Calories Burned the following morning

Dudagarcia

Do you suppose if I worked out Friday am 2mi on elliptical & had a cheat dinner and went over my calories and I exercised the following morning, did 5mi does it make any difference on the cheat nite? Do you burn off any of those calories. I've always been curious. Thanks for your imput.

stylistchik

Really it's just a continuous circle, your body doesn't stop metabolizing at midnight and then start over so yeah, I think it would even out. If it were me I wouldn't log those exercise calories though (or at least not eat them back) because then you're right back where you started.

engineman312

your body acts more on a week to week basis, rather then a day to day way.

for instance, thursday i went over my calories by about 650. i'm ok with that because it was a rest day and i knew i was going to have a sick burn friday (1312 calories... bring it!!). so if i spread those calories out over two days, i have an extra 662 calories for today.

MaximalLife

Do you suppose if I worked out Friday am 2mi on elliptical & had a cheat dinner and went over my calories and I exercised the following morning, did 5mi does it make any difference on the cheat nite? Do you burn off any of those calories. I've always been curious. Thanks for your imput.

After my "Cheat Day", my metabolism goes into overdrive.
I'd love one of our resident egg heads to explain the actual science behind this.
Science just bores me or else I might have studied up on it.
I love my cheat day, or as I prefer to say: "RE-FEED THERAPY"
I have a weekly day where I eat about twice my daily goal, and a monthly food orgy where I eat like a man going to the electric chair for 24 hours.

LOVE IT!
It's nice knowing I am never more than 7 days from eating anything I desire in whatever quantity I want.
I'd go nuts otherwise.

subtractionproject

The human body doesn't really work in 24hr time laws. It doesn't store food in allocated bins labelled, 'Last Nights Dinner', and you have to work all that off before it moves onto the next meal.

It helps to think of your daily meals as adding up to a whole week's worth of calorie deficit. Exercising any time helps you to work towards that collective deficit, and a meal out is really only a drop in the ocean. Really, unless you really go crazy and overeat by 3500 calories, it probably won't make any difference hardly at all.

DLDzioba

After my "Cheat Day", my metabolism goes into overdrive.
I'd love one of our resident egg heads to explain the actual science behind this.
Science just bores me or else I might have studied up on it.
I love my cheat day, or as I prefer to say: "RE-FEED THERAPY"
I have a weekly day where I eat about twice my daily goal, and a monthly food orgy where I eat like a man going to the electric chair for 24 hours.

LOVE IT!
It's nice knowing I am never more than 7 days from eating anything I desire in whatever quantity I want.
I'd go nuts otherwise.

That sounds.... a little crazy but highly appealing. *blinks* I don't think I could do double my food goal without like...lots of soda. O.o

kag1526

I also have a planned cheat day, I tried two weeks last once without it and did worse then the times I did with a cheat day. I have mfp set to 1 lb a week but am heavy enough to lose more. I aim for about 300 under my goal each day and on one day blow the extra...

yesterday was mine. I went an hour away to a running store to get running shoes, but also a place that has much more food options that we don't have here. So I ate at the cheesecake factory for the first time in my life. I must say its a good thing I had never been there or I probably would have weighed over 300 lbs before I started. Its also good that its an hour away and I can't fall off the wagon by eating there too much!!

Dudagarcia

Thanks everyone, I guess I needed to include also that I do cardio 6 days a week from 30-45 min and also include a 30 min strength training targeting different areas of my body. One day lower body, next upper body, next ab w/o and i've seen quite a difference in my body shape, I've lost 38 lbs. I'm 57 years young. However, when I log in my workouts, I only log in the cardio and don't include the strength training. I've always been someone that loves to workout. Once a week I throw in a 5mi w/o. Have an awesome weekend! You all have been such a great help.