Borrowing calories from next day?

nowine4me

Bruja924 wrote: »

Wynterbourne wrote: »

I've been averaging my calories by the week instead of the day for a year now. I've lost 95lbs. Your body doesn't know it's the next day. It all averages out.

I wish MFP calculated your cals by the week! Or at least rolled over your unused cals☺️

I'm sure most know this, but after 4 years using MFP I just discovered that there is a weekly view when you click the nutrition tab. It shows you your average deficit/surplus for the week starting Sunday. Makes borrowing and lending a heck of a lot easier. Cheers!

nowine4me

^^ actually, you can pick which day of the week you want to start with, if for example, you prefer Mon-Sun.

shadowfax_c11

depending on your weigh loss goal a couple of hundred calories is not really a big deal. My deficit is around 1000 calories and I am under goal most days. Granted I have a rather generous calorie goal due a high activity level, so this isn't so hard for me. But any rate being over a couple of hundred still leaves me in a deficit for the day so no biggie.

LivingtheLeanDream

Its called banking calories and I do it all the time
Even at maintenance I eat at slight deficit during the week to allow for splurging at the weekends - it works perfectly

Sued0nim

nowine4me wrote: »

^^ actually, you can pick which day of the week you want to start with, if for example, you prefer Mon-Sun.

On the app, which I don't have any more, you used to be able to do a rolling 7 days so it wasn't a week by week but ongoing

I don't know if they broke that but it was useful

srecupid

Sure I'm doing the opposite now. I'm trying to eat at a minor deficit all month because I'm going on vacation at end of month and having a Thanksgiving like day maybe worse one day.

songbird13291

Perfectly fine, as long as you create a weekly deficit.

In fact, that's exactly how Weigh Watchers structures their program. You get a daily points allowance, and you also get a weekly points allowance. You don't have to use the weekly allowance at all. But if you choose to use it, youcan use the weekly allowance all at once -- say, at a party -- or you can use a few points each day.

jdhcm2006

I do it whenever something special is coming up and I don't want to worry about calories for that day. I'll exercise a little more and shave off a few calories from each day, so when the special day comes along that week, I've got about 1200-1800 calories to play with.

Next Saturday, the fam and I are going to the state fair and I want to eat all of the foods. I'm going to make sure I work out each day that week and save 100-200 calories each day, that way when Saturday rolls around, I can have the donuts and corn dogs and french fries without guilt or worry.

PaulaWallaDingDong

I do it all the time. Just try not to get yourself too far into a hole where you have 100 calories for an entire day. It can snowball like that if you let it.