Do calories really work on a 24 hour cycle?

tsweetla
tsweetla Posts: 6 Member
edited October 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
We track per day, but do calories really work on a 24 hour time cycle? Do you really start with a clean slate each morning? For example, Hypothetically (I'm not planning on doing this), if I binge out and eat the whole chocolate cake one day, consume 3600 calories, can I eat nothing for 2 days and it roughly works out over the total 3 day period? (3 days would be 3600 calories normally).

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  • shakybabe
    shakybabe Posts: 1,573 Member
    I'm not sure? do they carry on from day before? we count 1200 from when we wake up.. mainly cos we usually fasted overnight.

    I guess they may work out at some point but dunno about eating 3600 one day then starving for the next two!
  • Halothane
    Halothane Posts: 69 Member
    No, your body is a 24/7/365 machine.
  • ElizabethRoad
    ElizabethRoad Posts: 5,138 Member
    No, it's just the easiest way to track it.

    Eating an entire chocolate cake as your entire nutrition for 3 days is not a great idea for your health... But if you ate 3600 calories of nutritious food and then fasted for 2 days... well I wouldn't do it but it wouldn't make you fat.
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