Banking exercise for Thanksgiving

JM11413

Here's the plan...

I do my regular daily exercise and log it accordingly, but also do an additional 15-20 minutes per day that I do not record or eat back on those days. Instead, I pre-log that extra time for Thursday to allow myself some additional Thanksgiving calories.

Does anyone else do this? Is there any reason why this wouldn't be effective?

TavistockToad

I bank every week for the weekend.

GottaBurnEmAll

A lot of people bank calories for all sorts of things. I remember banking calories to have cheesecake for my birthday one year. It's a great strategy.

mgookin

I havent been hungry lately, so I have roughly 1800 calories banked that I will use for Thanksgiving. I'm not tracking that day and dont plan on going too crazy, but want to be on the safe side.

Running2Fit

I’m just banking all my exercise calories next week for Thanksgiving. I’m not going to track that day (too much of a hassle when I’m doing so much cooking) so it will be nice to have the extra calories as a cushion for however much I end up going over.

There’s no reason your plan shouldn’t work. Lots of people do stuff like that every week to have extra calories for the weekend or other special events.

CarvedTones

It really doesn't matter whether you look at it as exercise or consumption calories. The deficit or surplus over several days is all that matters. If you go a few days with a bigger deficit than you are trying to average and then even it out, it's no different than eating the average amount every day.

mph323

Sure, that's a good strategy. I look at my calories on a weekly basis, so I can bank or "borrow" calories on various days and still stay within my goal.

Asher_Ethan

Yep. I have my diary set to lose 2 pounds this week (instead of the usual 1) just so I can enjoy my husband's pumpkin risotto and mashed baked potatoes and still lose.

Orphia

JM11413 wrote: »

Here's the plan...

I do my regular daily exercise and log it accordingly, but also do an additional 15-20 minutes per day that I do not record or eat back on those days. Instead, I pre-log that extra time for Thursday to allow myself some additional Thanksgiving calories.

Does anyone else do this? Is there any reason why this wouldn't be effective?

I don't think it works with my Garmin which tracks me 24/7. Any time I've tried to add extra exercise to fix something, it gets overwritten (due to negative calorie adjustments setting which I prefer).

I just check my weekly calories instead, and bank for special events.

Runaroundafieldx2

Do you know that you have weekly charts on the app?

I call it my weekend calorie bank.

For people who don't know.
Go into your food diary, scroll to the bottom, click nutrition. Then click the date and change to weekly. Click calories then click net.
Scroll down to where it says calories under weekly goal.