New Calorie Deficit Strategy 👀

31 May 2026 · 1 min

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In this short monologue, Eric Roberts critiques the practice of "calorie banking," where individuals severely restrict calories Monday through Thursday and then consume a surplus on Friday through Sunday. He argues that this pattern typically backfires, leading to weekend binge eating, a deteriorating relationship with food, and the temptation to stop tracking calories. Roberts emphasizes that maintaining a consistent weekly calorie deficit is essential and warns against the cyclical over‑restriction and bingeing that calorie banking promotes, describing it as contrary to his personal nutrition philosophy.

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What do I think about calorie banking, where you eat less calories Monday through Thursday and you have more calories Friday through Sunday? For most people, it will probably backfire. What happens is you restrict your calories so much Monday through Thursday, you want to go eat more calories Friday through Sunday. Because you have over-restricted so much, you then get to the weekend and you way overeat. There's a difference between eating 400, 500 extra calories per day and full fucking sending it and eating as much as you possibly can, which is quite frankly what most people do. They also use it as a mental excuse to not track their calories. You still need to be in a weekly calorie deficit. Number 2, it causes an unhealthy relationship with food because I'm gonna over-restrict and then I'm gonna binge, and I'm gonna over-restrict and I'm gonna binge. And that's just not the way I personally like to approach nutrition.