Is there a functional difference between eating 2000 calories a day vs eating say 3500 calories one day and 500 the next? Aside from pain from overeating one day and hunger the next, of course
Is there a functional difference between eating 2000 calories a day vs eating say 3500 calories one day and 500 the...
Ryder Edwards
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Mason Kelly
bump cause i also wanna know
Asher Jackson
In terms of weight gain? No.
Nathan Anderson
Some people would perceive themselves as having more energy on the 3500 calorie day for example (and so this could be used as a training day), and perhaps going as low as 500 cals a day might decrease performance since it's so damn low, there is IN GENERAL not a difference.
A more practical example is people who eat like 2500 on non training days, and 3500 on training days compared to 3000 all the time. That typically will not make a difference.
It's more useful to think about total caloric intake on a weekly basis rather than daily.
Jayden White
If your cutting the latter is the strategy called caloric cycing or refeed where you are cutting calories for majority of the week, but having one at a surplus prevents your body from adapting to new lower baseline of caloric needs. Manipulation of hormone secretion
Anthony Cook
Does it work or is it just a meme?
Ryder Sanchez
*blocks your path*
Zachary Myers
Mission accomplished
Brayden Bennett
*dont have time to walk around him*
*just turn around and go home*
Logan Ramirez
Well.. Technically no it doesnt really do shit other than you'll feel different on those particular days. The body is amazing at adapting to different challenges and sure you can do this, only thing is would you have the willpower to only eat 500 cals the day after?
The answer to that for a lot of people is no..
but if you want to do it go ahead, unless you got some disease or whatever you should be good my dude.
Grayson Ramirez
*blocks your arteries*
pay for my healthcare
Brandon Foster
>3500
>overeating
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Jacob Harris
it's great for cutting
Isaiah Morales
On a cut? Of course it is.
Adam Howard
>structure collapses
Jeremiah Wood
Yes, its much easier to go into 'fat spillover' mode when you are taking in that many calories over maintenance on a single day.
Your insulin will spike dramatically and you will store more fat on that day.
Justin Hall
DARK SOULS
Ian Watson
How fat are you?
Mason Butler
short answer: no
long answer: yes, your body is not a perfect machine that performs 100% all the time. overeating and undereating affects how well your digestion works among other things. it's better to have a stable input of food than yoyo up and down.
Easton Lee
Not really, when I have really big binges of 5k kcal I usually psmf (800kcal) for a couple of days and my weight is back to normal easily.
The high calories day increase my energy so that psmfing isnt hard at all.
Logan Morales
*plays pokeflute*
Jordan Smith
But you burn more calories on training days
Landon Bell
Works very much actually. No meme, it's been studied by doctors and proven to be very beneficial during a cut. You can reach similar results with intermittent fasting though. Watch this for more in depth