maximum calorie intake on "treat day"

Try looking at it a different way. Build those lovelies into your everyday life, but in smaller doses. You'll soon not see them as forbidden treats to binge on and you'll find you will be satisfied on less of them.

Also, get the best quality you can afford and savour every sip and nibble.

As a former food hoover I've managed to avoid these guilt traps. Oh and I still have big exercise days where I just eat everything I want, but it seems to be naturally more moderate because I have the foods I love in my every day life.

I eat until my "Net calories under weekly goal" is pretty close to 0. I don't usually eat exercise calories back during the week, so I typically have about 3500-4000 calories that I can consume on Saturday and Sunday. I like to keep Saturday pretty low - maybe only 100-300 over goal, and then I can eat even more on Sunday. I prefer to do it this way instead of incorporating these treats into my diet throughout the week because weekends are usually just me and my husband (who is currently bulking and eating 3000+ calories per day) and we like to get dinner out (I don't cook on weekends, aside from meal prepping for the next week) and a frozen yogurt or something. I don't want to have to choose between going over my goal for the week or ordering some salad at a restaurant when I really want something tastier. Whatever works for you! I don't consider my weekends a binge at all - I log it and keep it under my weekly goal. How is that a binge? Binge = mindless eating, period. If you're under your weekly calories, you'll lose. Timing makes no difference. My TDEE is around 2000 and I usually eat about 2500 on Sundays, though I don't pay much attention to that.

Last weekend I had McDonald's breakfast on the way to take our animals to the vet, but I got the egg white delight and a fruit and yogurt parfait to save some calories for later (400 calories, and it was delicious). For lunch, I just ate a serving of pretzels and a light string cheese because I knew what was for dinner - Chinese food. 1100 calorie dinner and worth every single one. I had the same exact thing for lunch the next day, but ended up making an egg sandwich for breakfast instead of going out. Dinner was an Arby's beef and cheddar sandwich with a small fry, followed by a sizable cup of vanilla frozen yogurt with fruit and granola. And I still had nearly 300 calories left over for the week. I like to leave 100-300 because I log using nutritional information off of the restaurant websites, so I figure some of it may be an underestimation.

Weekends are my time to enjoy myself, not worry about staying under 1450 calories, and they don't seem to be sabotaging my overall weight loss. I also don't tend to bloat after weekends. It's weird, I usually feel "skinniest" on Sundays and Mondays, after all that food, compared to weekdays. Not sure why, but I'm not complaining. I just make sure I log everything, so it doesn't turn into an actual binge.

i use MFP try to keep it as simple as poss, my TDEE if i type my stats and say im moderate activity it says 2425-20% = 1940cals a day!! thats too high in my opinion if i say im light activity 2151-20% = 1720cals??? i think i prefer the method of MFP 1420cals then all excersice save for saturday, it shows i have eaten all my 1420 so as long as im not dropping below 1200 i should be ok x

food hoover

Morf....JMO, but I think that waiting for a whole 20 pounds gone to treat yourself is just going to set you up for failure! Maybe allow yourself a small treat on the weekend, to give you something to look forward to after working so hard and being so good all week!