Does anyone save up their exercise calories over the week?

Honestly I go over my calories occasionally...it happens. I just jump back in the next day and start over. With the exercise it sounds like you've been doing especially, you should definitely allow yourself those moments and enjoy! There are a lot of forums around here about zig-zagging your calories to keep your metabolism guessing...maybe look into that! Good luck!

i dont personally, but am off out sat nite and there will be hog roast, so am just gonna plan saturdays food intake more carefully than a normal sat, im not drinking cause am driving so thankfully no alcohol to add to calorie list

you are essentially asking the same thing i just did in a posting!

the response that i got was that your body doesnt work on an internal 24 hour clock... so basically to lose one pound a week you have to decrease your weekly intake my 3500 calories in total. to me, that means that YES you can save your burned calories for the weekend

and dont feel bad about going over your goal... remember how much extra you used to eat in a day before you tried losing weight? if its not too close to that and it only happens once in a while, i feel like its not too bad. we need to live. and loving food is a part that shouldnt be compromised in doing so

That's a Weight Watchers perspective but even WW says you shouldn’t use more than 10 points saved in any one sitting which is about 700 cals. If you are going to eat an extra 700 cals, be sure to exercise THAT day. The body wont remember all the calories you saved up over the past week but it will benefit by mixing things up a bit and eating more calories on at least one day to prevent starvation more. It’s also called carb cycling.

Instead just allow yourself one cheat meal – not a cheat day or you may end up at 4000 cals that day. If you eat about 2000 cals in a day, you are around maintenance so you wont gain but you’ll still enjoy food that you don’t normally have.

I know people on here say they don’t deny themselves anything, they have a little piece of chocolate or whatever when they want it but I personally have never experienced cravings so I would rather enjoy a whole ice cream code – not the low fat junk on Saturday night and not have to worry about the 300 or so cals it was.

the thing with calorie reduction/weight loss is that you are looking for the "over all effect" in other words, over time. Be wary of "over doing it" on the week ends though. If you track long enough, you will see a difference. Going over a few days here and there isn't going to kill everything you've done, as long as you keep going in the right direction. And no, being obsessed with your calorie count isn't good at all, in fact a few days here and there over calories is ok; gives you and your body and break. Now mind you, I said a FEW days here and there. Now, if you "go over" on the weekends, the next day you may see a slight jump in weight, but that's no big deal if over all you are on track, just keep this in mind. Make sure you are also fueling yourself well, nutrients and water. Also keep in mind sodium intake, big one here. Keep things in balance though, if you save 1000 calories for the weekend, and eat it all, you're gonna see a jump regard less in weight the next few days, But like I said, keep things balance and moving forward...
sorry for the long post, these are just things I have found out in my life/weight Journey.
At first I was obsessed in counting, but then I learned a thing or two about how my body really works, and I still lost tons of weight and I know you can do it too! :flowerforyou: