Today is Sunday. In planning the upcoming week, I have decided to give calorie cycling a real try. I am not happy with my current plateau, and I think both my mind and my body are getting a bit tired of eating just about the same things every day. I think it’ll be more fun to mix it up a bit.

Calorie Cycling was explained to me by Susan who writes a blog called Catapult Fitness.   I asked a question on a message board about how to do it properly and got this kind response from her:

So, as an example, if I have a client who is on a 11,200 calorie week plan, rather than have them consume 1600 calories/day, I may break it up as follows:

Monday: Strength training/HIIT –> 1900 calories
Tuesday: Passive rest day –> 1200 calories
Wednesday: Strength training/steady state cardio –> 1700 calories
Thursday: Active rest day –> 1400 calories
Friday: Strength training/HIIT –> 1800 calories
Saturday: Active rest day –> 1550 calories
Sunday: Active rest day –> 1650 calories

I’m trying to lose 2 pounds a week, so I need to be on a 9900 calorie-a-week plan since I’m burning around 16,900 calories a week when I work out according to schedule.  One pound = 3,500 calories.

So, here’ s my plan:

I think it will make things more interesting and hopefully it will get me past these frequent plateaus I’ve been having.

I was low on my calories today, but I didn’t get out of the house. I spent most of my time indoors doing web stuff and taxes. So I kept my calories low to be safe.