Saving calories

Hey everyone, can someone explain to me how saving calories for a "special" or big meal works??

For example, if I worked out yesterday and had a deficit of 1000 calories and I am already fit or my body cannot lose any more weight. And today, let's say I went over 1000 calories because of binging or because of a party, etc. Won't I still gain weight from the extra calories today since, I'm assuming, the body doesn't remember that it "needed" 1000 more calories to survive the day before because after all, yesterday has passed already.

Is this too confusing??

I get what you're saying and would also like to know the answer!

I don't know too much about daily intake and how it would respond the day after. But if it were me, I wouldn't focus on what your deficit was because of working out or how much over you are because of partying, in the end try to make your total calorie count what your healthy daily amount should be. If I knew I was going to a party, I would be sure to burn extra calories that morning even if I was below my amount the day before. I would try to burn the same amount or closest to the amount I was anticipating on intaking. But I wouldn't not eat because of it either. So I guess what I am trying to say is, go day-by-day in my opinion. It is just easier to keep track.

I think 1000 cals are too much! I save 100 cals two days a week, or max 3 days, for a special occasion. That makes tops 300 cals to invest in partying, for example, and that makes like 3 glasses of beer......

It works for me. But I don't think you should over do it.

Note that I was only using the 1000 deficit as an EXAMPLE, but I merely want to know what goes on in our body in situations like this.

It seems like saving calories is a waste or the evidence that supports it is lacking.

I save calories, but not the day beforehand.

|'ll cut back during the day to eat something later that same day, and "save" my calories.

In my opinion, I think you'd gain if you tried to save calories for the next day instead of something in the same day. `Cos I think your matabolisum would adjust on the calories you cut back on. But if you ate back your calories in the same day you cut back, I don't think you'd gain. But you would if you ate double the next day..

Sorry, I sound confusing too, but I hope you know what I mean. >_<

Yeah, I understand what you are saying aio.

Maybe...you can't really save calories days before hand and you have to just exercise AFTER that extra calorie meal.

That's what I do, & I know it helps to exercise after eating something more junky then usual, or in excess.. `Cos your body is using the food as energy, instead of storing it as fat. =]

First time poster here... if I know I'm going to have a hog fest later that day, I'll eat very lightly several times before the event. My usual meal bar for breakfast (seems to work for me) and then maybe a small sam'mich a few hours later... then I pretty much have the rest of my daily calories for me to use as I see fit. On that day I may not have a deficit but I will try not to go over the amount I burn, that way I don't gain weight, I just won't lose any. That's the best advice I can offer.

For the most part it'll average out. Theoretically (and this is a slight oversimplification) you would have lost just over a quarter of a pound one day, and gained just over a quarter of a pound the next day, and it would wash. So yes, you'd gain weight, but it would be weight that you lost the day before, and the net is zero.

You don't stop losing weight just because you're "already fit." If you eat less than you burn, you will lose weight, even if you're not overweight when you do it.

I personally can't handle saving calories from day to day - the idea of a calorie overage on any given day is too stressful even if it was compensated for beforehand - so I'd only do it within one day. For instance, I'm going over to see my dad tomorrow, and I'll probably end up eating something over there. So I'll eat less at work earlierin the day, so my daily total is the same as it would be otherwise.

Hey jainasolo, thanks for hte reply.

I assumed a person can stop losing weight because of plateaus or that the body would eventually stop losing weight wouldn't it?

This actually leads me to another question: if you are in a plateau, does that mean that all your exercising and dieting is a waste during that period??

Yeah, |'m wondering this too.

Exercise is never a waste, because it's good for you whether you're losing or not. But it does seem pointless that your body will eventually platua and maintain on 1,200 or whatever your diertary intake is. :o(

*bump* since other people are hoping for an answer as well to my 2nd question:



"
This actually leads me to another question: if you are in a plateau, does that mean that all your exercising and dieting is a waste during that period??
"

1. someone mentioned your metabolism adjusting - this takes a long time. It doesn't just adapt to a 1000 calorie deficit in 1 day.
2. Gaining and losing weight is all a matter of inputs and out puts. You expended 1000 calories, and now you are refilling that empty tank, and putting in 1000 calories.

3500 calories = 1 lbs
Yesterday you were = -1000
Today you are = +1000
SUM = 0

If tomorrow = +350 cals
Then you've gained 1/10th of a lbs.

I think that from Monday to Tuesday, this sort of thing works. You will maintain. If you saved Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and then binged like a mad man on Sunday, I think your metabolism would've dropped a little bit.

Also, because you're creating the deficit by increasing your work out time, you're actually boosting your metabolism....

Those are my thoughts anyway.

Original Post by aio:

That's what I do, & I know it helps to exercise after eating something more junky then usual, or in excess.. `Cos your body is using the food as energy, instead of storing it as fat. =]

 That's not really true- it's hard for your body to break down proteins and fats through exercise if you've consumed them in the several hours before you work out. You should exercise BEFORE eating these foods, and eat carbs before you work out (about 200 cal).

i prefer to do it the other way, i will say hey theres a party tonight and go over by the 500 or so calories, then the next few days i will deliberately east under by a few hundred cals to make up for it. Ive been doing this for months, and ive actually lost some weight so it works for me.