What do you do with extra calories?

RunningTowardsFit
RunningTowardsFit Posts: 81
edited January 6 in Health and Weight Loss
Hi friends,
I have found myself on bed rest and only able to eat about 1200 calories out of my 1550 allotted. The end of the week for me comes on Saturday. Should I eat the extra calories (or am I already eating too many for bed-rest?).

What do you do at the end of the week with extra calories?

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  • psuLemon
    psuLemon Posts: 38,442 MFP Moderator
    If you have some extra calories and hungry, then you can eat a little more (high protein ones are better like I mentioned in your other thread).
  • BurtHuttz
    BurtHuttz Posts: 3,653 Member
    I would imagine the calorie target of 1550 is built on the assumption that you do some sort of normal daily activity over and above lying in bed - - walking around, making a pot of coffee, etc. If you're *just* lying in bed, you are burning less energy and don't need to consume as much; so if you're not hungry, don't eat. If you're on bed rest from something that you need to heal up from, however, make sure you get enough nutrition so that your body can fix itself :-)
  • 1ConcreteGirl
    1ConcreteGirl Posts: 3,677 Member
    I'm saving mine for Christmas.

    For now, you're probably fine at 1200 if you are lying in bed and don't feel like eating.
  • FitBeto
    FitBeto Posts: 2,121 Member
    Talk shi+ to them. Little bastardos
  • Onesnap
    Onesnap Posts: 2,819 Member
    Here's the thing.

    If you only eat 1200 and do anything active during the day (walking, running errands, running, a class at the gym) you are not fueling your machine properly.

    you did not become overweight by NOT EATING ENOUGH.

    Feed that machine with yogurt, fruit, nuts, oatmeal, healthy whole grains. You can visit www.dailygarnish.com for some healthy meal ideas! (parcel 'em out into snack portions).

    Feed your machine!
  • Onesnap
    Onesnap Posts: 2,819 Member
    whoops, missed that you are on bed rest.

    Still 1200 does not seem like enough.
  • MoreBean13
    MoreBean13 Posts: 8,701 Member
    It's short term- I wouldn't worry about it too much. If you don't want them, don't eat them.

    However, don't intentionally skimp calories if you're healing from something...healing generally means rebuilding tissue, fighting infection, whatever- all of which needs fuel. You aren't doing yourself any favors if you're intentionally skimping just because your activity is low while you're healing.
  • taso42
    taso42 Posts: 8,980 Member
    extra calories? what's that?
  • kristen6022
    kristen6022 Posts: 1,923 Member
    I never have extra calories - I have no clue how to answer this question.
  • NotRailMeat
    NotRailMeat Posts: 509 Member
    Sell them to the highest bidder... Staring bid $100...
  • OkieinMinny
    OkieinMinny Posts: 834 Member
    extra calories? what's that?

    ^^ that was my thought....I eat them all!
  • taunto
    taunto Posts: 6,420 Member
    Scotch
    Beer
    licking whip cream off of a girls abs

    endless possibilities

    You can also eat them the day day or something to kinda balance out between 2 days
  • pastryari
    pastryari Posts: 8,646 Member
    extra calories? what's that?

    It's like extra wine - a myth.
  • RunningTowardsFit
    RunningTowardsFit Posts: 81
    Thank you for the responses, so far. As of now I have over 800 calories left from earlier days this week. I am getting a little hungrier than I have been in the last two days. I am not sure if I should eat some of the calories back from 3 days ago or leave them. I want to respect my body and its hunger and fullness, but I also don't just want to eat because I am on bedrest for a week or so.
  • Onesnap
    Onesnap Posts: 2,819 Member
    extra calories? what's that?

    It's like extra wine - a myth.

    Actually it's not. If I did not eat up my EXTRA at day's end I'd be fueling my healthy 35 year old body with only 750 calories.

    If it's a myth go join another program.
  • EvgeniZyntx
    EvgeniZyntx Posts: 24,208 Member
    I have extra calories today, I'm going to have ice cream or chocolate or both. I already ate a pound of yoghurt (quark). My dinner was 1500 plus calories.

    So I eat them. Grow up strong.

    Oh, and I'm still losing.
  • Onesnap
    Onesnap Posts: 2,819 Member
    Thank you for the responses, so far. As of now I have over 800 calories left from earlier days this week. I am getting a little hungrier than I have been in the last two days. I am not sure if I should eat some of the calories back from 3 days ago or leave them. I want to respect my body and its hunger and fullness, but I also don't just want to eat because I am on bedrest for a week or so.

    Your body is on a 24 hour clock.

    That's from one of my doctors. You can't give and take from other days.
  • pastryari
    pastryari Posts: 8,646 Member
    extra calories? what's that?

    It's like extra wine - a myth.

    Actually it's not. If I did not eat up my EXTRA at day's end I'd be fueling my healthy 35 year old body with only 750 calories.

