Spike day help!!

I saw a lot of you talking about spike days so I thought I would give it a try. Last Sunday I did not exercise and ate around 3,000 calories. I went to weigh in yesterday and I did not loose anything at all. What did I do wrong? Any thought on this are greatly appreciated.

You are right to NOT exercise on spike day. You need to take that day and rest. Your best day of exercise will be the day after the spike. Also, you usually pick up a couple of pounds the day after a spike and you will lose that along with more before the following weigh in (one week later). Hang in there and watch over the next few days and see what happens.

For one, how many calories do you normally eat? 3,000 may be way too much.

But even if it is too much, that's may not matter just yet. It may take more time for your body to react. This was just one week.

I saw a lot of you talking about spike days so I thought I would give it a try. Last Sunday I did not exercise and ate around 3,000 calories. I went to weigh in yesterday and I did not loose anything at all. What did I do wrong? Any thought on this are greatly appreciated.

You are right to NOT exercise on spike day. You need to take that day and rest. Your best day of exercise will be the day after the spike. Also, you usually pick up a couple of pounds the day after a spike and you will lose that along with more before the following weigh in (one week later). Hang in there and watch over the next few days and see what happens.

Sunday is my spike day and I take it as a day of rest as well. I only go over my daily by about 500 to 600 calories, so still under 2000. I have noticed that the next days work out is excellent and I feel strong. Usually the day before my spike day I struggle through my work out like I'm running out of fuel. I then drop a few pounds. Good luck and maybe try not so many calories.

It's not just as simple as eating an excess of food one day out of the week and losing weight.

^^THIS^^

Mine is about like this. I'm at a deficit when you total the week. For me it breaks down as follows: I eat just below bmr for 6 days a week. This is 1450 a day. Then on spike day I eat double my bmr, so about 2800 to 3000 calories. I eat higher protein and lower carb 6 days a week and spike day I eat whatever I want and eat higher carb. So far it works brilliantly.

This happened to me the first time I tried it. Had the same question, but you really should rest also. It will come off again if you're true to your original program

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Going to calculate my BMR again and try to figure this out. So basically eat slightly below BMR all week then double that number on the spike day?

spike was my fav character on buffy

THIS THIS THIS! That's why I came to this thread, I thought it was about a day of Spike. Imagine my sadness when it wasn't.

Wow, fantastic picture keeponkickin!!

agree, brilliant photo

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Going to calculate my BMR again and try to figure this out. So basically eat slightly below BMR all week then double that number on the spike day?

Have you read the book? Your low days should be BMR - 500. High days for exercise should be your BMR, and spikes x2 BMR. (make sure you can justify having the High days with enough exercise, and it should be weight training too)

But the above is a GUIDELINE. You do have to tot up what you have planned to eat cals wise, (based on the above)

maintenance = (BMR *1.2) *7. You need to be looking at 3500 less than the maintenance to get a loss.

If it works out at too small a deficit you need to tweak it. Just make sure your spike is at least 1.5x BMR and your low days are no less than 1200 net.

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Going to calculate my BMR again and try to figure this out. So basically eat slightly below BMR all week then double that number on the spike day?

Have you read the book? Your low days should be BMR - 500. High days for exercise should be your BMR, and spikes x2 BMR. (make sure you can justify having the High days with enough exercise, and it should be weight training too)

But the above is a GUIDELINE. You do have to tot up what you have planned to eat cals wise, (based on the above)

maintenance = (BMR *1.2) *7. You need to be looking at 3500 less than the maintenance to get a loss.

If it works out at too small a deficit you need to tweak it. Just make sure your spike is at least 1.5x BMR and your low days are no less than 1200 net.

I've got to read another book?? Lol.

This info should get me started, thanks!

Are spike days useful regardless of the amount of weight you have to lose?

My regular allowance is 1550/day, but on spike day (Sunday) I eat about double that (3100-3400), and lost 3 lbs since my last weigh-in the day after.

No idea how, but I definitely see it.