Daily or Weekly Nutrition Targets — What’s Best for You

Not everyone needs daily targets

Changing body composition requires managing energy balance in line with your objectives over a sustained period. For most people, the timeframe required to achieve their goals is anywhere from six weeks to six months, depending on the total change required and what is an adhereable way to get there.

We need to break this objective into smaller segments that can be measured and optimised on a more frequent basis. For most people, daily and weekly targets are the most common ways to manage nutrition intake.

There are outliers such as athletes, who will manage nutrition in longer segments of 2–4 weeks that are typically aligned with their training blocks. However, for the general population client, a daily or weekly segment is the best place to start.

Most of my clients work towards weekly nutrition targets. However, the majority also started using daily targets before making the transition.

Today, I’m going to run through the benefits of each to help you determine where is the best place to begin.

Daily Targets

Daily nutrition targets are the simplest way to manage nutrition intake. A structure is developed and then repeated each day…