it all work out.
Those that claim to bank calories say it all works out that way too. So why falsify your intake.
I don't see why do it. Just record what you actually do. If you don't, then you won't be able to see if it actually really does work out.
I don't think OP is talking about putting today's wine on Monday's tab.
But if you're questioning whether it's possible to consume 500 calories over your maintenance today, then go back to eating 500 under maintenance every other day and still lose weight, it totally is.0 -
Well why not just do your daily log to reflect your daily intake?
In the end just do what you want, but at that point it isn't a true daily log.
The question was, can you bank calories
Ironically you do bank calories in the form of added fat.
You can't bank negative energy. You burn off that fat. There is no shell game with calories. It is the dreaded CICO.
But everyone is an adult and does as they see fit. I personally think it is a bad practice for me. If I over eat on a day it goes in the log! An 1800 calorie order of spare ribs is in mine! Ha.... And they were dang good and worth it.
For me it was always wrong thinking about food. So I keep it simple.
So no, I don't play games with recording calories. Maybe I was a worse case than most. It has been a year and a half and I have lost over 125 lbs. so it was kind of lose weight or die.
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professionalHobbyist wrote: »Well why not just do your daily log to reflect your daily intake?
In the end just do what you want, but at that point it isn't a true daily log.
The question was, can you bank calories
Ironically you do bank calories in the form of added fat.
You can't bank negative energy. You burn off that fat. There is no shell game with calories. It is the dreaded CICO.
But everyone is an adult and does as they see fit. I personally think it is a bad practice for me. If I over eat on a day it goes in the log! An 1800 calorie order of spare ribs is in mine! Ha.... And they were dang good and worth it.
For me it was always wrong thinking about food. So I keep it simple.
So no, I don't play games with recording calories. Maybe I was a worse case than most. It has been a year and a half and I have lost over 125 lbs. so it was kind of lose weight or die.
No one is playing games. I think you are very confused. We keep a weekly deficit...which is still the "dreaded cico" you speak of. Everything is logged.0 -
arditarose wrote: »professionalHobbyist wrote: »Well why not just do your daily log to reflect your daily intake?
In the end just do what you want, but at that point it isn't a true daily log.
The question was, can you bank calories
Ironically you do bank calories in the form of added fat.
You can't bank negative energy. You burn off that fat. There is no shell game with calories. It is the dreaded CICO.
But everyone is an adult and does as they see fit. I personally think it is a bad practice for me. If I over eat on a day it goes in the log! An 1800 calorie order of spare ribs is in mine! Ha.... And they were dang good and worth it.
For me it was always wrong thinking about food. So I keep it simple.
So no, I don't play games with recording calories. Maybe I was a worse case than most. It has been a year and a half and I have lost over 125 lbs. so it was kind of lose weight or die.
No one is playing games. I think you are very confused. We keep a weekly deficit...which is still the "dreaded cico" you speak of. Everything is logged.
Yeah. I looked at it as this: as long as I had a deficit of 3500 for the week, splurging was fine.0 -
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UltimateRBF wrote: »arditarose wrote: »professionalHobbyist wrote: »Well why not just do your daily log to reflect your daily intake?
In the end just do what you want, but at that point it isn't a true daily log.
The question was, can you bank calories
Ironically you do bank calories in the form of added fat.
You can't bank negative energy. You burn off that fat. There is no shell game with calories. It is the dreaded CICO.
But everyone is an adult and does as they see fit. I personally think it is a bad practice for me. If I over eat on a day it goes in the log! An 1800 calorie order of spare ribs is in mine! Ha.... And they were dang good and worth it.
For me it was always wrong thinking about food. So I keep it simple.
So no, I don't play games with recording calories. Maybe I was a worse case than most. It has been a year and a half and I have lost over 125 lbs. so it was kind of lose weight or die.
No one is playing games. I think you are very confused. We keep a weekly deficit...which is still the "dreaded cico" you speak of. Everything is logged.
Yeah on the app at least it shows you your weekly deficit. A lot of people myself included like to keep an eye on that as well as the daily deficit. It's not cheating or playing games....it's working with the data.
Agreed. Data is key.
@professionalHobbyist, this would work the same way doing it backwards-eating over one day, perhaps unplanned, and then fixing it up over the course of a day or two by eating under your deficit goal.0 -
professionalHobbyist wrote: »Well why not just do your daily log to reflect your daily intake?
In the end just do what you want, but at that point it isn't a true daily log.
The question was, can you bank calories
Ironically you do bank calories in the form of added fat.
You can't bank negative energy. You burn off that fat. There is no shell game with calories. It is the dreaded CICO.
But everyone is an adult and does as they see fit. I personally think it is a bad practice for me. If I over eat on a day it goes in the log! An 1800 calorie order of spare ribs is in mine! Ha.... And they were dang good and worth it.
For me it was always wrong thinking about food. So I keep it simple.
So no, I don't play games with recording calories. Maybe I was a worse case than most. It has been a year and a half and I have lost over 125 lbs. so it was kind of lose weight or die.
Are you crazy or is it just the way you post?
This is how I 'bank' calories (and record them)
Monday I ate 1449 calories, so I record all the food in my diary that leads up to me eating that amount.
Tuesday I ate 1452 calories, so I record all the food in my diary that leads up to me eating that amount.
Wednesday I ate 1700 calories, so I record all the food in my diary that leads up to me eating that amount.
Thursday I ate 1446 calories, so I record all the food in my diary that leads up to me eating that amount.
Friday I ate 1449 calories, so I record all the food in my diary that leads up to me eating that amount.
