Do you bank exercise?

kristinkt

Do you ever bank your exercise calories burned for a future event when you know you will need some extra calories available? And if you have do this does it work well for you? Thanks for all input!

fatboypup

no but if i could save the calories like WW style id be set lol

rockerbabyy

i always eat at least some of my exercise calories on the day they were earned, however i also use sunday as my "free for all" day if i have leftover ones from the week. sometimes that falls on a special occasion type day, sometimes it doesnt and i just switch the days and call it good.

MrsRobertson1005

i do like for a week, i just tell myself for that week it is ok to go over some days and be under some days, as long as that week evens out i call it good

taso42

No, I prefer to keep things very simple.

hjfischer

My body does not work this way. I work out hard some days and other days I just work out. In the end, I try to maintain calories through the week and have one cheat day.

Quasita

I wouldn't for a month or anything but like if I had a wedding to attend on Saturday night, I might work extra hard this week and eat back like 1/3 of my burns at least. I'd also try to plan ahead... So like, if they sent out the menu in the invitations, I'd count the calories, get a general estimate of how much is in a piece of wedding cake, add a few drinks if I felt like it... But would also figure out how any calories I would burn dancing at the reception or what have you.

I honestly don't know how well this would work, as I usually try to burn my extra calories the day of. If I way overdo it, I would make it up after the fact rather than overdo exercise in anticipation. You might gain all the more from a big event if you don't eat enough leading up to it. Better to develop your muscles to be better prepared for processing the calories than to starve them in anticipation.

nehushtan

I track calories per week now instead of per day. If I'm over one day, I'll make it up another day. If I'm under a few days in a row, I'll indulge some later in the week.

Basically I'm "banking" all my calories now, whether they are my "standard" or "exercise" allowances. They slosh about in a seven-day bucket (Sun-Sat) instead of jiggling in seven one-day test tubes.

I don't think the body knows the difference really.