Weekly calorie intake v daily calorie intake
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crazihel
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I just have a very simple question - it is better to meet your calorie goal absolutely every day or on average by the end of the week. I have days I go over and days I go under (particularly when I'm at the gym) my daily calorie goal of 1270. So does it make any difference?
I've lost weight before without the help of any apps or programs but decided to use MYP to help me shed the last bit of weight, not very used to counting calories seriously. Also I'm low on the friends front, so please add me if you want another friend.
Cheers
I just have a very simple question - it is better to meet your calorie goal absolutely every day or on average by the end of the week. I have days I go over and days I go under (particularly when I'm at the gym) my daily calorie goal of 1270. So does it make any difference?
I've lost weight before without the help of any apps or programs but decided to use MYP to help me shed the last bit of weight, not very used to counting calories seriously. Also I'm low on the friends front, so please add me if you want another friend.
Cheers
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I don't know an answer for sure; but I I used to do Weight Watchers online, and between the flex points and such, it was weekly. They would encourage you to stock pile a few extra calories for a Friday night out for example.0
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I usually look more closely at my weekly average.0
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I use a spreadsheet to track my daily calories. I make a point to always be under during the week, then I know how many I have left to give myself a bit of a splurge on the weekend. It's my answer to "cheat days", and it's worked out really well for me.0
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My experience has been weekly is fine. A lot of people on here will talk about 'zig zagging' and starvation mode, and I've no idea whether or not there is any merit to those arguments, I've just found that if I have an overall deficit at the end of the week I lose weight.
The way I do it (which I'm not proposing or evangelising) is to count from Saturday to Friday and aim for being between 0 - 500 calories over my overall weekly target - which is still 3,000 below my weekly requirement to maintain weight. Every Saturday I reset the counter and start again. Saturday, it is no coincidence, is usually the night I stuff my face with pizza and drink far far more than is good for me!0 -
I go for weekly net. As long as I am 100 cals either way at the end of the week, then it's all good!0
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Weekly is fine.0
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I aim for daily but console myself with weekly when weakly requirements dictate0
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I go for weekly net. As long as I am 100 cals either way at the end of the week, then it's all good!
This all the way!0 -
I aim for weekly, especially if eating back exercise calories. There are some days when you just can't do it!0
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Weekly is fine.
This, but if your goal is only 1270 you really shouldn't ever be under on your gym days what are you netting, 800 cals?0 -
Weekly is fine.
This, but if your goal is only 1270 you really shouldn't ever be under on your gym days what are you netting, 800 cals?
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I don't know which is supposed to be better, but I've just been focusing on daily intake and I've been losing steadily.0
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I go for weekly. I wish MFP would show a weekly net calorie goal summary the way it does for exercise. It would make things easier to track!0
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Hello there,
I am Alastair, i weight 223 lbs, used to be in great shape 10 years ago with rugby etc etc. I now need to lose 20lbs....
I have cut my calories down from around 3000 a day to 1200 net...correct times of the day, 30 mins of cardio and weight training to build lean muscle, been going for ONE WEEK and lost 0.6 of one pound...
Am i doing something wrong?
What can i do better?
Thankyou!0 -
Weekly. I'm a zig-zagger... I eat slightly above maintenance on days I lift (heavy lifting, barbells) and considerably below maintenance on non-lifting days, which lets me make sure I adequately fuel workouts and recovery but still have an overall calorie deficit for the week.0
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I go for the overall weekly as days after a long run I get very hungry.0
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Hello there,
I am Alastair, i weight 223 lbs, used to be in great shape 10 years ago with rugby etc etc. I now need to lose 20lbs....
I have cut my calories down from around 3000 a day to 1200 net...correct times of the day, 30 mins of cardio and weight training to build lean muscle, been going for ONE WEEK and lost 0.6 of one pound...
Am i doing something wrong?
What can i do better?
Thankyou!
Well, you've only been at it one week so you haven't wrecked your body yet. You're eating way too little for a grown man. At 1200 calories a day you are LOSING muscle, not building it.0 -
Weekly absolutely works for me too.
I have fat Fridays and potluck lunches at work and the usual birthday and other social occasions with friends and famiily.
I can partake as I have eaten fewer calories the day(s) before and day after. After years of being on strict diets and failing, I now eat and celebrate with everyone else and dont feel deprived which usually ended up with "poor me" binges.0 -
Hey
I just have a very simple question - it is better to meet your calorie goal absolutely every day or on average by the end of the week. I have days I go over and days I go under (particularly when I'm at the gym) my daily calorie goal of 1270. So does it make any difference?
I've lost weight before without the help of any apps or programs but decided to use MYP to help me shed the last bit of weight, not very used to counting calories seriously. Also I'm low on the friends front, so please add me if you want another friend.
Cheers
in bold, for the win!
just because we break time into 24 hour blocks, doesn't mean our metabolic processes follow the same schedule. who can say how long it takes to actually store new fat or burn stored fat? there are several processes happening concurrently and sequentially, so step back and look at the whole forest instead of focusing on individual trees.
i log my calories and exercise to a spreadsheet daily and worry only how my monthly totals change. i don't shoot for any particular daily goal, i just focus on my average daily NET calories for the month and try to make that meet the goal. in the end, it' the big picture that matters.0 -
My overall goal is the weekly average. When I am marathon training I tend to have some big under days that I try to balance out with other days of quality food days that are higher in cals. I do still look at the days themselves though as it is not good practice to binge one day and fast another but the weekly average allows you to be 200 over or under one day...a little under and a little over another without worrying about it so much. Or like me, on Sundays I might be a big whopping 500 under but on Mondays if I take a rest day and am 200 over it all balances out at the end of the week.0
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