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Eating back the calories when your "under your goal?''

VeinsAndBones
VeinsAndBones Posts: 550 Member
edited January 9 in Health and Weight Loss
I'm always 80-150 calories under my goal for that day, at the end of the week It would yield say 700 calories under the goal for that week, do you guys eat back those calories? Or do you use em as icing on the cake of a great week? :)

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  • GauchoMark
    GauchoMark Posts: 1,804 Member
    I wouldn't worry about 700 calories over a week's time. 100 calories a day is in the realm of estimation error anyways. I'd just say go with it and if you just want a good desert one day, you know you have 700 calories to play with!
  • mmapags
    mmapags Posts: 8,934 Member
    What Gaucho said.
  • hadapurpura
    hadapurpura Posts: 67
    It doesn't matter to me if I'm under my goal. I'd like to save those calories for something really good and tasty.
  • rose313
    rose313 Posts: 1,146 Member
    I just leave them in case I underestimated something else.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    I wouldn't worry about 700 calories over a week's time. 100 calories a day is in the realm of estimation error anyways. I'd just say go with it and if you just want a good desert one day, you know you have 700 calories to play with!

    ^^^this. If you were significantly under, could be an issue, but I wouldn't be too concerned with 100 calories.
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