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What is Zig Zagging Calories

dids6457
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Hi there Ive been reading some topics and have read about people doing this, can anyone enlighten me as to what it is? Thanks!

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Basically you vary how many calories you eat per day depending on a weekly zig zag schedule. So you're getting around the same average number of calories, but you have higher days and lower days. I used this calculator to get how much I should eat per day, and I try to line up my big workout days with the higher calorie days.
http://www.freedieting.com/tools/calorie_calculator.htm0 -
Hi there Ive been reading some topics and have read about people doing this, can anyone enlighten me as to what it is? Thanks!
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/229634-it-s-working-i-m-unstuck
There's another link on there that explains it pretty well...0 -
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/178788-zig-zagging-calories-is-awesome?hl=zig+zag+calories
Tons and tons of threads already on this. Search and you will find many other variations.0 -
Explained here:
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/212510-how-to-zig-zag-cals-properly-caloric-cycling-properly?hl=zig-zag
Discussed here:
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/172693-zig-zag-calories-option?hl=Zip+Zagging#posts-2295415
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/229833-zig-zagging-calories-day-1?hl=zig-zag#posts-3067912
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/232466-please-help-me-zig-zag?hl=zig-zag#posts-3067816
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/232290-zig-zag-calorie-question?hl=zig-zag#posts-3064487
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/231732-zig-zag-calorie-dieting-question?hl=zig-zag#posts-3057235
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/230915-calorie-zig-zagging?hl=zig-zag#posts-3045869
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/230791-zig-zagging?hl=zig-zag#posts-3043827
For all the other topics that I didn't feel like C&P'ing:
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/post/search?page=2&phrase=zig-zag0
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