If you go over your calories...

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  • mreilly013
    mreilly013 Posts: 36 Member
    I try to average my calories out throughout the week. That being said if I go over by a couple hundred I try to lower my calories a bit the following days, maybe by like 50 calories or so, nothing drastic. Sometimes I'm crazy hungry and other times I hit a certain calorie amount and I'm like blah food. But if i look at my weekly number and I'm in the +/-range of about 200 I feel like I'm doing fine and it averages out.
  • Dodorap
    Dodorap Posts: 6 Member
    I find it difficult on weekends,. I'm usually good during the week but come weekend, I cant resist food my schedule is always all over the place.
  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,307 Member
    Semi OT: how close to your goal do you (as in the general you, all of you, not someone specific) think you need to be? I'm never going to hit 1200 dead on, and most days I'm coming up on the short side by a handful of calories. Like 2 - 39 calories shy of 1200. Today it would have been 89, but I decided to eat two pieces of chocolate so now I'll be 11 over. How close to your calorie goal do you get before you say, "Yeah, that's good enough"?

    its hard to be spot on i was often a little under so i changed my cal goals to 1250 and i am happy as long as i stay with in the 1200-1250

    i rarely go over my goals but if i do i just start fresh next day

    It would be very hard to exactly hit your target every day - unless you sit there at end of day counting out single calorie items like one grape or tic tac at a time, LOL

    I aim to be under by 100 or less or over by 50 or less. But now and then am over by bit more,say couple of hundred. If most other days were under, then the weekly average will still be right and that is good enough for me.

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