Do you do free days or "cheat" days?

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  • mike_ny
    mike_ny Posts: 351 Member
    edited October 2014
    Everybody needs a free day once in a while just to mix things up a bit.

    I dislike the word "cheat", though. Cheating means you got away with something, as if the calories didn't count at all because you didn't record them or nobody saw you eat them.
    So, you ate over your target for a day... Big deal. Move on and get back on track tomorrow and over the course of a week it shouldn't make that big of a difference anyway.
  • SmartAlec03211988
    SmartAlec03211988 Posts: 1,896 Member
    Every Friday. Usually 800-1,000 over maintenance.
  • stephaniebnelson
    stephaniebnelson Posts: 2 Member
    edited October 2014
    I use MyFitnessPal and Fitbit together. I allow myself one day each week to eat over my MyFitnessPal calorie limit and one day to not meet my Fitbit step goal. The only rule is that they cannot be the same day. On the day that I eat over my calories, it doesn't matter if it's 1 calorie over or a bazillion. That's it. But I still track EVERYTHING I eat, no matter what. I've found that works for me, keeps me from being so stressed out about what I'm eating that I lose motivation, etc. I may not be losing as fast that way, but I am losing, which is what matters to me.
  • Asheea
    Asheea Posts: 211 Member
    I have a free meal every Sunday. Sometimes twice a week if we have a date night on Friday but that's like once a month kinda thing.
  • MsHarryWinston
    MsHarryWinston Posts: 1,027 Member
    Hmmmmm nope. I eat everything in moderation so I never really feel so deprived that I want an extra 2,000 calories in pizza or something. If I know that I'm going to want a more calorie dense treat then I pre-plan my day around it so that it all fits in. I've never eaten 2,000 cals a day when tracking so far (about 2 months) even on dense calorie food days. My maintenance is 2,500. I think the closest I've come is 1800. And I track everything that I can, though some foods like at Thanksgiving were just untrackable.