Saturday I ate 2000 calories, so I record all the food in my diary that leads up to me eating that amount.
Sunday I ate 2400 calories, so I record all the food in my diary that leads up to me eating that amount.
My daily cal goal is 1700, my weekly cal goal is 11,900. For the week I posted above I would have eaten 11896. This means I am under my weekly cals by 4 calories.
Yes, you create MORE deficit during the week so you 'lose more' then on the weekend you have a surplus so you 'gain' but it all works out to the same loss as you would eating your daily goal everyday.0 -
Feel free to look at my dairy. Today I'm 434 calories over budget, but for the week I'm still 304 under. I log as accurately as possible. Today includes several guesses because we went out for my brother's birthday to a local pizza joint and my sister made cheesecake. But the point is, if I stayed on target tomorrow, I'd still expect to lose as usual because I'm not going over my weekly goal. Everything I've eaten is logged on the day I ate it and nothing has been left out.0
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Most days I am on a 1200 calorie diet and most days after the calories I burn are taken into account I come in under the mark.0
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michelledadams92 wrote: »Most days I am on a 1200 calorie diet and most days after the calories I burn are taken into account I come in under the mark.
Well that's not exactly what we're talking about either. If your goal is 1200 calories, you should be eating your exercise calories back for sure.0 -
MysticRealm wrote: »I eat 200-250 under my daily goal so i have extra Cala to use on the weekend.
Though I have to say, now that they did that terrible update on my iphone it's been crazy frustrating to figure out how many cals I have left for the weekend!0 -
MysticRealm wrote: »MysticRealm wrote: »I eat 200-250 under my daily goal so i have extra Cala to use on the weekend.
Though I have to say, now that they did that terrible update on my iphone it's been crazy frustrating to figure out how many cals I have left for the weekend!
Yeah...why is this? I feel like it doesn't give me an accurate count or something. And then I have this bar graph the color of poop with a calorie breakdown of my meals across that week that I could care less about.0 -
Idk if the iPhone app is like the android, but on mine you can tap the bars on the graph and the daily amounts show. There is no way to know that though unless you're told or you stumble on it like I did. Otherwise, it's just numberless bars.0
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arditarose wrote: »MysticRealm wrote: »MysticRealm wrote: »I eat 200-250 under my daily goal so i have extra Cala to use on the weekend.
Though I have to say, now that they did that terrible update on my iphone it's been crazy frustrating to figure out how many cals I have left for the weekend!
Yeah...why is this? I feel like it doesn't give me an accurate count or something. And then I have this bar graph the color of poop with a calorie breakdown of my meals across that week that I could care less about.
Switch to "net" and the view changes a bit, I find it easier to look at. I go by my weekly average also and it makes me insane that it doesn't give the running total of calories for the week anymore. I can do the math, but when I'm staring down 1/2 a pizza or a sheet cake - it's do or die and I need some quick data!0 -
arditarose wrote: »MysticRealm wrote: »MysticRealm wrote: »I eat 200-250 under my daily goal so i have extra Cala to use on the weekend.
Though I have to say, now that they did that terrible update on my iphone it's been crazy frustrating to figure out how many cals I have left for the weekend!
Yeah...why is this? I feel like it doesn't give me an accurate count or something. And then I have this bar graph the color of poop with a calorie breakdown of my meals across that week that I could care less about.
Switch to "net" and the view changes a bit, I find it easier to look at. I go by my weekly average also and it makes me insane that it doesn't give the running total of calories for the week anymore. I can do the math, but when I'm staring down 1/2 a pizza or a sheet cake - it's do or die and I need some quick data!
Wait...I think it gives me the running total still...No? Maybe I already have it switched to net. I just don't like how it looks.
I actually don't math so I go in and quick add approximately how many calories I'll eat each day for the week.0 -
arditarose wrote: »arditarose wrote: »MysticRealm wrote: »MysticRealm wrote: »I eat 200-250 under my daily goal so i have extra Cala to use on the weekend.
Though I have to say, now that they did that terrible update on my iphone it's been crazy frustrating to figure out how many cals I have left for the weekend!
Yeah...why is this? I feel like it doesn't give me an accurate count or something. And then I have this bar graph the color of poop with a calorie breakdown of my meals across that week that I could care less about.
Switch to "net" and the view changes a bit, I find it easier to look at. I go by my weekly average also and it makes me insane that it doesn't give the running total of calories for the week anymore. I can do the math, but when I'm staring down 1/2 a pizza or a sheet cake - it's do or die and I need some quick data!
Wait...I think it gives me the running total still...No? Maybe I already have it switched to net. I just don't like how it looks.
I actually don't math so I go in and quick add approximately how many calories I'll eat each day for the week.
Total is poop brown and broken my meal, net is green and red (when under weekly view), at least for me. I have a weekly average, and that's correct. Then I have calories under weekly goal and it literally says "2" right now (I have been banking calories all week and have thousands left). I have no running total.
Ive been on MFP for years and have tried other apps, switching is too hard after all this time. But I really hate 90% of the updates.
Sorry, OP. Got sidetracked! You can totally bank calories or cycle calories throughout the week. I even did this on contest prep for a figure competition and got crazy lean. It all evens out 0 -
arditarose wrote: »
Wait...I think it gives me the running total still...No? Maybe I already have it switched to net. I just don't like how it looks.
I actually don't math so I go in and quick add approximately how many calories I'll eat each day for the week.
You still get a running total?! That's not fair!
My "calories under weekly goal" should say in the 3000's right now, instead it's says 100 and some! I don't even know WHERE they are getting that number from!0
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