    If it's a myth go join another program.

    DVvLE.jpg
  • MoreBean13
    MoreBean13 Posts: 8,701 Member
    Thank you for the responses, so far. As of now I have over 800 calories left from earlier days this week. I am getting a little hungrier than I have been in the last two days. I am not sure if I should eat some of the calories back from 3 days ago or leave them. I want to respect my body and its hunger and fullness, but I also don't just want to eat because I am on bedrest for a week or so.

    Your body is on a 24 hour clock.

    That's from one of my doctors. You can't give and take from other days.

    Yeah, meaning you are always using fuel, not that your calories reset every 24 hrs. Of course you can rollover calories* if you want to. There is absolutely zero truth to your body somehow resetting every 24-hrs.

    *within limits. Balancing your calories out over a week is fine.
  • T1mH
    T1mH Posts: 568 Member
    Hi friends,
    I have found myself on bed rest and only able to eat about 1200 calories out of my 1550 allotted. The end of the week for me comes on Saturday. Should I eat the extra calories (or am I already eating too many for bed-rest?).

    What do you do at the end of the week with extra calories?
    If a doctor put you on bed rest or gave you the 1550 a day goal then talk to him. We don't know the specifics of your situation.

    If your just following the the MFP plan then don't worry if you don't hit your goal during this period of decreased activity. Do not eat back your calories from previous days.
  • Duck_Puddle
    Duck_Puddle Posts: 3,237 Member
    Thank you for the responses, so far. As of now I have over 800 calories left from earlier days this week. I am getting a little hungrier than I have been in the last two days. I am not sure if I should eat some of the calories back from 3 days ago or leave them. I want to respect my body and its hunger and fullness, but I also don't just want to eat because I am on bedrest for a week or so.

    I don't know why you're on bedrest (and it's not my business), but I recently had surgery and found that I had the opposite of extra calories while things were "actively" healing (the incisions and such). I seriously ate all the food-all of it. Please feed yourself if you're hungry and healing. If you're healing from something, feed yourself if you're hungry. Your body may need more fuel to heal than you think. So the idea of extra calories is foreign to me in general, please focus on getting well-not whether you are over/under calories for a week.
  • Onesnap
    Onesnap Posts: 2,819 Member

    I don't know why you're on bedrest (and it's not my business), but I recently had surgery and found that I had the opposite of extra calories while things were "actively" healing (the incisions and such). I seriously ate all the food-all of it. Please feed yourself if you're hungry and healing. If you're healing from something, feed yourself if you're hungry. Your body may need more fuel to heal than you think. So the idea of extra calories is foreign to me in general, please focus on getting well-not whether you are over/under calories for a week.

    Well put.
  • RunningTowardsFit
    RunningTowardsFit Posts: 81
    Thank you for the responses, so far. As of now I have over 800 calories left from earlier days this week. I am getting a little hungrier than I have been in the last two days. I am not sure if I should eat some of the calories back from 3 days ago or leave them. I want to respect my body and its hunger and fullness, but I also don't just want to eat because I am on bedrest for a week or so.

    I don't know why you're on bedrest (and it's not my business), but I recently had surgery and found that I had the opposite of extra calories while things were "actively" healing (the incisions and such). I seriously ate all the food-all of it. Please feed yourself if you're hungry and healing. If you're healing from something, feed yourself if you're hungry. Your body may need more fuel to heal than you think. So the idea of extra calories is foreign to me in general, please focus on getting well-not whether you are over/under calories for a week.

    Thank you for your input. I am on bedrest for nose surgery (my sinuses were all reconstructed) and my deviated septum as well. I am on a steroid and have also been constipated due to the fact of the anesthesia. My body is just all out of whack right now. Thanks for your input.
  • psuLemon
    psuLemon Posts: 38,442 MFP Moderator
    extra calories? what's that?

    It's like extra wine - a myth.

    Actually it's not. If I did not eat up my EXTRA at day's end I'd be fueling my healthy 35 year old body with only 750 calories.

    If it's a myth go join another program.

    DVvLE.jpg

    Lmfao.. best response ever
  • zena92
    zena92 Posts: 128 Member
    extra calories? what's that?

    It's like extra wine - a myth.

    ^^^THIS

    haha, best post i've read today..

    but yeah, i would probably have something high in protein, maybe a spoonful of peanut butter or a hand full of nuts? if not then there's always fruit :)
    good luck!
  • Koldnomore
    Koldnomore Posts: 1,613 Member
    Eat if you are hungry. If you are recovering then definitely eat.

    I have about 1100 I'll be rolling over from my missing lunch today and my workout yesterday. I carry forward both overages and shortages all the time..still losing. Your body doesn't automatically stop using calories just because the clock changes so if you eat less one day then you can easily eat more on another ;)
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