Zig Zagging?

Just keep the mfp goal at the highest calorie number and just make sure you're following a zig-zag pattern. It's just easier to do it in your head or make a food note for it then changing it everyday

you can change it everyday but then it would also change the goal from the days before

i started doing it while i was trying to figure out what worked best for my body, without realizing it was called "zig-zagging".

what you do is stay within your weekly calorie goal, but change your diet every 3 or 4 days. so for example, my daily calorie goal is 1200 (i'm short). for days 1-3 i'll eat around 1000 calories, and on day 4 i'll eat 2000 (1200 of my daily goal plus 600 aka 200 from each day of the calories i didn't eat on days 1-3). this way you are still keeping to your weekly goal, just spreading the calories out differently. i like it because every 3 or 4 days i feel like i have a "cheat day" because i feel like i have more calories to play around with and i have room to eat some of my "bad foods" (like a slice of deep dish pizza) that i don't normally have room for. this staves off cravings, plus i'm usually so satisfied and full after my large calorie days it's easy for me to want to eat healthy the next day and keep my calories low. for me it also keeps my metabolism moving. when i was doing a steady 1200/day week i started to plateau.

anyways give it a shot! i love it.

i started doing it while i was trying to figure out what worked best for my body, without realizing it was called "zig-zagging".

what you do is stay within your weekly calorie goal, but change your diet every 3 or 4 days. so for example, my daily calorie goal is 1200 (i'm short). for days 1-3 i'll eat around 1000 calories, and on day 4 i'll eat 2000 (1200 of my daily goal plus 600 aka 200 from each day of the calories i didn't eat on days 1-3). this way you are still keeping to your weekly goal, just spreading the calories out differently. i like it because every 3 or 4 days i feel like i have a "cheat day" because i feel like i have more calories to play around with and i have room to eat some of my "bad foods" (like a slice of deep dish pizza) that i don't normally have room for. this staves off cravings, plus i'm usually so satisfied and full after my large calorie days it's easy for me to want to eat healthy the next day and keep my calories low. for me it also keeps my metabolism moving. when i was doing a steady 1200/day week i started to plateau.

anyways give it a shot! i love it.

FYI, even when zig zagging, you should NEVER go below 1200 calories/day. 1000 calories is not enough.

I have been as low as 800 calories on some of my low zig zag days, hasn't done me any harm and have lost 1.5 lbs per week pretty much consistently.

If you make sure that your weekly average is correct then do not worry about how low you may go on maybe one day a week.

I'm not advocating eating nothing but as long as you are eating 8,400 net calories per week you will be fine.

Eating 800 calories DOES do your body harm, even if you haven't seen it.. YET.
Eating anything less than 1200 calories will starve your body and will be detrimental to yourself. 800 calories is no where near enough - whether you are "making up" for it on other days makes no difference. It will negatively effect your health, and is NOT GOOD to do - EVER.

You could just set your goal to your lowest calorie day. Then add a custom cardio exercise that "burns" the difference.

This would be how I would handle it, then it would not interfere with the historical data.

Just keep the mfp goal at the highest calorie number and just make sure you're following a zig-zag pattern. It's just easier to do it in your head or make a food note for it then changing it everyday

I calorie cycle and this is what I do.