What would or do you eat with 1000-1200 banked calories for the week?
nighthawk584
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this is what I have in the calorie bank from Sunday through Friday. Doubtful I will eat them back (normally don't)...just curious of what you would eat? Happy weekend!
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Pizza with sausage, brocolli and mushrooms. My guilty pleasure. 😊5
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Wine, cheese, pasta, meat or seafood, veggies, salad, fruit, dessert, more wine. Typical Sunday for me
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Pizza ... garlic knots ... beer ... Maybe since it's summer I'd skip the knots and have an ice cream cone after.2
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Brownies.5
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Cap'n Crunch.1
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Chocolate1
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Probably IPA, or blue corn enchiladas (OK, half serving for 1200, with the sides
), or gelato, or . . . . 3 -
I do this every week! I alternate between any of the following: donuts, ice cream, chicken tenders, bacon cheeseburgers, pizza, a meal out or something like snacks at a ballpark, real cake (“real” means a cake that usually comes in around 1300 calories/slice) or a fancy pasta dinner (like actual Alfredo-not made from cauliflower). The possibilities are endless!
Basically-anything and everything that is too calorie-dense for me to fit into a “normal” day because either they are just higher calories than I have to work with or I don’t find the foods filling (so I need to eat something else with them to not be hungry-which then puts me over my calorie goal).
I don’t drink or I would probably allocate some calories for cocktails as well.5 -
Brisket and caramel corn. Or maybe just caramel corn given how hard it is for me to fit that into my calorie allotment.1
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Dessert0
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After I finish those garlic knots, pretty much anything on the menu at this place:
https://www.dcbbq.com/
It is a testament to human strength and endurance that I have managed to avoid going into that place since starting my diet, while driving past it approximately a hundred times.4 -
Indian food, especially some veggie samosas, mmmmm.....2
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A super decadent triple chocolate cake mmm1
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Indian food or an interesting local restaurant I've been wanting to try with friends.3
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It is fun to have some to spend, isn't it? I almost always bank calories for this reason.0
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It’s not a “bank”. Storing and using energy are not static processes, esp over a period like a week.
If you under eat, then you lose weight more quickly, and if you overeat, you gain it back. The extra fat is your “bank”.
You can do what you want and there is nothing wrong with relaxing your “vigilance” for a day.13 -
A cherry ripe, extra bowl of porridge and A peanut butter and jam sandwich0
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Anything vegan 😋🍓1
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It’s not a “bank”. Storing and using energy are not static processes, esp over a period like a week.
If you under eat, then you lose weight more quickly, and if you overeat, you gain it back. The extra fat is your “bank”.
You can do what you want and there is nothing wrong with relaxing your “vigilance” for a day.
The vigilance isn't lowered because the energy equation doesn't reset on a 24 hour period. Many people view calories as a budget and banking is a natural extension of that concept.11 -
Wine. Then more wine again the next day, as 1000 calories worth of wine would probably land me in hospital.2
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Pizza ... garlic knots ... beer ... Maybe since it's summer I'd skip the knots and have an ice cream cone after.
The last place I tried garlic knots, they brought me ONE that probably had twice the number of calories you're asking about (and yes, those are garlic cloves that got stuffed inside along with olive oil before they baked the thing)
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A really fun place for Sunday brunch with a couple of mimosas.
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Home-made ice cream. All the store brands are Way Too Sweet for me.2
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I personally do not believe in banking.
It's not that I don't think you can't continue to lose/maintain wt by doing it. A lot of people say that they've done it successfully for years.
I just think it's better to treat each day as a separate event w/the same dietary goal each day. Some days you'll do better or worse than expected but that's no reason to reward or punish yourself the next day (or week) by eating more or less than your specific goal each day (or week).
If over the long term, you are more successful than not, you will achieve your goal w/o the need to resort to banking or any other compensatiry dietary technique.
At least that's how I lost 40# in 6 months, maintained that loss for 3 yrs and lost another 5# in the past 3 months.3 -
Pizza ... garlic knots ... beer ... Maybe since it's summer I'd skip the knots and have an ice cream cone after.
The last place I tried garlic knots, they brought me ONE that probably had twice the number of calories you're asking about (and yes, those are garlic cloves that got stuffed inside along with olive oil before they baked the thing)
I would be willing to trade a limb for that.0 -
I personally do not believe in banking.
It's not that I don't think you can't continue to lose/maintain wt by doing it. A lot of people say that they've done it successfully for years.
I just think it's better to treat each day as a separate event w/the same dietary goal each day. Some days you'll do better or worse than expected but that's no reason to reward or punish yourself the next day (or week) by eating more or less than your dpecific goal each day (or week).
If over the long term, you are more successful than not, you will achieve your goal w/o the need to resort to banking or any other compensatiry dietary technique.
At least that's how I lost 40# in 6 months, maintained that loss for 3 yrs and lost another 5# in the past 3 months.
That is a personal choice. It would not work for me. I don't consider it rewarding or punishing I just call it my normal life. My hunger is not consistent and while it once worked against me I now manage it properly and use it to my advantage.
I tried an experiment doing the everyday calorie goal thing. I thought it might be easier. It was not. I hated it. Perhaps at some point things will change and I will evolve into that pattern but for now I do not find it sustainable.4
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