fasting question

inyasha23
inyasha23 Posts: 15 Member
edited November 19 in Health and Weight Loss
if you were to stop eating at 12pm on Monday then fast till 12pm on Tuesday would all your maintenance calories from Monday go towards a calorie deficit?

say your maintenance is 2000 calories would that 1 day of fasting have created a 2000 calorie deficit?

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  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
    yes, or maybe a bit less than 2000 as your body will respond to the lack of food - as will you :-)
  • atypicalsmith
    atypicalsmith Posts: 2,742 Member
    As long as you don't go over the day after your fast (as I tend to do!)
  • inyasha23
    inyasha23 Posts: 15 Member
    sometimes im busy and don't eat for 16-20 hours. on those types of days would it be better to just fast for the rest of the day to create a larger weekly deficit since it's almost over anyways.
  • livingleanlivingclean
    livingleanlivingclean Posts: 11,751 Member
    inyasha23 wrote: »
    if you were to stop eating at 12pm on Monday then fast till 12pm on Tuesday would all your maintenance calories from Monday go towards a calorie deficit?

    say your maintenance is 2000 calories would that 1 day of fasting have created a 2000 calorie deficit?

    It would depend how much you ate on Monday and Tuesday. You could easily eat your normal daily calories before 12pm Monday, then your nomrla daily calories after 12pm Tuesday.
  • inyasha23
    inyasha23 Posts: 15 Member
    livingleanlivingclean wrote: »
    It would depend how much you ate on Monday and Tuesday. You could easily eat your normal daily calories before 12pm Monday, then your nomrla daily calories after 12pm Tuesday.

    so if you start the fast at say 9am on Monday and break it on 12pm on Tuesday?

    thats 27 hours, that would mean your now in a 2000 calorie deficit on Tuesday.
  • livingleanlivingclean
    livingleanlivingclean Posts: 11,751 Member
    inyasha23 wrote: »
    livingleanlivingclean wrote: »
    It would depend how much you ate on Monday and Tuesday. You could easily eat your normal daily calories before 12pm Monday, then your nomrla daily calories after 12pm Tuesday.

    so if you start the fast at say 9am on Monday and break it on 12pm on Tuesday?

    thats 27 hours, that would mean your now in a 2000 calorie deficit on Tuesday.

    Again, it would depend how much you ate on Monday morning and how much you ate after 12pm Tuesday.
  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
    Might be easier to look at it over a week than a day - you use 14000 (7*2000) and take the deficit from there.
  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,151 Member
    yarwell wrote: »
    Might be easier to look at it over a week than a day - you use 14000 (7*2000) and take the deficit from there.

    +1
  • athenasurrenders
    athenasurrenders Posts: 278 Member
    Yes in theory, but your hunger or the anticipation of being hungry might well lead you to overeat on the other days to cancel it out. The brain plays tricks on us that way. You might also find that you move less (without meaning to) because you are low on fuel.
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    I am befuddled at the complexity of this question

    You have a calorie defecit to hit across the week ..however you get there, totally up to you

    Ps by week I mean 7 days ..so you could use the app and just check the rolling 7 days
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