Borrowing calories for valentines meal?

i think if you don't eat like this everyday and if its a special occasion for both of you i say "no regrets" knock yourself out. just watch your calories on monday and maybe work out 15 more minutes. my opinion.

Yea, I agree with the above comments...you can do it occasionally, or work out more, or borrow so to speak. my dad has done calorie counting for almost 10 years now and he said overall it really has to do with the weekly consumption....which is why we never count weightloss per day but per week...so if you add up like you are supposed to have 1400ca/day for 7 days is 9800cal a day...as long as you are good on that you should be good on your weightloss:) So enjoy your valentines meal! I know I plan too! we are going to redlobster!!!

I wouldn't even bother borrowing cals. It's how you eat most of the time that counts. For me, occasional cheats actually rev up my metabolism and make weight loss easier. I go over my cals about once every 2 weeks.

Calorie counting is like at&t we have rollover calories. ha ha. Just kidding. Add in exercise and it will equal out.

other plans allow you to bank points.... up to 4 a day for a week. this equates to roughly 170 cal per day plus associated fat... when my wife and i were on that plan we'd have a night of anything goes... we still lost our 2 lbs a week.

I LOVE pancetta--the key to getting a lot of the fat off (without losing flavor, anyway) is to grill it instead of frying. I use a panini maker, but a George Forman grill would work just as well. The meal sounds wonderful! Enjoy it!

(And I'll suggest something crude: it's Valentine's Day, the most *ROMANTIC* day of the year. A treadmill is only one way to burn calories. Catch my drift?) :blushing:

Yeah, knowing what I've learned about how the human body burns calories, I am not a big fan of the concept of banking calories. It's a slippery slope, calories are either burned or stored as fat by the body. While this would apparently lend itself to the "banking" concept, in actuality it doesn't.

body fat is harder to turn into fuel than ingested calories from carbohydrates, so the ratio of fat to calories needed isn't 1 to 1. That being said, doing it for a special occasion isn't going to hurt too much (if at all). But I wouldn't count on calorie banking as an optimal weight loss strategy, it will probably work to a degree, but it reinforces indulgence as a reward, I don't particularly like that strategy. Not saying it won't work for some, just that IMHO there are better ways to reinforce good behavior. I am a big believer in goal achievement as a reinforcement strategy as opposed to a reward structure.

I realize you are asking about a special occasion, so I'll say again, I don't think 1 meal over your calories is an issue. But I would also say what some said above, don't pull calories from another day, just go over, maybe exercise a little extra to earn extra calories if you can, but let the day be a day over your calories, and keep the rest of your days normal.