Intake on rest days?
jessicaroman0517
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Do the majority of you eat the same or less on rest days? Any reason why?
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I tend to eat the same on my days off due to the fact that it’s my recovery day lol I feel better with a full stomach heheh0
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I follow MFP's numbers so I eat to my goal on rest days and add more when I exercise. Sometimes I spread the extra calories throughout the week as I prefer to follow a weekly average.4
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It depends. If I’ve had a few really strenuous days on than my body needs a little more food to aid recovery. I gage this by how hungry I am and how sore I am. If my workout the day before rest was more mild and I’m not really sore or extra hungry I won’t. I track my calories by week and they tend to average out when I listen to my body these days.1
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I calorie cycle and eat less on rest days so I can save those calories when I need them.4
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I eat a little less just so I can stay under my calorie goal. Even on rest days I take walks at work on my break so I'm still burning a bit of calories, but I normally don't eat those back.0
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Depends on how I'm logging/tracking. I burn less on rest days, so sometimes I'll eat less on a rest day, other times I'll just make sure the numbers balance out at the end of the week.1
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i eat more on my rest days to replenish glycogen in my muscles and recover; so that way i kick *kitten* the next workout day i have3
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I calorie cycle too and eat fewer calories on rest days. I like to save my calories for days when I am more active.0
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Well, I avoid rest days, but if I ate the same on rest days, I would end up wiping a day's deficit at least.1
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I usually eat close to maintenance on rest days. I find it easier to maintain an overall deficit that way.0
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When I was logging, I ended up dumping the MFP method and went with the TDEE method once my exercise was regular. With TDEE I ate roughly the same calories daily whether it was a rest day or a workout day which means there were days I was in a bigger deficit and days I was in a smaller one or none at all, but it all netted out throughout the week.2
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CICO means you should eat less unless the math has changed.3
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mulecanter wrote: »CICO means you should eat less unless the math has changed.
Or if you base your CI/CO balance on a timeframe longer than a day.5 -
Thanks for all the insightful answers!0
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Consistency in diet is very crucial. Even on a rest day you should eat the same n hit ur macros. Now if ur carb cycling. On a rest day. I wouldn't have high carbs. Again. If ur carb cycling. Save the high carb day for when u hit the gym again. Otherwise diet should always stay the same. Unless u plan on leaving the gym for a while and by a while being a couple weeks or more. Maybe I'd change my diet. But I don't think that's what ur reffering to.7
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pokemonkeyblade wrote: »Consistency in diet is very crucial. Even on a rest day you should eat the same n hit ur macros. Now if ur carb cycling. On a rest day. I wouldn't have high carbs. Again. If ur carb cycling. Save the high carb day for when u hit the gym again. Otherwise diet should always stay the same. Unless u plan on leaving the gym for a while and by a while being a couple weeks or more. Maybe I'd change my diet. But I don't think that's what ur reffering to.
Why is consistency important unless one is carbohydrate cycling?
What does it matter if I have 1,500 calories one day and 1,800 the next assuming that I'm getting what I need on average?2 -
pokemonkeyblade wrote: »Consistency in diet is very crucial. Even on a rest day you should eat the same n hit ur macros. Now if ur carb cycling. On a rest day. I wouldn't have high carbs. Again. If ur carb cycling. Save the high carb day for when u hit the gym again. Otherwise diet should always stay the same. Unless u plan on leaving the gym for a while and by a while being a couple weeks or more. Maybe I'd change my diet. But I don't think that's what ur reffering to.
The what now?!2 -
pokemonkeyblade wrote: »Consistency in diet is very crucial. Even on a rest day you should eat the same n hit ur macros. Now if ur carb cycling. On a rest day. I wouldn't have high carbs. Again. If ur carb cycling. Save the high carb day for when u hit the gym again. Otherwise diet should always stay the same. Unless u plan on leaving the gym for a while and by a while being a couple weeks or more. Maybe I'd change my diet. But I don't think that's what ur reffering to.
While consistency in their diet MAY help a particular person achieve their goals, it is NOT CRUCIAL for EVERYONE.2 -
pokemonkeyblade wrote: »Consistency in diet is very crucial. Even on a rest day you should eat the same n hit ur macros. Now if ur carb cycling. On a rest day. I wouldn't have high carbs. Again. If ur carb cycling. Save the high carb day for when u hit the gym again. Otherwise diet should always stay the same. Unless u plan on leaving the gym for a while and by a while being a couple weeks or more. Maybe I'd change my diet. But I don't think that's what ur reffering to.
Grammar and sentence structure are also important.
I feel like this post says... "keep your diet consistent unless you meet any of these next 50 criteria, in which case it's ok to change."4
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