Question: Different days different cal goals

msalicia116
msalicia116 Posts: 233 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
For those who do 5/2 or have different calorie goals for different days, what do you put in for your weekly goal? Today my goal is 500, tomorrow it will be 1500. If I put in 1500 it will assume that's everyday, and make my weekly "goal" 10,500 instead of 8,500.

So, do you manually change the goal each day?

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  • pebble4321
    pebble4321 Posts: 1,132 Member
    I think you need a premium account to change your goals daily.
    Could you add up your cals for the full week and divide that my seven to set your daily goal? Each day would be wrong but the week is right... I guess you have to choose one or the other.
  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    msalicia116 wrote: »
    For those who do 5/2 or have different calorie goals for different days, what do you put in for your weekly goal? Today my goal is 500, tomorrow it will be 1500. If I put in 1500 it will assume that's everyday, and make my weekly "goal" 10,500 instead of 8,500.

    So, do you manually change the goal each day?


    When I did ADF, I left my calories to what my up days were, i didn't bother changing them everyday.
    And on down days i just ate up to 500 calories. I'm not aware of any tweak to get around it.
  • msalicia116
    msalicia116 Posts: 233 Member
    pebble4321 wrote: »
    I think you need a premium account to change your goals daily.
    Could you add up your cals for the full week and divide that my seven to set your daily goal? Each day would be wrong but the week is right... I guess you have to choose one or the other.

    That's what I'm thinking too. Thanks!
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,416 Member
    edited June 2016
    Well, you don't have to get to any particular number on any given day.

    A lot of people think they have to "Close out" the day or "Complete This Entry" or whatever it says on the Food Diary page. You don't have to press that button, I never complete my day. The only thing that button does is tell you, "Hey in 5 weeks..." and then it posts something to your feed if you have that enabled. Totally meaningless stuff...

    So just eat the 500. Call it good.

    Annoyingly, if you change one day, it changes every day backwards, too. I don't like that when I'm trying to study my history. I've got my end of day calories on a spreadsheet, too. More info that way and much more useful to me.
  • msalicia116
    msalicia116 Posts: 233 Member
    Christine_72 wrote: »
    msalicia116 wrote: »
    For those who do 5/2 or have different calorie goals for different days, what do you put in for your weekly goal? Today my goal is 500, tomorrow it will be 1500. If I put in 1500 it will assume that's everyday, and make my weekly "goal" 10,500 instead of 8,500.

    So, do you manually change the goal each day?


    When I did ADF, I left my calories to what my up days were, i didn't bother changing them everyday.
    And on down days i just ate up to 500 calories. I'm not aware of any tweak to get around it.

    Yeah, I'm trying to decide if I want it to be what my up days are, or the amount my weekly target will be. But I have an aversive with it saying 1200 when my goal really is 1500 and it saying I'm over when I'm not. Call it a mental thing.
  • arditarose
    arditarose Posts: 15,573 Member
    It used to bother me not to see the correct amount of calories I wanted to eat as the goal that day, but really it's not optimal to go changing it every day. Pick your daily average calorie goal, set it there...some days you'll be above, somedays you'll be below.
  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    msalicia116 wrote: »
    Christine_72 wrote: »
    msalicia116 wrote: »
    For those who do 5/2 or have different calorie goals for different days, what do you put in for your weekly goal? Today my goal is 500, tomorrow it will be 1500. If I put in 1500 it will assume that's everyday, and make my weekly "goal" 10,500 instead of 8,500.

    So, do you manually change the goal each day?


    When I did ADF, I left my calories to what my up days were, i didn't bother changing them everyday.
    And on down days i just ate up to 500 calories. I'm not aware of any tweak to get around it.

    Yeah, I'm trying to decide if I want it to be what my up days are, or the amount my weekly target will be. But I have an aversive with it saying 1200 when my goal really is 1500 and it saying I'm over when I'm not. Call it a mental thing.

    Yeah, i understand that. I hate those stupid red numbers. That may be your only option though, other than going premium. I hate maths and stuffing around with numbers!!
  • arditarose
    arditarose Posts: 15,573 Member
    It's just a tool and it's not perfect. You're in control of your intake, not the machine.
  • msalicia116
    msalicia116 Posts: 233 Member
    arditarose wrote: »
    It used to bother me not to see the correct amount of calories I wanted to eat as the goal that day, but really it's not optimal to go changing it every day. Pick your daily average calorie goal, set it there...some days you'll be above, somedays you'll be below.

    Right, seems like a nuisance to mess with it everyday. Just a minor detail I need to overlook.
  • arditarose
    arditarose Posts: 15,573 Member
    msalicia116 wrote: »
    arditarose wrote: »
    It used to bother me not to see the correct amount of calories I wanted to eat as the goal that day, but really it's not optimal to go changing it every day. Pick your daily average calorie goal, set it there...some days you'll be above, somedays you'll be below.

    Right, seems like a nuisance to mess with it everyday. Just a minor detail I need to overlook.

    Yeah then you have to redo your macros every day which is the most annoying part.
  • toe1226
    toe1226 Posts: 249 Member
    i set mine to -.5 lb for week and this gives me enough cals that with exercise cals its rare to go in the red...but i keep it up this high even as my "ceiling" so to speak, and sometimes i go lower *lately I don't!*

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