How many cal's do you leave at the end of the day?

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  • galgenstrick
    galgenstrick Posts: 2,086 Member
    Jruzer wrote: »
    I try to bring it to zero, unless I 'm baking cookies.

    Fixed
  • ilex70
    ilex70 Posts: 727 Member
    edited February 2016
    When I read the title I took this as "how many calories do you save for evening snacks?" :)

    If you get at least 1200 I wouldn't stress. But I wouldn't stress about eating the 1380 either.

    When I plugged in my info to start @ 2 pounds a week MFP gave me 1200. I've very rarely come in under 1200.

    I recently fiddled with my goals to increase my protein. I try to get that in, or as close as I can at least. Calories are set to 1400 now, but I usually don't eat back anything for exercise and don't even pretend to know what my exercise burn is. I do have a vivofit linked, but so far as I know it is just tracking all movement as walking/steps though some of my exercise is more vigorous than that.

    ETA: so, random curiosity...wiki says I'm working in my VO2 max range on the elliptical. Who knows if the HRM on the machine is right though.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_rate#/media/File:Exercise_zones_Fox_and_Haskell.svg
  • Panda_Poptarts
    Panda_Poptarts Posts: 971 Member
    Like 2. Lol
  • rileysowner
    rileysowner Posts: 8,321 Member
    Generally all of them. It is a goal to reach.
  • JustMissTracy
    JustMissTracy Posts: 6,338 Member
    williams969 wrote: »
    I go by weekly calories, so I typically bank 100 per day, and use them for a calorie heavy day. So, essentially, I leave close to no calories left uneaten by week's end.

    This, here too...and it works perfectly!
  • distinctlybeautiful
    distinctlybeautiful Posts: 1,041 Member
    I generally don't leave any. I don't really have a calorie goal right now though, just a maximum and a minimum. My maximum is maintenance, and my minimum is four hundred under maintenance. I almost always eat my maximum. I give myself a leeway of fifty calories, so whether I'm fifty over or under, I still consider my goal met.

    If you set your activity level at sedentary but you believe you're actually slightly more active then that, then there's no reason to leave any calories in your bank. MFP is already giving you a calorie goal based on less activity than your doing, so that goal is already a bit low (granted, maybe by a neglible amount, but still..).

    Basically the bottom line is that the goal includes your deficit. You should eat that much - unless you have some legitimate reason, like the people who go weekly or whatever it may be. If you're just trying to lose weight faster, why not set your goal lower? You can manually adjust your calorie goal. (That said, I'm a huge propenent of slow weight loss and pretty well against 1200 calorie diets without medical reasons.)
  • cbihatt
    cbihatt Posts: 319 Member
    I try to be as close as possible. Some days that means leaving calories, and sometimes it means going over. I figure it evens out over time.
  • RobD520
    RobD520 Posts: 420 Member
    I usually end up with 300 to 400 left, I do a fair bit of exercise, and don't eat all those calories back,
  • juggernaut1974
    juggernaut1974 Posts: 6,212 Member
    Zero.

    The winner is the person who can eat the MOST yummy food, and still meet his/her weight and fitness goals.
  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    edited February 2016
    RobD520 wrote: »
    I usually end up with 300 to 400 left, I do a fair bit of exercise, and don't eat all those calories back,

    Same here, plus I don't 100% trust fitbits calorie burn. I can sometimes earn an extra 1,000 calories just by walking. Plus there are times I don't log a taste of this and that, so I prefer that buffer. And I am by no means losing weight at an alarmingly fast pace!
  • ridge4mfp
    ridge4mfp Posts: 301 Member
    I try to leave 250, but that is just a mind game I play. I am still heavy enough to have a goal of 2 lbs a week, but my calorie goal at that setting looks scary low to me (omg, I will starve!). So I set my goal at 1.5 lbs, and try to leave 250. I have found I actually do this most of the time pretty easily. But on that rare "hungry day", I eat them all, and still avoid looking at a red number. ☺️
  • ElizabethOakes2
    ElizabethOakes2 Posts: 1,038 Member
    I eat everything but about half of my exercise calories. Seems to be working so far.
  • trjjoy
    trjjoy Posts: 666 Member
    I always try to bank some calories. Some days I am under by 400 calories. Some days I am under by 4 calories. It just depends on how hungry or hangry I am.
  • Merkavar
    Merkavar Posts: 3,082 Member
    I try to get with in 50-100 calories of the goal.

    Not to fussed though, all seems to even out.
  • tyronnreid69
    tyronnreid69 Posts: 3 Member
    I would recommend getting withing 5% of your daily macros wether less than or over.. remember your body burns calories even at rest so it won't hurt...to our body also burns calories during digestion so that would be great to have what is required

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