ZigZagging Question

rainunrefined

For those of you who successfully ZigZag, I have a couple questions. I'm a not a newbie to MFP, but I am to the ZZ mentality. I use this site: http://www.shapefit.com/calorie-intake-calculator.html# to determine how to distribute my calories.

Questions:
If I know I'm going to be going out and consuming more calories on a particular day.. can I pull cals from the previous day or following day? My weekly deficit would stay the same.. so it makes sense in my head that this would be okay once in a while. (of course, I will work out to make up as many calories as possible, but I'm referring to when that isn't enough)

I'm assuming I can still eat my exercise calories back on this plan, that just seems logical. Do any of you move your excess exercise calories around during the week to? Or do you treat those as 'use them or lose them' per day? Again, it makes sense to me that I could move them around if needed because my weekly deficit would remain the same.

I know MFP works on a day to day basis... but for the sake of ZigZagging which is ultimately a weekly thing - this is my thought process.

Thanks for any advice or direction!

rainunrefined

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thirtyandthriving

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Dave198lbs

I dont think Im a zig zagger but I watch my weekly calorie total, not my daily total and it works for me. I do stay close to my daily protein minimum though

Keiras_Mom

I don't zig zag. I do alternate day dieting, so I'm not sure how the correlation works, but pulling from a lower calorie day to add to a higher calorie day is not recommended in my plan. However, with alternate day dieting (JUDDD), you can rearrange your schedule after the initial two weeks so that any occassion that comes up can fall on a high calorie day. I do know that some of the same premises are at play (wherein you fool your body into staying out of starvation mode by changing the amount of calories consumed).

Probably no help.