Had a bit of a slip up last night, not my regular binge but did eat more calories than I was meant too... I had a tuna pasta bake for tea with bread & butter, two aero chocolate mousses and a cream cake. Not sure how many calories it came too but it's done with now and I felt like crap for it so no more of that..
I was listening to a jillian michaels podcast, in which she's talking about the benefits of low & high calorie days, and this is what she says..
"Your weekly calorie allowance is set. So lets say for example, you eat 1400 calories a day. So if you're eating 1400 calories a day, you're weekly calorie allowance is 9800. And what that means is that that's your target for the week, how you hit that is up to you... The idea behind this, is when you dramatically reduce your calorie intake, your body goes into a state of famine, and thinks oh my gosh food is scarce, lets slow down our metabolism. Now the high calorie day, that allows you to trick your metabolism, so your body never adjusts and slows your metabolism down. You just gotta make sure you don't exceed your weekly calorie allowance. I kinda perfected it on the biggest loser, so I would keep them low all week long, and then give them one high calorie day."
So I'm considering adapting that method. I've been wearing a fitbit for two days, and it's telling me I burn 2500 calories a day without exercise. And that's the same number that TDEE calculators give too.. so I'm believing that it must be accurate. So if I create a deficit of 1000 calories a day to lose two pounds a week, I can eat 1500 a day..
Over the course of a week that's 10,500 calories. Seen as I'm big on my treats and by a treat I mean something like an entire tub of Ben & Jerry's and not a measley small chocolate bar, I'm gonna stay low all week & have one high calorie day. I won't go crazy on my high calorie day, if anything I'll probably eat good all day but have a nice healthy meal & a tub of ice cream or big chocolate bar.. I'm guessing my calories will change week to week depending on social occasions, like if my OH wanted to go out for food then we'd do that on my high calorie day, and say that day totalled 3000 calories, well I'd just stay to 1250 calories the rest of the week to make sure I stay within my weekly calorie goal.
& seen as last night was a slip up, I'll enter the calories into MFP as best I can, which gives me an estimate of 2215 calories.. I think it's probably a bit higher than that but I can't remember if I ate anything else. So I'll call it 2500 just incase..
So based on that, 10500 minus 2500 means I've got 8000 calories left for the rest of the week, but it's Thursday and I've already stuck to plan Monday & Tuesday, so I've got 1350 calories a day for today and the remainder of the week
Weigh in is Monday, and now I'm off to do 30 day shred & sweat some moodiness away! (having a shoddy day).
