Advice needed from fellow Zig Zaggers

butterfly0475

I just started zig zagging my calories this past week. I entered 3x week work outs on the freedieting.com web site. My question is, do I aim for those zig zag calories as my net calories (if I do burn exercise calories) or my total calories eaten for the day? On most weeks I burn exercise calories 5 plus days a week. Please assist as I am up almost a pound from last week and need to figure out the plan. Thanks!

nancymmorris

Bump

irisannRN

I was wondering the exact same thing. I was assuming that if you enter how many days you are working out on the website that calculated your zig-zag plan, that you do not log any exercises (as they are already calculated in) and just eat that set amount of calories ......

McKayMachina

Always work in net calories.

Xaspar

I would suggest trying a different tactic.. Enter in for a sedentary week and compare. If there is a noticable difference, then eat whet the first plan says. If not, then go with sedentary and eat back the calories.