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Eat the food you crave within the confines of your calorie and macronutritional goals.

Have a cheat *meal* every now and then, not a cheat "day," where every meal is way over. Of course you should have a cheat every now and then, to keep yourself sane. If you know you want to have a bunch of pizza and some cocktails at night, just make sure you eat less during the day, and maybe a little less the next day, too, to make up for going over that night.

Really, keeping track of weekly calorie deficit is better for that reason, but it's easier to do it on a daily basis which is what MFP and most calorie trackers are based on.

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Have a cheat *meal* every now and then, not a cheat "day," where every meal is way over. Of course you should have a cheat every now and then, to keep yourself sane. If you know you want to have a bunch of pizza and some cocktails at night, just make sure you eat less during the day, and maybe a little less the next day, too, to make up for going over that night.

Really, keeping track of weekly calorie deficit is better for that reason, but it's easier to do it on a daily basis which is what MFP and most calorie trackers are based on.

There's a tab under nutrition with your weekly average and calories. Easy peasy.

I give myself a meal with unlimited calories every once and awhile. I have a bigger deficit a couple days before that glorious meal to have a little wiggle room. I log everything from the heavenly meal so I know where I am for the week and if it still goes over my calories I don't let it annoy me.

I fit them in my calories. Trying to go around them just makes me eat more eventually... as I eat other stuff then eventually always end up eating what I wanted in the first place anyway... Plus honestly if I eat what I'm craving, I'm more satisfied and will eat less overall. So I basically plan my meals according to my cravings...

Often I look for a healthier recipe (but still close enough, none of that banana ice cream BS). Or I go buy a small serving somewhere. Or I save calories to have more of it fit. Sometimes I have to wait a couple weeks until I'm less hungry and can spare more calories (if I crave something sweet), but typically it just means having a couple lower calorie meals to make things fit.

Mostly though I keep the high calorie dishes for lunch. It's always my bigger meal, and this way I'm often too full for a big dinner anyway, so it pretty much always works out. Saving calories for dinner NEVER works for me... I'm a 'eat 3/4 of my calories by 2pm' kind of person. If you're not very hungry during the day though you can have a small breakfast and lunch and save calories for a bigger dinner.

And I look at my weekly average, if I'm a bit over one day, I'm usually a bit under another day, so it averages out.

TBH, I exercise so I can eat more. As for cravings, I rarely crave something specific but when I do, it's usually takeout pizza. I compromise by making it at home instead.

If I feel like eating pizza I eat pizza. Last night I had lasagna and cheesecake. I don't have strong cravings because I eat all of the things I like. Luckily I happen to like a pretty wide range of things and that included lots of "healthier" choices.

Since I am very physically active ,my calorie goals is pretty easy to stick to. And I don't get too upset if I go over it a little, or occasionally a lot. If I can't do this every day for the rest of my life I can't do this. If I decide to never eat pizza and bread and chocolate cake and all of the yummy calorie dense foods I love I will (and have) fail in the first week.

Learning how to eat food you like in such a way as to continue to be healthy and lose and eventually maintain a healthy weight is the whole point.

IIFYM!

I can't have a cheat meal or day, its the wrong mind set for me. I have a party I eat light before hand, exersice that day and log what I eat. Even if I go over for the day. I use that amount of calories as a goal amount to go under for the rest of the week. Today i went over350 calories so I will work to shave at least 50 calories a day.