Eating poorly and making up for it during the rest of the week.

Thecpt

I was wondering if the idea of making up for a bad day by shaving off more calories from other days of the week is at all a good practice. or is it better to just wake the next day and proceed as usual.

We all have bad days but I tend to like to be able to make for it in one way or another given that I know I will sometimes slip up.

Thoughts?

Alatariel75

I tend to come at it from the other direction - I eat low during the week so I have more calories to play with on the weekend. It's not a matter of "making up for it", it's a conscious choice to allocate my calories in a way which suits my lifestyle.

FitWonderChick

If I have day or meals. I try to compensate by eating more veggies the next meal or day. You can average your calories over the week to make up for it instead of going all in on the calorie deficit the next day. Like divide how many less calories over the nest 6 days instead so you're not super hungry.

OliveGirl128

Alatariel75 wrote: »

I tend to come at it from the other direction - I eat low during the week so I have more calories to play with on the weekend. It's not a matter of "making up for it", it's a conscious choice to allocate my calories in a way which suits my lifestyle.

Yep, I do this too.

livingleanlivingclean

OliveGirl128 wrote: »

Alatariel75 wrote: »

I tend to come at it from the other direction - I eat low during the week so I have more calories to play with on the weekend. It's not a matter of "making up for it", it's a conscious choice to allocate my calories in a way which suits my lifestyle.

Yep, I do this too.

I do this three.

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amietest

I don't see it as punishing, I see it as evening things out as long as the numbers are reasonable. I ate my daughter's toast rather than pitch it. I cut out my bedtime snack to balance.

Went to bed without dinner due to a migraine a couple of days ago. Had a slice of homemade pizza the next day.

Now if I ate the leftovers in front of me right now...a donut, quesadilla, cookies, hamburger casserole, I could easily eat 1000 calories, say 600 calories more than I should have for dinner and snack. I could eat 100 calories less each day for a week and be even. Swapping a 150 calorie snack for a 50 calorie snack would do it.

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amietest

I am not familiar with binge and restrict. Generally I just make choices within the day. But I figure it as a food budget like a money budget. As long as you are responsible you will be ok.

Crazyfighter99

Actually, there are plenty of people who look at the week's average rather than worrying about individual days. As long as you're not making yourself go hungry and suffer, cutting an extra 50 calories from 6 days cause you went 300 over one day is not going to kill you. On the other hand, going 300 over one day won't hurt you either as long as you meet your goal the other days.

If you're at a deficit for calories for the week compared to what you need to maintain, I really wouldn't worry about it. Also remember, you are in this for the long haul, so one week over will not ruin everything. Hope that made sense... haha

One more note, I don't like to think of days that I go over as "bad days" it just sounds too negative. I just look at it as a day I went over and just tell myself I need to do better tomorrow!

dragon_girl26

Alatariel75 wrote: »

I tend to come at it from the other direction - I eat low during the week so I have more calories to play with on the weekend. It's not a matter of "making up for it", it's a conscious choice to allocate my calories in a way which suits my lifestyle.

This is my approach as well. It's not really anything to do with punishment or binge-restricting, it's a planned choice.

raeleigh26

If I have a bad food day I just go back to normal the next day and don't try compensating for the bad choices. It was one bad meal (some times 3 bad meals), but in all honesty its not that serious and you can get back on track.