Leftover calories from weekly deficit?

st476

So say someone's calorie goal is 2000 calories a day but they don't hit that goal at the end of the day all week and end up having 1000 calories left over at the end of the week (not on purpose, just happened). Could they eat 3000 calories on Sunday without messing up the deficit or does it not work that way?

(This doesn't include exercise calories, strictly calories from food)

By the way, these are just example numbers to make it easier.

suzyjane1972

Go ahead....no problem at all as it's within your weekly limit.

WBB55

My recommendation is this:

Long term, yes, you can eat that 3000 without fear of gaining fat. But for me, if my TDEE is 2500 on average, if I ate 3000 (even though I'd saved the calories all week) I would see a plateau for a while or even a gain on the scale (though the overall trend would continue to go down).

If instead I never eat above my average TDEE, the downward trend is more stable and predictable.

Seffell

WBB55 wrote: »

My recommendation is this:

Long term, yes, you can eat that 3000 without fear of gaining fat. But for me, if my TDEE is 2500 on average, if I ate 3000 (even though I'd saved the calories all week) I would see a plateau for a while or even a gain on the scale (though the overall trend would continue to go down).

If instead I never eat above my average TDEE, the downward trend is more stable and predictable.

This is exactly how it happens for me too. In general I don't eat my weekly deficit if there is any.