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2 days on target, or 1 above & 1 below?

Scubdup
Scubdup Posts: 104 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
Is there any difference between being bang on my calorie target for 2 days, or going over by X one day and by being under by X the next?

I'm trying to frame a sensible question out of my request to you all to use my calorie deficit from yesterday to justify the beer in my hand...

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  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    No...you don't reset at midnight or anything...energy balance happens on a continuum.
  • J72FIT
    J72FIT Posts: 6,035 Member
    Think averages. Week to week instead of day to day...
  • pancakerunner
    pancakerunner Posts: 6,137 Member
    J72FIT wrote: »
    Think averages. Week to week instead of day to day...

    ^^ this. Balance.
  • cmtigger
    cmtigger Posts: 1,450 Member
    The only thing that I might have a problem with is that if the under day is too much under, I'm going to want to eat a lot again the next day. But that depends on you. For weight loss the average matters. For self control it may vary.
  • lorrpb
    lorrpb Posts: 11,463 Member
    If you are under one day and make up for it with a beer the next, you're depriving yourself of much needed nutrition.
  • Scubdup
    Scubdup Posts: 104 Member
    Thanks for the replies. Reassuring. I wouldn't want to cut out too many effervescent isotonic b-vitamin drinks from my weekly intake.
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