Banking Calories

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  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    If you stop and think about it, "normal" people aren't eating exactly the same calorie every single day...most people eat a range just naturally.
  • Teamcampo
    Teamcampo Posts: 25 Member
    I know this is a really old post, but I love this idea of banking calories. Can someone explain to me how they created that separate category to track it?
  • RoxieDawn
    RoxieDawn Posts: 15,488 Member
    edited February 2016
    Teamcampo wrote: »
    I know this is a really old post, but I love this idea of banking calories. Can someone explain to me how they created that separate category to track it?

    There is no separate category and for tracking that... You just eat less during the week so you can have an indulgent on the weekend or what not and stay in your MFP deficit. This is a personal choice and there is no tracking it other than your self.

    This is an old post.. maybe you want to create your own thread and others fr

    om MFP community will respond to the new post. I just stumbled over this and then noticed the dates on it.

    here I did a search in mfp and found these.. a little newer threads..

    http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10326597/banking-calories

    http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10325887/banking-calories
  • Dreysander
    Dreysander Posts: 294 Member
    Right now this is how I'm attempting to live but I'm still trying to tweak it to get it right. I "bank" calories all week in order to have an over day on Friday or Saturday. It works but I'm still losing weight so I need to figure out how to do this AND keep a stable weight range.
  • neldabg
    neldabg Posts: 1,452 Member
    I'm so happy to read this thread. There are so much great tips to use in teaching myself how to maintain and control my weight until the day I die. ^^
  • BurnWithBarn2015
    BurnWithBarn2015 Posts: 1,026 Member
    What i did when i banked my calories is making a sepearte exercise and added those calories daily

    So example
    Monday normally i ate should eat 1500 but i ate 1400 so 100 over
    I added excercise 100 calories for Friday ( the day i want to use them)

    Tuesday i ate 1500 no adding
    Wednesday i at 1100 so 400 to Friday again makes Fridays total 500 plus/banked

    etc etc

    I still do this
    I see my weekly total as 14000 calories ( around there somewere)
    I do TDEE so this is including my exercise

    Now that would be 2000 calories a day. But sometimes i eat 1500 other days i eat 2500 as long as i end up aroun d that 14000 total a week. :)

    Hope that helps

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  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,544 Member
    I think no one has mentioned this on this thread (I skimmed ;) ): The phone app (at least Android) will show you calories by week under "Nutrition". You can tweak when it starts/ends the week by navigating (in "one day" mode) to the day you want to have as the last day of your week, then switch to the weekly display.

    Not a substitute for the daily banking entries in one's diary, but if you just need an occasional spot check, it works.
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