Thinking long term (weekly instead of daily), just might help you have better perspective and give you some real evidence if you are sticking to your plan consistently. Maybe you aren’t seeing results because you’re getting too close to the tree’s and can’t see the forest. These people can still be in an overall deficit and lose weight when you look at the week as a whole. Or, they might have a cheat meal once a week. Some people naturally eat more food on the weekends than on the week days.As long as your deficit at some point adds up to 3500 calories, you’ll lose 1 lb. Some days your calories will be higher and some days it will be lower, depending on circumstances.Which might not have you in a deficit at all. This would add 300 calories per day over the weekdays, making your daily average 1500. That small splurge could have been 800 extra calories on Saturday, and 800 extra on Sunday. People sometimes argue that they can’t lose weight, when they ate 1200 calories all week, but then “had a small splurge on the weekend”.We don’t need to add drama around the daily fluctuations in caloric intake. Our bodies work exactly the way they are supposed to.So, it just makes sense that we are physiologically capable of storing and using calories whenever we consume them, even days apart. We are burning and digestion calories around the clock. Our calorie needs don’t necessarily ‘reset’ at midnight.There’s a few reasons why tracking weekly, to get a daily average, is helpful when you are losing weight. I found this actually quite helpful in my weight loss journey, as I was able to be a little more flexible to deal with unexpected meals or hunger. When I first started losing weight, I had an excel spreadsheet that would take my daily calories, add them together, and divide by 7 to give myself a daily AVERAGE, rather than my daily actual. If you are eating in a calorie deficit to lose weight, does it matter if you are in a daily deficit, or can you track weekly calories?
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