What do you do with excess calories at the end of the day?

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  • drop_it_like_a_squat
    drop_it_like_a_squat Posts: 377 Member
    Eat them?
  • suziepoo1984
    suziepoo1984 Posts: 915 Member
    Ahhh.. I never ever seem to have this problem :(
  • bellesouth18
    bellesouth18 Posts: 1,071 Member
    Smash a Heath bar while it's still in the package. Then dump the bits on birthday cake ice cream.

    Or beer with the words "chocolate" and "oatmeal" on the label.

    <-- Rouge Chocolate Stout and New Orleans Style Cream Cheese ice cream beer float.

    O.M.G. that float sounds good. Where can I find those ingredients? I'm not that far from New Orleans, but surely there is an equivalent somewhere nearby in a grocery store?
  • bellesouth18
    bellesouth18 Posts: 1,071 Member
    Hot buttered PopTarts.

    There's an idea! Never thought about buttering my Pop Tart. Guess what I'm having for breakfast today?
  • deksgrl
    deksgrl Posts: 7,237 Member
    Ice cream.
  • Spiderkeys
    Spiderkeys Posts: 338 Member
    If i'm not hungry, I just pat myself on the back, an extra pound lost is more worth it than having an ice cream.
  • deksgrl
    deksgrl Posts: 7,237 Member
    If I had 700 calories left, I'd eat a bowl of ice cream of 300 calories and still have a 400 calorie deficit , more of a deficit than I need.
  • JoelleAnn78
    JoelleAnn78 Posts: 1,492 Member
    I came to this thread thinking there was a simple response -- "Eat them." But, now I see this thread is about oh so much more..........

    I am making notes for when, someday, I have calories left over and I can try out any of these amazing suggestions. Right now, it is usually a max of about 150-200 calories left over and I will have a beer or an ice cream sandwich :drinker:
  • splashblob
    splashblob Posts: 249 Member
    For now that I am maintaining, I always have some of them Calories left over. If I am hungry, I'd snack on something but if I am not hungry, I will just leave it at that. *Used to go crazy to hit my Calories goal....I was still under my Calories goal yet woke up gaining, highly possible from too much sodium.* Even though I under my calories goal I can still gain from soidum....:(

    ....I know it's just water weight but it is not a nice feeling when you see the number gone up like that.
  • adiggs2777
    adiggs2777 Posts: 111 Member
    Smash a Heath bar while it's still in the package. Then dump the bits on birthday cake ice cream.

    Or beer with the words "chocolate" and "oatmeal" on the label.

    This is what mine should be.

    Although it's close.

    Wine.

    Chocolate.

    Or both.

    And it's amazing what great motivation that can be some days.....

    Chocolate wine. Its like Yoohoo with alcohol.
  • Cheechos
    Cheechos Posts: 293
    I usually just go for whatever I can squeeze in that sounds good. Sometimes it's only a serving of sweet and spicy pickles (boy do I love those) and other times there's room for a bag of chips and a snack cake. Last night I had around 200 calories leftover, so I made popcorn and had a bunch of that.
  • jonnythan
    jonnythan Posts: 10,161 Member
    Its like Yoohoo with alcohol.

    Oh god. Why didn't I think of this sooner.
  • adiggs2777
    adiggs2777 Posts: 111 Member
    Its like Yoohoo with alcohol.

    Oh god. Why didn't I think of this sooner.

    You're welcome :happy:

    Anyhow, to answer the question... Yesterday I worked out like fiend and conservatively estimated that I exercised off 400 calories (MFP had me at over 600 burned which is ridic.) When I got home I had to make some of that up, along with the Dinner calories I had yet to consume. I had some aged white cheddar along with my dinner. Delish. I didn't eat all of the calories back though. I just made sure I was at about 1600 cals.
  • Achrya
    Achrya Posts: 16,913 Member
    If i'm not hungry, I just pat myself on the back, an extra pound lost is more worth it than having an ice cream.

    This is just not true.
  • JoRocka
    JoRocka Posts: 17,525 Member
    I store mine in Tupperware and save them all for the weekend. :drinker:

    this.

    I rarely have any left over- with my exercise I hit around 2000- and it's just so easy to eat 2k in a day. I have no idea how people struggle to eat 1000. Or claim that anyway.

    Shrug- I was super short yesterday like 500. But I had so much anxiety- I just couldn't be bothered. I also am pretty ball-parky with my logging- I am not super attentive. As long as the entry is "close" to what I made/ate- I'm happy- so I assume there is some additional calories I eat that aren't logged- I add spare's to that mental balance/tally as well.

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