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cinder701
cinder701 Posts: 94
edited October 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Can I eat fewer calories today and save some for tomorrow? does that work?

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  • catwrangler
    catwrangler Posts: 918 Member
    I think you may be referring to "zig-zagging" wherein you may, as an example, eat 1200 calories one day and 1500 the next etc. etc.

    If you do a forum search for it you will get tons more info.
  • AmyG1982
    AmyG1982 Posts: 1,040 Member
    yep, you sure can... your ultimate goal is to have fewer calories consumed than burned... if you are at -400 today but +200 tomorrow you're still -200 for the two days... you just gotta make sure you don't have more high days than low days :p
  • camy_chick
    camy_chick Posts: 277 Member
    i think it's kind of like your weekly exercise goals - ie: your goal is 1000 minutes, or something like that, and you do none-100-500-or 1000 a day, it all equals to what you need in a week. make sense? it should average out. but still try not to go too far under or too far over.
  • CouleeRunner
    CouleeRunner Posts: 256 Member
    Yes you can. I always look at the bigger picture of a full week as opposed to individual days.
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