How do you go by weekly calories instead of daily?

missfancy1980
missfancy1980 Posts: 326
edited November 12 in Health and Weight Loss
Sometimes I am up on my calories, and sometimes below. I'd like to know on average what my calories per week should be and if i can measure it that way instead? I exercise 5 - 6 times per week, burning between 200 - 700 calories each time. My goal is set to 1,300 calories per day currently, in order to lose weight.

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  • missfancy1980
    missfancy1980 Posts: 326
    Bump?
  • mmstgr
    mmstgr Posts: 578 Member
    you should really just do the math yourself
  • MasterZeddicus
    MasterZeddicus Posts: 35 Member
    Yeah it's not going to calculate it for you, the only thing you can do is multiply your daily intake that you're supposed to have by 7. Add the total amount of calories you would burn during the week from work outs. Then you can go from there. It's a lot less accurate that way though, and your body would benefit from a more steady intake of food.
  • missfancy1980
    missfancy1980 Posts: 326
    you should really just do the math yourself

    You should really not post unless you have something useful to say
  • missfancy1980
    missfancy1980 Posts: 326
    Yeah it's not going to calculate it for you, the only thing you can do is multiply your daily intake that you're supposed to have by 7. Add the total amount of calories you would burn during the week from work outs. Then you can go from there. It's a lot less accurate that way though, and your body would benefit from a more steady intake of food.

    Thanks
  • missfancy1980
    missfancy1980 Posts: 326
    I have seen people on here mention that they go by their weekly instead of daily totals... just wondering how exactly they go about it?
  • purpleipod
    purpleipod Posts: 1,147 Member
    I know on the app you can check your weekly calories but I'm not sure how to do it on the website. You can check nutrition over the last 7 days but it doesn't break it down the way the app does.
  • cmayfield3
    cmayfield3 Posts: 176 Member
    Yep, I go by weekly and I use the app to do it. It shows you your daily net calories and your average so far that week (M-Su week, you can't change it) as a bar graph. It also tells you how many weekly calories you have remaining. So if there are 3 days left in the week and you have 4500 calories remaining, that's 1500/day for the next three days. I wish there were an easier way to do it.
  • methodless
    methodless Posts: 62
    I just do the math myself
    I add my deficits and subtract my overages (which are starting to get smaller) and re-assess every Sunday or every Friday or whatever
  • Tisha247
    Tisha247 Posts: 849 Member
    Yes I check on my phone, I don't eat my exercise calories during the week-days so I can have treats or eat out or whatever on the week-end, it works for me.
  • imtriagain
    imtriagain Posts: 104 Member
    I use the iphone / ipad app, and that gives the weekly net, which I go by. It's odd that the web version doesn't do this. I would just do the average, perhaps keeping an excel spreadhseet, using the formula as someone suggested above.
  • missfancy1980
    missfancy1980 Posts: 326
    Ahh brilliant, thanks for the app suggestion, i just downloaded it :flowerforyou:
  • RunHardBeStrong
    RunHardBeStrong Posts: 33,069 Member
    I use the iphone / ipad app, and that gives the weekly net, which I go by. It's odd that the web version doesn't do this. I would just do the average, perhaps keeping an excel spreadhseet, using the formula as someone suggested above.

    ^ This is what I do as well now. Though I lost my first 50 before MFP. I just took my TDEE times 7 subtracted 20% and aimed for that goal at the end of the week with that method I did not eat back exercise cals and kept a hand written journal. I fluctuated 200-300 cals a day nothing drastic just as long as it averaged out at end of week.
  • EllieMo
    EllieMo Posts: 131 Member
    I log my food and exercise on MFP then transfer the details to a spreadsheet that I set up to monitor my weekly totals
  • banderson1107
    banderson1107 Posts: 7 Member
    I log my food and exercise on MFP then transfer the details to a spreadsheet that I set up to monitor my weekly totals

    This is what I do too, works great! I like to be able to see, at any given time, what my total deficit is for the week.
  • ElizabethRoad
    ElizabethRoad Posts: 5,138 Member
    1300 X 7 = 9100
  • missfancy1980
    missfancy1980 Posts: 326
    Oh gosh maybe this wasn't such a good idea haha! The app shows I've been over on my calories since the start :noway:
  • MasterZeddicus
    MasterZeddicus Posts: 35 Member
    That's why they don't do it, it's much harder to track, and you're going to wind up fluctuating your diet a lot on a day to day basis instead of your body getting used to a certain level of intake.

    If you really need to fluctuate, what I would do is save up your exercise calories and use those when you want to eat a nice treat or something.

    Cheers.
    Z
  • RunHardBeStrong
    RunHardBeStrong Posts: 33,069 Member
    Oh gosh maybe this wasn't such a good idea haha! The app shows I've been over on my calories since the start :noway:

    Oh what a bummer! Don't beat yourself up over it though. Take this info, tweak what you've been doing and go forward. Nothing you can do about the past just the future :) Good luck!
  • delilah47
    delilah47 Posts: 1,658
    I just came from the post "weighing food, seriously" to here. Now I understand.:huh: :huh:
  • ladykate7
    ladykate7 Posts: 206 Member
    That's why they don't do it, it's much harder to track, and you're going to wind up fluctuating your diet a lot on a day to day basis instead of your body getting used to a certain level of intake.

    If you really need to fluctuate, what I would do is save up your exercise calories and use those when you want to eat a nice treat or something.

    Cheers.
    Z

    Fluctuating daiily calories is actually a really good idea. Its a speific cycliing/ zig-zag technique that people use.
  • missfancy1980
    missfancy1980 Posts: 326
    I just came from the post "weighing food, seriously" to here. Now I understand.:huh: :huh:

    Now I understand that you prefer to trawl the forums for posts to pick on rather than share your knowledge and help people. Here's a tip ... don't like the post... don't comment, simple enough for you? PS your comment has been reported.
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