I'm hoping the same works for me! I had an incredible, low-calorie week, but it's midterms now and I've pulled two near all-nighters since Tuesday and needed sustinence and coffee to keep me going. Thus, I have had quite a few 22 hour days in a row and so have gotten a little out of whack as regards where days end and where calorie counts cross over into the next day. I'm heading home for Spring Break today, though, and will be able to get back to normal counting and sleeping practices.
That's the beauty of cycling! You may weigh more the day immediately following a binge (due to additional sodium/water retention), but you have the ability to balance it out by limiting calories accordingly.
I'm not doing well this week...I got a job offer last night that totally put me on cloud 9, and of course, with excitement come celebration, and with celebration comes food I need to learn to find better ways to celebrate...
We went to TGI Friday's last night. It has literally been months and months since I've ordered a restaurant meal and not finished at least 95% of it at the restaurant. Last night, we spilt an appetizer (chicken pot stickers--a good choice), and then I got a meal of chicken breast (in JD sauce--YUM!), mashed potatoes, and broccoli. I ate all of the broccoli first as my way of making sure I would eat it at all Then I ate 1 of the pieces of chicken and a few bites of potatoes, and, lo and behold, I brought the other piece of chickenand the rest of the potatoes home! They are still sitting in the fridge, so now I have dinner for tonight as well.
I know it may seem trivial to a lot of people, but this feels like such a major accomplishment to me, so I had to share it
Jill-great job on dinner last night...Getting the broccoli down first was a good idea...Wow and leftovers for today...I love TGI and havn't ate there in a while also...I wonder how many calories are in the JD sauce...That stuff is sooo good.
I had a deficit yesterday of 800...I joined a gym this week and that can really help burn them calories...yesterady I had B-oatmeal w/ peaches..L-tuna steak & sweet peas S- apple D-protein shake and bar...
The nights that I go to the gym i haven't been eating dinner...I eat a protein bar(200 calories) before my workout and after I drink a shake called muscle milk(350 calories)so with that many extra calories I skip dinner but also I'm not really hungry either...I hate having that many calories in just the shake but they say I helps repair your muscles after weight lifting...I'll have to wait and see how it affects my weight loss...
dg--it makes sense that you're not usually hungry for dinner after working out. For most, exercise is a natural appetite suppressant. When I was home one summer from college, I would exercise when I felt really hungry in order to make sure I didn't eat too much, and it really worked. Unfortunately, I no longer have time to just sit around, watch tv, eat, and exercise at my heart's desire I did belong to a gym, but my membership ran out in Januray, and since I didn't really like going, I didn't renew. I need to get back into some sort f exercise routine, though, even if it's just walking or doing some DVDs or something at home.
That's the beauty of cycling! You may weigh more the day immediately following a binge (due to additional sodium/water retention), but you have the ability to balance it out by limiting calories accordingly.
Yes, but you still have to be careful. Remember that 3500 calories equals a pound of fat. Whether you eat the whole 3500 in one day or go over your maintenance calories over the course of a FEW days (that adds up to 3500), you'll still gain weight.
Be careful when cycling calories. It's too easy to let yourself fall into the mindset of binges. Like if you eat out or someone at home orders a pizza, it's too easy to say, "I'll go ahead and have a ball with this and tomorrow I can just eat fewer calories than normal." And that kind of thinking can send one out of control and get one into some trouble. Not to mention it's not good for your body to eat a ton one day and then severely restrict the next.
It can happen to anyone. I've come close to it myself. I had to put a stop to my "fun fun" flings with food. I had to stop with the "oh well, tomorrow I'll just eat less" excuse.
There's nothing wrong with upping your calories a couple of days a week, that's the whole point of cycling. I'm just saying, to anyone who does this, to be careful. Some people can do this with no problems and with others it's like waving a cigarette in front of someone who's trying to quit smoking. Things can get 'dangerous'.
However, just to add, the occasional high-calorie meal isn't going to ruin everything. I eat like a pig at Sunday dinner, every week. I always have. And I've lost 80 pounds doing it, lol.
Yes, but you still have to be careful. Remember that 3500 calories equals a pound of fat. Whether you eat the whole 3500 in one day or go over your maintenance calories over the course of a FEW days (that adds up to 3500), you'll still gain weight.
Right, but the whole point of cycling is to balance it out. If you go 3500 over then you go 3500 under (over time, obviousl--don't go completely foodless for day or two ). And it's really hard to eat 3500 calories MORE than what your body burns in a day (or even in 2 days, since most bodies are burning around 2000 calories a day for maintenance, assuming you're not completely sedentary).
Of course you'll gain weight if you eat too much. Cycling keeps those high days in check I still maintain that if your daily average for the week is where you want it to be, then it doesn't matter how high or low you go on any one day (within reason, of course--like I said, no negative-calorie days ).
Right, but the whole point of cycling is to balance it out.
I know
I'm just saying that some people can take it out of control if they let themselves get into a certain 'mindset', that's all. I've heard of people going out of control with it. So I'm just saying to those who want to try it to be careful. Because it's easy to LET it get out of control without you really realizing it's happening
Yeah, I could easily see myself letting myself go crazy - I plan my high calorie days before the day actually comes - I don't let mysefl get halfway through a day and say "well, I'll just make today a high calorie day". I've been tempted to, for sure, but then I just think "Saturday will be here soon enough" and it makes me feel stronger in my resolve to keep that day low-cal
Yeah, I always keep my high-cal days on the weekends since it's a lot easier for me to control my calories with a regulated weekday schedule. And if I accidentally have a high day during the week, then I cut back on my weekends a bit (like yesterday, I had less than 1800 calories whereas a typical Saturday would be around 2500, but I had more than usual on Thursday).
Well, the counts are in...for my week from Monday-Sunday, I had a daily average of only 1640 for last week, which is well below my goal of 1800--yay! Now, if I can keep it up this week, I should have a good loss come Thursday night's weigh-in at TOPS. I am only having about 1200 calories today, so so far, so good!
My average for the week is a shade under 1100. This is due to a couple of really low days from when I came home with work to do, and did it through dinner time. All of my exercise has been light this week, so I'm not too worried, but I'll step up the calories next week... want to be able to keep it up after reaching my goal, after all!
My body feels so different... like, not my own. I'm walking easier, my limp is less pronounced, I feel lighter when I climb up stairs, I can do PUSHUPS, I feel more graceful... I just feel DIFFERENT. I can't imagine how I'll feel in the end. I've gained a bit over the past couple of days, but I haven't let it bother me. I've lost a good chunk of weight fairly quickly, so a week of staying the same or even gaining a pound won't jeopardize my goal date.
I have my going-away lunch for work tomorrow, and then a trip to New York this weekend into next week... A lot of challenges ahead, and I'm ready to face them!
My average calories for last week was 1389..my goal is to be under 1400 so I did good...I also was down 1.5lbs last week...I think this zig zag is helping out alot...I've also been going to the gym for a week now and I figured I wouldn't loss anything this week due to lifting weights since muscle weighs more so I happy.
I need to learn to find better ways to celebrate...
Then I ate 1 of the pieces of chicken and a few bites of potatoes, and, lo and behold, I brought the other piece of chickenand the rest of the potatoes home! They are still sitting in the fridge, so now I have dinner for tonight as well.
I still maintain that if your daily average for the week is where you want it to be, then it doesn't matter how high or low you go on any one day (within reason, of course--like I said, no negative-calorie days 
).
