"Free Day"

Nothin' wrong with it. It's actually beneficial to your metabolism to have free days or "days of increased calorie intake" as I like to call it, because really, that's what it is. And agreed, it keeps you sane :happy:

Enjoy your Saturday free days! :drinker: :smokin:

You don't have a lot of weight to lose so I prob wouldn't worry about it. Just don't go too crazy...lol. Personally, I use Saturdays as my free day from exercise, but I watch my calorie intake very closely because I just started and I really like eating healthy and feeling good about my choices. I know how I would feel (at this point) if I did have a free day, BAD. But again, I just started and I don't want anything to tempt me back into the old lifestyle. One suggestion, maybe have your "free" day on food on a day you exercise. That's probably what I'd do. Then I wouldn't feel so bad...lol. But if the free day is working for you, then stay with it. Everyone is different and what may work for one may not work for another. Good luck!

Well, I disagree. Of course it depends on how strict your diet is throughout the week. BUT, if you can rationalize a "free" day, then why can't you agree on a "super strict" day as well? So a "free day," a "super strict day," and 5 regular diet days. Or get the math nice and tight and reduce the free day excess across the other 6 to make it easier.

I really don't understand those of you who say it is good for your metabolism, but won't agree that a strict day added in is also good. Its along the lines of zig zag, but not as elaborate.

Be careful of the dark horses of delusion, rationalization, and denial. After all, in 3 months, IF you were indeed playing games with the numbers or the program, what you see in the mirror or how you look in a binki or swim trunks isn't going to play along with that game. It will smack you with what is called REALITY. Then will come the plethora of BS excuses and esoteric meanerings through putative differential physiology, hormonal relativity, etc etc ad obeseum that come across as "well dieting doesn't work for my body type."

Look it is all about YOU. I am not saying you need to look like x or y, or anything. YOU come up with what your goal is. But I do subscribe to a couple of axioms, and want more people who are REAL about a couple of things:

This s*** is HARD. I'm a little hungry right now. Sometimes I wish I had some magical solution.
There are NO magical solutions, well maybe surgery if you really overweight. But isn't that just NO BS IMPOSED caloric restriction? Your portion sizes JUST got decided for you. Period.
We MUST measure accurately our portion sizes, calories, whatever, and systematically decrease them to a maintenance point. Believe me, you can find lots of people here and throughout the world who will join in on the chorus of delusion, rationalization, and denial. Misery loves company.

Playing games won't get you where you want to be. Believe it. It is all up to you and you alone. I want my goal so bad, and so determined-- I want what I see I can look like MORE than a free day or a cookie or such.