Saving calories for later
Just wanted to get your opinion. I'm eating 1600 calories a day (I'm 5'8" and 173 pounds). I row (hard) two hours a week, take one spinning classes, and lift twice a week, serious heavy lifting. My plan is not to eat back my exercise calories (I've never tried this), figuring that a hard row might burn 500 calories, I take two days off, so on average that's about 1200 calories net per day.
My question is, yesterday I had 200 calories left over (ate 1400, rowed an hour). I don't want to give myself excuses to eat more, but I thinking I should bank that to eat later in the week. Both because training days I eat less (go figure, probably because I'm busy) and because I don't want to go below 1200 net since I'm so active.
Thoughts? Am I just giving myself an excuse to cheat?
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