Saved calories?

njcarter42
njcarter42 Posts: 4
in Food and Nutrition
Just wondering, can you carry over unused calories to the next day? As long as your weekly points are ok?

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  • Hbazzell
    Hbazzell Posts: 899 Member
    some people do that. I dont but I have seen it is fairly popular.
  • ShannonECTD
    ShannonECTD Posts: 203 Member
    if you are honest and accurate with your tracking if you eat a bit lighter during the week so you can eat a little bit more on the weekends, or if you are a bit light one day and go a little over the next i don't see that hurting anything. As long as you still have a good deficit for the week you should still see a loss (depending on what the deficit is... a 300 calorie weekly deficit probably wouldn't produce much change lol).
  • misssmarita
    misssmarita Posts: 130
    YES, but within reason. For example: it's perfectly ok to stay a couple hundrer calories under your goal (preferably by exercise) during the week, and then have a "mini pig-out" on Saturday or Sunday at a restaurant. It's nok ok to starve yourself for three days and then go 2000 calories over your limit on day four. But that stands to reason. Just use some common sense in how you do it, and you'll be ok :)
  • Firefox7275
    Firefox7275 Posts: 2,040 Member
    Points are not calories, two different systems.

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