One high-calorie day doesn't wreck your progress. If your maintenance is 2,500 calories and you eat 3,000 one day, you can offset it with lower days the rest of the week. Weight loss depends on your total weekly balance, not what you ate yesterday.
The next time you go over in your calories and you're like, oh no, I ruined all my progress. Let me explain a calorie deficit to you in a way that's gonna make you calm the fuck down. There's 2 main things you should know. You have something called your maintenance calories. This is how many calories you need to maintain your weight. And then you have your deficit calories. This is how many calories you're gonna eat to lose weight. So let's say your maintenance calories are 2,500 and you're trying to eat 2,000 calories per day Here's where your mind is going to be blown. This 2,000 calories is not your only calorie deficit number because anything under 2,500 calories is technically still a calorie deficit. So if you go over calories and you had 2,300 calories one day, guess what? Not only did you not ruin all your progress, you're still in a calorie deficit. deficit. And here's what's going to blow your mind even more. Let's say one day you really ate good and you had 3,000 calories. Your calorie deficit isn't just based off of one day, it's based off of your overall weekly calories. So even if you ate 3,000 calories one day, as long as you just get right back to your calorie deficit the next day, you will actually still be in a weekly overall calorie deficit still allowing you to lose fat. So please stop freaking the fuck out when you go over your calories.
