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Do excess calories roll over to the next day?

There’s a few things I need to find answers to, I just haven’t had the time to research them online.  They include:

Do excess calories roll over to the next day?

Now that I’m actually paying attention to my calorie consumption and expenditure, I wonder if unused calories “roll over” to the next day or if you have just that 24-hour period to use them up before they’re stored as fat.  Let’s say I burn 2,500 calories on Wednesday.  But on Wednesday, I ate 2,800 calories.  That’s 300 extra calories.  Does my body store that as fat right away?  What if on Tuesday I had a deficit of 300 calories (I ate 2,000 yet burned 2,300), does it cancel out whatever I may have accomplished on Tuesday?  And say on Thursday, when I start tallying my calories, should I include the extra 300 from Wednesday in my count for Thursday, so I’d wake up Thursday morning with 300 calories already… I have no idea how this works.  Maybe I’m going about it wrong and should go by weekly calories instead of daily… I don’t know.

There’s a lot of research that needs to be done.

How much protein do I need a day?

I did a little bit of research on this, but different sites are giving me drastically different answers.

Are all calories created equal?

A calorie is a calorie is a calorie… or is it?  Does it matter where my calories come from as long as I burn them off or create a deficit?  I hear all this stuff about 30 - 40 - 30 or 20 - 80 and other diet guidelines.  What’s right??

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5 Responses to “Do excess calories roll over to the next day?”

  1. Health | acne care Says:
    November 3rd, 2009 at 8:25 pm

    i always make sure that i dont consume too much Calories in my diet. a high calorie diet is bad for the heart so i always avoid high carb and high sugar diet.

  2. Pretty Girls Gallery Says:
    January 3rd, 2010 at 2:51 am

    I always monitor my Calories when i eat. I make sure that i dont eat foods that are very high in carbohydrates or foods with very high calories.

  3. arthritisremedy Says:
    January 11th, 2010 at 8:35 am

    I am very conscious about my Calorie intake when eating. I usually restrict my Calorie intake so as not to gain weight and also i am into a low carb, low fat diet.

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  5. Trenton Roseland Says:
    May 1st, 2010 at 11:33 am

    i always monitor my calorie intake from my diet because i have a very slow metabolism and i dont want to get overweight.’.:

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