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« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2012, 05:05:15 PM » |
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It depends on what you're (or our hypothetical person mentioned) shooting for. Long term, here is what would happen.
1. Eating 2500 calories per day, still having the cheat meal on day 7, would eventually cause a stabilization. As your body-weight increases, so do it's metabolic needs, meaning 2500 calories would eventually be a small deficit. If you eat 10,500 (3lbs of calories) per cheat, your bodyweight will eventually stabilize, though perhaps significantly higher.
2. If you want to maintain the same weight that 2,500 calories per day would create, you would have to cut at a rate of 10,500 calories over 6 days (1lb every 2 days) which is far too quickly and relatively unhealthy. The best circumstance would of course be to reduce the surplus on the 7th day.
3. Another option (pertaining to my last bit of advice in option 2) would be to decrease your 6 daily calorie amount to 2,300, providing a 1,200 calorie buffer for your 7th day. That way, you could eat 3,700 calories on your cheat day and still have a weekly balance of 0 calories.
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