Counting calories

lovablez
lovablez Posts: 3 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
i have a question.. If lets say yesterday I went over my daily calories can I eat less today to make up for those calories? It's just a few hundred calories or should I still eat the daily allowance which for me is 1230 calories PLS be advice ty!!!

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  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    I tend to look at things over a longer period of time...like a week. You don't have a 24 hour reset or anything.

    Ultimately, the bottom line is the bottom line...your overall deficit over the course of a week is going to determine your rate of loss.
  • SergeantSausage
    SergeantSausage Posts: 1,673 Member
    Meh. It all balances out. A little more today, a little less tomorrow. It's a long-term average deficit that matters.
  • oneloopygirl
    oneloopygirl Posts: 151 Member
    cwolfman13 wrote: »
    I tend to look at things over a longer period of time...like a week. You don't have a 24 hour reset or anything.

    Ultimately, the bottom line is the bottom line...your overall deficit over the course of a week is going to determine your rate of loss.

    This! One day doesn't make or break you. It's the habits over time that do...
  • Blueseraphchaos
    Blueseraphchaos Posts: 843 Member
    If your calories are so low already anyway, i wouldn't bother cutting them by a few hundred today. You should still be under maintenance from your overage the other day anyway, so you're not going to gain fat even if you gain a bit of water weight (which will come off with a day or so). You'll still lose weight, and i don't know about you, but I'd be pretty miserable eating less than 1200, lol
  • lovablez
    lovablez Posts: 3 Member
    This helped a lot thank you! Yes i don't want to starve myself though I stay pretty close to my daily allowance now and I eat clean.!! It just needs to be a lifestyle for me to be able to sustain it. I love how if I worked out I'll be able to eat a little more but last Tuesday I hurt my knee while doing jump squats. I landed wrong so now I'm a little bummed out and I can't do any leg lower body exercises because I can't bend my left knee.
  • RockstarWilson
    RockstarWilson Posts: 836 Member
    Oh just forget about it...how much you want to drag this on? What if you ate 1500 over, what would you do then, not eat the next day? Same answer as the one to the question you have now. End of story, kapiche?
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