Is it dumb to offset calories the next day?

[cubicist]

@awoods88 It sounds like a way to lose extra muscle and upset your hormones.

 

[awoods88]

@cubicist I ended up eating 1200 the day after and until today just ate 2000 calories. Just continued where I left off tbh I couldn’t even attempt anything below 1500 way to hard for me anyway

 

[freedominlight]

@awoods88 As long as there is a survival stimulus to the muscle (you lifting weight till failure), the body will cling on to the muscle even though you are on a severe calorific deficit.

 

[andy316]

@awoods88 Not sure I'm reading this right. Are you saying your plan is to eat just 800 calories a day for the next 4 days?

 

[supercoolguy]

@awoods88

Wondering if I spent Tuesday through Friday eating 800 calories of pure low fat protein meat such as chicken breast and fish at the end of the day would be a good way to offset today.

This is a bad idea for a few reasons. Not having any carbs would mean your body would just end up using the protein as an energy source (what it normally uses carbs for) which would compound the low energy effects of the low calories. You'd probably not lose muscle on this short of a time span but it's still not a good idea in general.

Either go straight back to your diet or just go on a slightly lower surplus for a few days.

 

[joncrank]

@awoods88 I want to get to 8% / I ate 5000 calories and I don't regret it

....hmmmmmm

 

[vincerhane113]

@awoods88 I ate about the same amount of calories and just decided to do a 36 your fast.

 

[vincerhane113]

Do a 36 hour fast * to even out the calories