Does the "Zig Zag 7 Day Calorie Cycle" really work?

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  • Tara4boys
    Tara4boys Posts: 515 Member
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    I listed to one of Jillian Michael's podcasts. She said she beleives in zigzagging but essentially simplified the zig zagging into a spike day. She tells her clients to eat 1200 6 days per seek and then 2000 one day.
  • cearobin
    cearobin Posts: 5 Member
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  • nermal6873
    nermal6873 Posts: 344 Member
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    Hmmm. I may have to give this a try if I stay stuck for another week.
  • RockChick1984
    RockChick1984 Posts: 239
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    I used that exact site a couple weeks ago to do a zig zag week and was the most weight i have lost yet (apart from first week)... considering doing it again this week as the results were so good
  • BeautyFromPain
    BeautyFromPain Posts: 4,952 Member
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  • getsveltEagain
    getsveltEagain Posts: 1,063 Member
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    Thanks for posting this. I just posted a similar topic, and was wondering if anyone had tried this. I think I might have to give it a shot for a week and see what happens... because I've been stuck for over a week now, and I'm frustrated.

    I would recommend trying it for three to four weeks if you really want to see if it works. One week of something doesn't let your body have the proper time to figure out how it will handle it :wink:
  • FireMama_24
    FireMama_24 Posts: 169 Member
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  • 2hungariangirls
    2hungariangirls Posts: 220
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    To read later
  • coachredhead
    coachredhead Posts: 26 Member
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  • MaggieWatson
    MaggieWatson Posts: 57
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  • ElizabethRoad
    ElizabethRoad Posts: 5,138 Member
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    In principle it's great, but I don't see how anyone could follow something this regimented. It's much easier to me to follow my circumstance - eat more if there's a party or I go to a restaurant, and eat less on other days, making sure it averages out to my weekly goal.

    For those who say it gives you more calories than MFP, I used sedentary and it gave me a bit less than MFP. If you put in that you will exercise 3 times a week, it's not going to be too accurate because it has no idea how much you're going to burn. I would do sedentary and use that as a net calorie goal.

    Oh and yes, it works, that's how I've always done it and I've lost steadily.
  • Kattaway
    Kattaway Posts: 61
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    Okay, I have over 100lbs to lose and MFP allots me 1650 calories a day, zigzag is telling me 2546 a day, that's like 800 more calories a day?? And 2518 for maintenance? How is that even possible to lose weight when only eating 50 calories less to maintain???

    It comes out like this:

    Monday 2518 2456 2456
    Tuesday 2456 2456 2456
    Wednesday 3022 2948 2948
    Thursday 2518 2456 2456
    Friday 2456 2456 2456
    Saturday 2770 2702 2702
    Sunday 2518 2456 2456
  • 2hungariangirls
    2hungariangirls Posts: 220
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    Okay, I have over 100lbs to lose and MFP allots me 1650 calories a day, zigzag is telling me 2546 a day, that's like 800 more calories a day?? And 2518 for maintenance? How is that even possible to lose weight when only eating 50 calories less to maintain???

    It comes out like this:

    Monday 2518 2456 2456
    Tuesday 2456 2456 2456
    Wednesday 3022 2948 2948
    Thursday 2518 2456 2456
    Friday 2456 2456 2456
    Saturday 2770 2702 2702
    Sunday 2518 2456 2456

    What did you put in for exercise? Remember that MFP already figures in the deficit when you enter your exercise. 1650 is what MFP says, but if you exercise and burn 400 calories that day then MFP changes for you. That day MFP says to eat 2050.

    The other site doesn't have the deficit figured in it. So it is pretty close to what you should be eating if you are exercising.
  • ClascyParra
    ClascyParra Posts: 85
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    thanks for the post....
    going to bump to save the site
  • sondra216379
    sondra216379 Posts: 174 Member
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    Wow, I don't know if I could eat that many calories!! It's telling me 1790 and then up to 2100, thats way more than i have been eating!
  • Wisemomoffour
    Wisemomoffour Posts: 125 Member
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    I listed to one of Jillian Michael's podcasts. She said she beleives in zigzagging but essentially simplified the zig zagging into a spike day. She tells her clients to eat 1200 6 days per seek and then 2000 one day.

    That makes it way easier! May have to try this!
  • AmyM713
    AmyM713 Posts: 594 Member
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    Ok so theres maintenance (keeping you at same weight), fat loss (losing weight), and extreme fat loss (higher weight loss faster) is that correct?

    So for a person like me that has only 10lbs to lose I would go with the middle column?
  • MaryEffingPoppins
    MaryEffingPoppins Posts: 371 Member
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    IDK if I could eat that many calories. It's telling me a whole bunch
  • SammyKatt
    SammyKatt Posts: 364 Member
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    I was doing this last year and loved it! totally forgot about it!

    How would you keep track of that on here tho? Just set your cal limit for the higher numbers?
  • yorkies2
    yorkies2 Posts: 52
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    It says for me to eat 1396, I can't even make it to 1200 a day that MFP wants me to eat.

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