Calories: How much "over" is okay?

lucerorojo

I would try to stay within 50 calories either way. I find when I am over more than that and it happens often (like this past week since I was stressed out), it wipes out the deficit. I haven't gained from it, because I'm still under maintenance calories, but I would like to keep up the loss. (Still have 59 lbs. to go!) If you have a large deficit, like 1000 calories, it is not going to matter as much. But as others have said, don't beat yourself up about it, if occasionally you go over.