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Thank you, very informative!
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Thank you for your input!
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I'm also in a 500 calorie deficit daily
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@lynn_glenmont goal is to continue losing even if slighly little weight weekly enough to eventually have my abs show again... at the same time stay on a deficit 6 days a week while having the 7th day as a free treat day... staying under maintaince calories so I can keep slightly losing weight
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By the way, the last time i did cheat days, i was eating rougly 1500 calories a day and on the 7th day i ate about 6000 calories. Still continued to lose weight. But i only did it for a month. So 4 cheat days. I made this post because i intend to cut for a longer period and wanted to make sure the math is right before…
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@lynn_glenmont
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Alright, technically speaking..if i wanted to keep cutting. I woudnt just eat whatever is left of my maintaince calories because as someone else mentioned, thats no progress. So i could just have a slightly bigger treat day but stay under the weekly maintaince calories in order to keep cutting. Thats all i wanted to clarify
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@lynn_glenmont @NovusDies That makes sense. Thanks for the info.
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@NovusDies if i'm calculating it per week... 16,800 to maintain weekly, while i'm consuming 9,800 weekly... wouldnt I just have whatever left (16800 minus 9800) to spend on that 7th day and still be within maintaince ?
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@NovusDies i dont have to still be on a deficiet with the cheat day included. Just as long as i stay within maintaince calories... would that still just leave me 3500 to spend? Or did you mean 3500 plus the 1400 calories i would regulary eat?
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Also, my BMR is 1,600 calories a day
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I’m 5”5 and I eat 2200 calories a day to gain weight. I weigh 131. Try it out, if you don’t like the results, you can always lower the calories. You got this.
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Low-fat popcorn, 100 calories per bag!!
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Great, thank you! Also I do 5 days of weight lifting, so that’s more calories I’m burning that I cannot estimate or record
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I call it a cheat day because I’ve never consumed that many calories on one day. Plus I’ve been eating healthy foods for so long, and I plan to eat 3000 calories of not so healthy foods, that’s why it feels like a cheat to me
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Okay cool. Btw I’m no rush to lose weight, I’m just slowly cutting. Thank you
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80 calorie Dannon light & fit yogurt (so many flavors) with Nature Valley garnola, or any kind of garnola :)
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finally someone who understands me lol! I’ve been eating peanut butter every single day for the past year or so. I can literally eat it in every meal
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When I first started, I noticed after a month. Old clothes started fitting !:) Now I’m working on getting my abs to show and I’m on week 2... see some results but nothing too major yet
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McDonald's salad like someone above mentioned. With grilled chicken it's 350, with crispy it's 450. Dressing is 100 if you add it. A buddy of mine works there and he says it's pretty healthy compared to how they make other food
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2400 for maintenance.
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So far peanut butter haha
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Cool thank you!
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If you're considering going crazy for a cheat day, and it won't fit your calories... that's fine too. Like you said, start fresh the next day!
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I just eat the stuff you're calling "cheat" instead of what I eat in my day. If it fits in your calories, you'll be fine. What I do I just cut out something from my breakfast to eat that extra good stuff later on the day lol.
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Makes sense, thanks guys!
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Awesome thank you!
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Oh wait..
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Cereal and milk
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Coconut milk mocha macchiato.. 120 cals for a small. Pretty good drink, I like my drinks sweet and only one sweetener did the job!
