If you’re someone who’s prone to the more social scene on weekends which leaves your calories blown out from here to the moon and back ruining your week of hard work. Starting to look at your calories on a weekly basis may help you.
Now the more aggressive you are with this the faster the result, the more you allow for socialising well the slower it will become.
If your daily maintenance calories are for example 2000, then minus 30% of that and eat that Monday to Friday (1400cals). For Saturday and Sunday still track everything but only eat 2000 calories (your maintenance). You will still make good progress on this week to week while not going backwards. If you need your weekend calories to be higher you could even go into a slight calorie surplus (10% max) Just for those 2 days. While this will slow results, you will still make progress forwards and not be going backwards.
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