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Banking calories ?

Numer1ca
Numer1ca Posts: 284 Member
edited November 2024 in Getting Started
I eat more on the weekend and eat less and work out more during the week.

How to we accommodate these fluctuations?

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  • ElizabethOakes2
    ElizabethOakes2 Posts: 1,038 Member
    Everyone has different body chemistry so this works better for some than others. For me I just check my total weekly averages to make sure that what I nom for special food on the weekend doesn't totally wipe out the calories I 'saved' during the week. Just had an early Valentines Day dinner out with my husband and ate back every exercise calorie for today (I usually eat back half my exercise cals to compensate for possible overestimates) but I knew I was a few hundred under the last couple days because I knew it was coming.

    Now if you're eating 100 calories under a day for five days and then eat 3000 over for two days, that might be a problem,
  • Numer1ca
    Numer1ca Posts: 284 Member
    I just like to have a rolling 500.
  • feisty_bucket
    feisty_bucket Posts: 1,047 Member
    You manually carry over your balance from one day to the next. You can make your own category for it if you want.
  • Numer1ca
    Numer1ca Posts: 284 Member
    Like a negative food or an exercise recorded?
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