Intake fluctuation effect metabolism?

Stellamom2018
Stellamom2018 Posts: 120 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I am working with a trainer (who I will also ask this question to) but some days I am happy and full at 1700 and some days I'm at 2100 and feel like I'm starving to death. My daily goal right now is 2000. Will a swing of this much, say 400 calories, day to day have a negative impact on my metabolism long term?

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  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,420 Member
    No.
  • mph323
    mph323 Posts: 3,565 Member
    edited September 2021
    cmriverside wrote: »
    No.

    Agree. My daily calories vary wildly depending on my activity and hunger levels. I look at my weekly averages, and the fluctuations have absolutely no impact on my weight management.

    edit - quoted the wrong person
  • callsitlikeiseeit
    callsitlikeiseeit Posts: 8,626 Member
    edited September 2021
    absolutely not.

    we all have days where we are more or less hungry, sometimes they can be attributed to a specific reason (such as working out), sometimes not.

    There are actually very few things you can do that will actually affect your metabolism significantly (and even then, i don't know that I could name any off the top of my head at the moment. maybe someone more knowledgeable can). being more or less hungry on any given day, is not one of them.

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