calorie cycling

xbabeykayx
xbabeykayx Posts: 78
edited September 2024 in Food and Nutrition
Just being curious im wondering if anyone has done calorie cycling before and so would like to confirm that what im doing is right :)

Heres a plan of what i usually do... 1500 calories being eaten on days i excercise.

Monday - 1500 + 45 cardio, 30 strength training.
Tuesday - 1200
Wednesday - 1500 + 45 cardio, 30 strength training.
Thursday - 1200
Friday - 1500 + 45 cardio, 30 strength training.
Saturday - 1200
Sunday - 1200

:)

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  • merrillfoster
    merrillfoster Posts: 855 Member
    Someone PLEASE correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think eating more on days you exercise is calorie cycling, I think that's what you're supposed to do anyway. The way I understand it (and forgive me if these are your net numbers, you don't indicate if they are or not. If they are, ignore my post, lol) calorie cycling you are supposed to eat a few hundred calories more some days but not burn them off. Otherwise you're just eating according to MFP's plan (which does not account for calorie cycling)
  • deannarey13
    deannarey13 Posts: 452
    Someone PLEASE correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think eating more on days you exercise is calorie cycling, I think that's what you're supposed to do anyway. The way I understand it (and forgive me if these are your net numbers, you don't indicate if they are or not. If they are, ignore my post, lol) calorie cycling you are supposed to eat a few hundred calories more some days but not burn them off. Otherwise you're just eating according to MFP's plan (which does not account for calorie cycling)

    Right.
  • khrys1
    khrys1 Posts: 444 Member
    I recently saw a post on here about "Zig Zagging Calories" that had some suggestions- do a search for that one- it had a daily calorie suggestion. Good luck!
  • AlwaysWanderer
    AlwaysWanderer Posts: 641 Member
    Do your exercise on the 1200 cal days, and leave that 1500 without exercise.That should do it. :happy:
  • mara232
    mara232 Posts: 93 Member
    That is not calorie cycling. I find cycling helps me when I hit a plateau. You take your overall calories for the week and split it up per day so that every other day you eat more calories (300-ish) then other days. Goal is not to go over weekly allotted though.

    What you are doing is taking in 1200 calories a day. Period.
  • downtome
    downtome Posts: 529 Member
    Lets say you normally eat 1200 calories a day and you want to calorie cycle to confuse your body. You would go up about 200-300 more calores on a few different days during the week BUT, you would still need to be at your net calories meaning with your exercise calories burned, you will still need to be at a higher number net so......

    you will increase your calories and still exercising but you will still eat more to get your net numbers up and over 300 calories or so then on a normal calorie day! All your doing is adding a few hundred calories a few days during the week but still keeping your net calories up there, your going to want to eat those calories or else why bother?! I hope this doesn't confuse you as sometimes it confuses me...LOL

    Good luck!
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