Do calories really work on a 24 hour cycle?

tsweetla

We track per day, but do calories really work on a 24 hour time cycle? Do you really start with a clean slate each morning? For example, Hypothetically (I'm not planning on doing this), if I binge out and eat the whole chocolate cake one day, consume 3600 calories, can I eat nothing for 2 days and it roughly works out over the total 3 day period? (3 days would be 3600 calories normally).

shakybabe

I'm not sure? do they carry on from day before? we count 1200 from when we wake up.. mainly cos we usually fasted overnight.

I guess they may work out at some point but dunno about eating 3600 one day then starving for the next two!

Halothane

No, your body is a 24/7/365 machine.

ElizabethRoad

No, it's just the easiest way to track it.

Eating an entire chocolate cake as your entire nutrition for 3 days is not a great idea for your health... But if you ate 3600 calories of nutritious food and then fasted for 2 days... well I wouldn't do it but it wouldn't make you fat.