If calories don't have a clock, do they have a calendar?

Do you believe that using a weekly average for calorie totals and macro proportions is sufficient, or is it significantly more valuable to optimize each day individually?

I’m not talking about purposeful macro cycling, more just noncompliance. So for example, if I’m 50% under on calories on a Sunday because I was busy running errands all day, should I try to overshoot a little for the next couple of days in order to balance it out over a longer view, like a week?

Or should I just aim each day to be as close to target as possible, and any misses are just “Oh well, try harder tomorrow”?

Thanks!

I don’t think wide changes in calorie intake, e.g. > 20%, on a day to day basis works well for long term weight loss. Weight gain it works a little better, IMO.

I would default to the “be as close as possible and not beat yourself up about it”, unless you’re trying to gain weight!