Canceling out calories
rockailly13
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so here's another dumb calorie question but please humor me...
So say you eat way under your calorie limit one day and you are 500+ calories under but then the next day you eat 500 over your limit, do they cancel in another out and in return become even over the course of the two days? Or is a calorie a calorie and once it's been eaten you are pretty much screwed for that day regardless?
So say you eat way under your calorie limit one day and you are 500+ calories under but then the next day you eat 500 over your limit, do they cancel in another out and in return become even over the course of the two days? Or is a calorie a calorie and once it's been eaten you are pretty much screwed for that day regardless?
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I don't go by daily calories, but weekly. Weekdays I might eat around 1200, weekend days 2000. I've lost over 50lbs doing that! Your body doesn't reset every 24 hours, so you can definitely 'save' and 'make up' calories. 5:2 fasting is completely based on this, with 2 days a week fasting and the other 5 at maintenance.0
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What is the easiest way to keep track of your calories on a weekly basis?0
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I pay attention to weekly cals.
I generally eat under cals by 200 a day mon-fri, so I have an extra 1000 cals for saturday/sunday.
You don't 'cancel calories out'. You create more deficit on days you eat under, then you create a surplus on day you are over. However if you stay in your weekly cals it will even out to roughly the same loss you would get if you ate your daily cals everyday. (Though you may see more water weight gains on the high eating days due to higher carbs or sodium)0 -
MysticRealm wrote: »I pay attention to weekly cals.
I generally eat under cals by 200 a day mon-fri, so I have an extra 1000 cals for saturday/sunday.
You don't 'cancel calories out'. You create more deficit on days you eat under, then you create a surplus on day you are over. However if you stay in your weekly cals it will even out to roughly the same loss you would get if you ate your daily cals everyday. (Though you may see more water weight gains on the high eating days due to higher carbs or sodium)
Very true. That's why I officially 'weigh in' on a Friday, Mondays I tend to be well up in water weight but it goes by Wednesday.0 -
Everything everyone else has said is right on....that being said I ate an arugula salad tonight while everyone else got to enjoy pasta because I just HAD to have my "splurge meal" on Wednesday!
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Alatariel75 wrote: »MysticRealm wrote: »I pay attention to weekly cals.
I generally eat under cals by 200 a day mon-fri, so I have an extra 1000 cals for saturday/sunday.
You don't 'cancel calories out'. You create more deficit on days you eat under, then you create a surplus on day you are over. However if you stay in your weekly cals it will even out to roughly the same loss you would get if you ate your daily cals everyday. (Though you may see more water weight gains on the high eating days due to higher carbs or sodium)
Very true. That's why I officially 'weigh in' on a Friday, Mondays I tend to be well up in water weight but it goes by Wednesday.
Ditto to all of this/both of these posts. 100-200 calories under during the week, a good 2500-3000 on Saturday...Monday I'm up 3-4 pounds and Friday back down.
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MysticRealm wrote: »I pay attention to weekly cals.
I generally eat under cals by 200 a day mon-fri, so I have an extra 1000 cals for saturday/sunday.
You don't 'cancel calories out'. You create more deficit on days you eat under, then you create a surplus on day you are over. However if you stay in your weekly cals it will even out to roughly the same loss you would get if you ate your daily cals everyday. (Though you may see more water weight gains on the high eating days due to higher carbs or sodium)
This!
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DuckReconMajor wrote: »What is the easiest way to keep track of your calories on a weekly basis?
Do you use the MFP phone app? If you click on the 'nutrition' tab then click 'weekly' it shows you a graph of calories over the last 7 days and tells you how many weekly cals you have left
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rockailly13 wrote: »so here's another dumb calorie question but please humor me...
So say you eat way under your calorie limit one day and you are 500+ calories under but then the next day you eat 500 over your limit, do they cancel in another out and in return become even over the course of the two days? Or is a calorie a calorie and once it's been eaten you are pretty much screwed for that day regardless?
It's the weekly average that matters. In other words, it's okay to stagger your calories as long as by the end of the week you meet your calorie goals.0 -
lemonlionheart wrote: »DuckReconMajor wrote: »What is the easiest way to keep track of your calories on a weekly basis?
Do you use the MFP phone app? If you click on the 'nutrition' tab then click 'weekly' it shows you a graph of calories over the last 7 days and tells you how many weekly cals you have left
It USED to. Not anymore
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Android app still does0
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MysticRealm wrote: »
I'll enjoy it while I can. By next week, who knows.0 -
Even if you change it to weekly net calories?0
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The new android app does, tells you have many calories under and average day0
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Never upgrade!0
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So that would be "Net Calories Under Weekly Goal" I should be looking at?lemonlionheart wrote: »DuckReconMajor wrote: »What is the easiest way to keep track of your calories on a weekly basis?
Do you use the MFP phone app? If you click on the 'nutrition' tab then click 'weekly' it shows you a graph of calories over the last 7 days and tells you how many weekly cals you have left
Also, If I keep switching between "Total" and "Net" the graph and numbers for "Net" keep changing every time I come back to it. Wth? I did change my goal in the middle of the week but honestly this graph is wacking out, it'll slap a negative on Monday's value or suddenly say i went way over Tuesday then say I didn't. ugh.
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Weekly is what matters.0
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lemonlionheart wrote: »
Do you use the MFP phone app? If you click on the 'nutrition' tab then click 'weekly' it shows you a graph of calories over the last 7 days and tells you how many weekly cals you have left
Thanks for this, I didn't know I could see this info because it wasn't there in portrait mode. Once I turned my phone sideways, there it was!
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MysticRealm wrote: »I pay attention to weekly cals.
I generally eat under cals by 200 a day mon-fri, so I have an extra 1000 cals for saturday/sunday.
You don't 'cancel calories out'. You create more deficit on days you eat under, then you create a surplus on day you are over. However if you stay in your weekly cals it will even out to roughly the same loss you would get if you ate your daily cals everyday. (Though you may see more water weight gains on the high eating days due to higher carbs or sodium)
This!0
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