When you have a calorie overload...

Honestly? I just forget about it. If I try to make up for it, it's either too much exercise or I'm starving. I just resume business as usual starting with the next meal.

115Everest wrote: »

Honestly? I just forget about it. If I try to make up for it, it's either too much exercise or I'm starving. I just resume business as usual starting with the next meal.

+1

115Everest wrote: »

Honestly? I just forget about it. If I try to make up for it, it's either too much exercise or I'm starving. I just resume business as usual starting with the next meal.

This.

I whip myself with a cat-o'-9-tails for penance. Serves me right.

I don't even care. Some days are over and some are under. Usually, if I'm over or under one day, I'll be less or more hungry the next. Not always, but usually.

It's just not something I worry about, but I tend to have more under than over days.

most people dont care. I on the other hand cannot do nothing about a 6-8k calorie binge. Two pounds of fat will show. The next two days i eat about 500 calories, mainly protein. Take advantage of the energy and hit the weights hard and do many many hours of cardio(mountain bike rides) and any other kind of activity i can think of to have big burn days to fix the screw up quickly. Oh i make sure i dont forget to take my multi vitamin

Depends on what number we're talking about and whether I'm trying to maintain or lose weight at the time.

If I'm trying to lose and I go over by ~2000 calories on one day, I'll probably just log it and move on. If I'm trying to maintain, I'll shoot for being under goal by 200 calories or so for at least a few days, drink lots of water, and wait it out.

It's working so far and I'm happy about that

~Lyssa

I try to balance it out over the week. This past week for example:

Mon - 382 (consumed 2132)
Tues - 10 (consumed 2556)
Wed - 787 (consumed 1702)
Thurs - 571 (consumed 2156)
Fri - 372 (consumed 2517)
Sat - 548 (consumed 2491)
Sun - ?? (consumed 2107)
I won't know 100% for sure, until midnight or tomorrow morning (most likely morning) what my total deficit was for today. I figure it out with my activity tracker. However, my tracker says I still have 300 calories remaining (MFP says 400) so my guess is it should be around 800. So for the week, my total deficit is 3470 approximately. That means I overate by 30 calories this week (at least that's my guess right now).

Balancing my deficit on a weekly basis (instead of a daily) also makes it easier with holidays, birthdays and other events.

edit:
Oh, I added what I actually ate calorie wise to hopefully prevent people from assuming I'm starving myself.

kae612 wrote: »

arditarose wrote: »

I usually account for a pretty high day and use a weekly deficit. If I go over what I've accounted for, I log it, realize I may lose less than I hoped, and move on.

How do you calculate a weekly deficit?

I believe she uses TDEE method.

So if say her TDEE - % comes out to 1500. That means she has 10500 calories to balance across the week however she pleases.

iona_ellen wrote: »

Hi,
What does everyone do if they have one of those days where they go well over the calorie amount?
Example - more excercise next day?
Eat less next day? That type of thing....thanks

Log it and move on. That's it.

annette_15 wrote: »

betuel75 wrote: »

most people dont care. I on the other hand cannot do nothing about a 6-8k calorie binge. Two pounds of fat will show. The next two days i eat about 500 calories, mainly protein. Take advantage of the energy and hit the weights hard and do many many hours of cardio(mountain bike rides) and any other kind of activity i can think of to have big burn days to fix the screw up quickly. Oh i make sure i dont forget to take my multi vitamin

Please take care of yourself. What you're doing is not good for your body or your mind.

These are my sentiments exactly.

@SLLRunner am i here or not lol

annette_15 wrote: »

betuel75 wrote: »

most people dont care. I on the other hand cannot do nothing about a 6-8k calorie binge. Two pounds of fat will show. The next two days i eat about 500 calories, mainly protein. Take advantage of the energy and hit the weights hard and do many many hours of cardio(mountain bike rides) and any other kind of activity i can think of to have big burn days to fix the screw up quickly. Oh i make sure i dont forget to take my multi vitamin

Please take care of yourself. What you're doing is not good for your body or your mind.

um, i take care of myself. This method is just fine. I take two days at very low cal then back up to normal deficit. Im just fine. Been doing this for years, no health issues. No mental issues. Feel just fine. Thanks for worrying.

I had one of those yesterday-just forget about it, and start anew the next day. It's life, it's going to happen!

DoogCampbell wrote: »

Not wanting to give you excuses for doing it often but your body generally ignores single 'spikes'. Its what you do over time that counts. If you didn't eat for one day do you expect that weight to fall off you? Likewise even on a massive binge, there is only so much of that energy that your body can process and store as fat or glycogen so a bunch will get passed by. Don't worry about the spikes as long as they are not becoming a trend.

Quite sure it's not how it works... Quite sure energy doesn't 'get passed by'.

But I look at the weekly average too. If I eat too much one day, I just try to be more careful the next few days. Heck even if I eat 1200 calories over my maintenance (that's 3600 calories in a day!), it just takes me 3 days of my 400 deficit to make up for it. Not the end of the world.