So I always have these ideas that pop into my head where I wonder what would be the best option.

Obviously missing your calories/macros one day won't kill you or anything like that, but just kind of throw out all that and lets say if you couldn't hit your calories, would it be better to miss on your workout day or rest day?

Example. Doing starting strength, lifting 3 days a week. A/rest/B/rest/A kind of deal.

If you could only hit your calories on three days a week, would it be more beneficial to hit it on your workout days or rest days?

Yes I know this is a silly question/idea, but I am genuinely curious which would lead to better results, or if it even matters.

You're going to be losing weight (just "hitting calories" 3 days a week) no matter what you do at that point... and every night your body likely goes catabolic for a bit...so I can see where the idea for this question came from.

I would say that it is more important during workout days to meet nutrition goals... you'll probably get a better work out in

as a general rule, isn't today's food tomorrow's energy? I've always found that if I have a hard physical day and don't eat enough the day before I have no energy.

If I eat good the day before but don't eat enough day of, I'm still fine and have plenty of energy.

Not sure how it actually works though. I'm not a nutritionist.

too myopic to handle

depends what miss means

if below...better to hit on workout days as ur net calories taken in would be higher
if above...doesnt matter

Hmm.

If you're below on a workout day your daily requirement for that day will put you at a larger deficit from burning more.
If you're below on an off day that's less of a deficit since you're not expending as much energy.

Right?

vouching that death and ryan said.

it's not a silly question at all imo. if you're working out 3 days a week, as in 3 days in a row, i'd suggest making absolutely sure you hit your calorie mark the 3 days you workout and the 1 day before.

who's to say the period of time we need a specific amount of calories is 24 hours? why cant we all be more like snakes and just eat 2500*7days of kcal in one day, once per week? think of all the time you'd free up for activities on the other 6 days?

you would spend the other 6 days shitting

efficiency ftw