mccindy72 wrote: » For weight loss, this can be a habit some find easy to get into. However, be cautious, because once you move into maintenance, it's much more difficult to maintain when you are yo-yoing calories up and down. you'll do better by learning to keep everything in a moderate level. Enjoy what you like and keep it at a constant, without binge levels or deficit levels.
Annie_01 wrote: » mccindy72 wrote: » For weight loss, this can be a habit some find easy to get into. However, be cautious, because once you move into maintenance, it's much more difficult to maintain when you are yo-yoing calories up and down. you'll do better by learning to keep everything in a moderate level. Enjoy what you like and keep it at a constant, without binge levels or deficit levels. Why would it be more difficult during maintenance? If I maintain on 1800...maybe one day I eat 1500...one day 1800...one day 2100...I still have averaged 1800 for those 3 days.
tibby531 wrote: » I do IIFYM and a weekly deficit. I get 2100 during the week, and 3750 during the weekend, so I can go out and be social and have fun (drink. I mean drink. )
tlflag1620 wrote: » Hmm... never really thought about "saving" underages for the weekend, but the premise makes sense. I tend to map out my whole day in the morning and if one of my meals is high cal, I eat less at the other two to make up for it. Like today - I'm having pasta and meatballs for dinner and my better half requested rice pudding for dessert (getting about half my days' calories in those two meals), so I ate my normal breakfast (which isn't very big to begin with) and a very small lunch and afternoon snack, to mitigate the large dinner and dessert. If it works on a meal-to-meal scale, I'm sure it would work over the course of a week. I just don't know if I have the patience to bother going back and tallying up the underages. The way I see it, if I eat less than what MFP suggested, I'll just lose weight faster. I can "make up" for weekend splurges by eating less at other meals that same day.
sheltrk wrote: » Kimberly_Harper wrote: » Way to throw a wrench in the whole way I think about this haha!! I had no idea you could bank calories...that doesn't even make sense to me. (that doesn't mean it's wrong) At what point does our body know when to gain weight from too many calories? One day doesn't matter then if we eat under enough days in a row to make up for it? I have been wondering about how does our body know when we ate under or over our calories and when does that register or kick in? Our bodies are constantly burning calories. There's nothing magical about accounting for calories on a daily basis v. a weekly basis. Weight gain and loss is a continuous process. Most people burn 1800-2200 calories per day just being alive and going about our day. Exercise burns even more calories. Because we need energy from food (calories) to live, our bodies are remarkably good at storing excess food calories as fuel. When you eat more calories than your body can use right away, your body will store that excess fuel--typically as some combination of glycogen, fat, and muscle. When you eat fewer calories than you burn over a period of time, your body will tap into it's storage tank of glycogen and fat (and muscle if need be). So, if you do decide to account for your calorie burn and consumption on a weekly basis (weekday excess deficit and weekend surplus) you *will* lose body mass during the week, and gain (some of) it back on the weekend. How much you gain and lose depends on how much energy debt you incur and replenish, just like when you account for your calories on a daily basis. It may be hard to measure, though, because of other, non-calorie-induced weight fluctuations (like water retention/dehydration).
Kimberly_Harper wrote: » Way to throw a wrench in the whole way I think about this haha!! I had no idea you could bank calories...that doesn't even make sense to me. (that doesn't mean it's wrong) At what point does our body know when to gain weight from too many calories? One day doesn't matter then if we eat under enough days in a row to make up for it? I have been wondering about how does our body know when we ate under or over our calories and when does that register or kick in?
