Do you do free days or "cheat" days?
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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.0 -
Every Friday. Usually 800-1,000 over maintenance.0
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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.0
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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.0
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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.0
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