Is it ok to go over your calorie intake??

If you want to offset your lunch, you can... exercise.

I usually look at my weekly total. I don't sweat it if I go over for the day, but I try to make it up over the next couple of days, whether that be through smaller meals or more exercise. If you find yourself in this position frequently, you definitely need to add more exercise (to me, that's so much easier than cutting more calories!).

I would eat dinner, even if it means going over your calories for the day. You can always make it up over the next few days, like others have said. I personally would not want to risk getting too hungry tonight/tomorrow morning, resulting in a big overage binge.

You're not going to get arrested by the calorie police for going over.

So you go over today. It just means your weekly deficit is smaller than expected and you may lose less than anticipated. But you'll still lose - Science tells us so.

As long as you don't make a habit of it, it's fine. The odd day of being over calories is really a drop in the bucket, to be honest.

Or eat dinner, and don't cut back on any other days (I don't like "punishing" myself like that). Even if you ate at maintenance today, you would delay reaching your final goal by a day.

In the grand scheme of things, a significant amount of weight isn't gained or lost because of a single day, but by the accumulation of hundreds of days. Patterns of overeating are bad and will derail weight loss. A few isolated days of overeating won't. The whole population doesn't become obese because of Thanksgiving, even if almost everyone eats well above maintenance that day.

So is this an isolated day, or one point of a pattern? It's impossible for us to know that - we lack any other data points. If it is a pattern, we can talk about ways to break out of that pattern. If it's an isolated day, there's no problem, just get back on track tomorrow.

It's up to you. You can overeat or stick to the goal. Either way is fine. Personally, I'd have my dinner, as I'd have learned my lesson when I saw the 64.

Overeating is going to happen for the rest of your life, so it's good to put some thought into how you want to deal with it. Right now, you can ignore it and just keep losing. But when we are done losing weight, we have three choices:

1. Never, ever overeat.
2. Overeat, ignore it, gain weight.
3. Overeat, then cut back or work out more to undo any weight gain.

One day won't generally make a big difference, but overeating...it's something we should get used to dealing with while we lose. IMO.

you're not going to gain anything with 300 extra cals. 1 pound = 3500 .. seriously NOT THAT BIG OF A DEAL

Go4Me2 wrote: »

I had a big lunch and I only have like 64 calories left for tonight. I'm not hungry right now but may be later on and I really don't want to go over but....

You can just go over your limit for the day and make sure to burn it off. When I'm losing weight I typically go to my calorie limit or just right under it, and make sure to burn around 200 calories on the treadmill. This way I'm eating enough not to kick my body into starvation mode but I'm still under my limit.