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Borrowing calories from next day?

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  • nowine4me
    nowine4me Posts: 3,985 Member
    Bruja924 wrote: »
    Wynterbourne wrote: »
    I've been averaging my calories by the week instead of the day for a year now. I've lost 95lbs. Your body doesn't know it's the next day. It all averages out.

    I wish MFP calculated your cals by the week! Or at least rolled over your unused cals☺️

    I'm sure most know this, but after 4 years using MFP I just discovered that there is a weekly view when you click the nutrition tab. It shows you your average deficit/surplus for the week starting Sunday. Makes borrowing and lending a heck of a lot easier. Cheers!

  • nowine4me
    nowine4me Posts: 3,985 Member
    ^^ actually, you can pick which day of the week you want to start with, if for example, you prefer Mon-Sun.
  • shadowfax_c11
    shadowfax_c11 Posts: 1,942 Member
    depending on your weigh loss goal a couple of hundred calories is not really a big deal. My deficit is around 1000 calories and I am under goal most days. Granted I have a rather generous calorie goal due a high activity level, so this isn't so hard for me. But any rate being over a couple of hundred still leaves me in a deficit for the day so no biggie.
  • LivingtheLeanDream
    LivingtheLeanDream Posts: 13,342 Member
    Its called banking calories and I do it all the time :smile:
    Even at maintenance I eat at slight deficit during the week to allow for splurging at the weekends - it works perfectly :smile:
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    nowine4me wrote: »
    ^^ actually, you can pick which day of the week you want to start with, if for example, you prefer Mon-Sun.

    On the app, which I don't have any more, you used to be able to do a rolling 7 days so it wasn't a week by week but ongoing

    I don't know if they broke that but it was useful
  • srecupid
    srecupid Posts: 660 Member
    Sure I'm doing the opposite now. I'm trying to eat at a minor deficit all month because I'm going on vacation at end of month and having a Thanksgiving like day maybe worse one day.
  • songbird13291
    songbird13291 Posts: 120 Member
    Perfectly fine, as long as you create a weekly deficit.

    In fact, that's exactly how Weigh Watchers structures their program. You get a daily points allowance, and you also get a weekly points allowance. You don't have to use the weekly allowance at all. But if you choose to use it, youcan use the weekly allowance all at once -- say, at a party -- or you can use a few points each day.
  • jdhcm2006
    jdhcm2006 Posts: 2,254 Member
    I do it whenever something special is coming up and I don't want to worry about calories for that day. I'll exercise a little more and shave off a few calories from each day, so when the special day comes along that week, I've got about 1200-1800 calories to play with.

    Next Saturday, the fam and I are going to the state fair and I want to eat all of the foods. I'm going to make sure I work out each day that week and save 100-200 calories each day, that way when Saturday rolls around, I can have the donuts and corn dogs and french fries without guilt or worry.
  • PaulaWallaDingDong
    PaulaWallaDingDong Posts: 4,647 Member
    edited August 2016
    I do it all the time. Just try not to get yourself too far into a hole where you have 100 calories for an entire day. It can snowball like that if you let it.
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