Does anybody have one "eat as many calories as you want" day a week & lose weight?

I wish, but im scard that it would take me off track and i would have a hard time getting back on track.

newstart1988 wrote: »

Have you lost weight doing that?

Well, kind of, yes, except that I'm not an over eater. My starting point was about 130 pounds less than 3 weeks ago and now I'm 126lbs and I don't feel I've worked that hard. Obviously I wasn't massively over consuming each day, but I was heavier than I wanted to be. I get bored sticking to a restricted amount EVERY day so what I seem to end up doing about once a year is restricting calories every second day only and it works really well. I don't nose dive in to tubs of icrecream on my off days but if I wanted a little bit in a ramekin dish I'd have some, just not too much, 125mls perhaps. Then on my restriction days I really go for it and make the effort to come in under 1000. For some reason dieting every second day is JUST as successful and as quick for me.

At the weekends I weigh my food out as normal and attempt to count the calories but will often eat more than I would during the week. It seems to work out OK though and often I will still have lost a pound for that week. I am far more active at the weekends though (gardening and whatnot) which I think helps.

I have a super day, which is looser tracking than my other 6 days of the week - I still try to keep reasonably within my goals, but not as strict

I do find on those days, that I tend to go less protein, so I try to watch them - most of my comfort foods are fat/carb heavy

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No, as I could easily blow through my deficit for the week with one day over eating. I do have a reefed day about once every 10 days. I eat 200 past maintenance on that day, no more than that. Really don't change what I eat just up the portion sizes.

I'm a binger and there's nothing I can do with it. This said, I keep Mondays (weigh-in day) to indulge and I still have 6 days to get back into routine. It works for me and I'm loosing steadily (17.5 lbs in 11 weeks)

It happens once in a while, but not intentionally. My deficit is way too small and the margin of error way too thin for that.

I quite overweight and have been eating enough for two folks to get to twice what I ought to weigh and maintain that long term. Thus, I am now in re-training mode. Not only am I restricting my caloric intake but I'm training myself to think of that intake as my "new normal."

"Cheating" would imply I'm getting away with something -- that something being consuming too many calories. I will not get away with it. It will do what it's always done: prevent me from having a healthy weight.

When I do go over for a day, even if it's a take-out Chinese supper, I do my best to log it in the diary. If I go into the red (eat more than my allotment) on a particular day, I take that number of calories and and use quick-add to add it to the next day's breakfast. It may take me a couple days to get back to my limit but it does mean I have still eaten the correct amount for that week.

There's a current example in my diary. A couple nights ago, I fell back into some late night snacking habits. I went over by 474 calories for the day. I quick added them to yesterday's breakfast. I was still over 250 for this morning and hope to undo the rest of that 250 calories today. I did my late night snacking but instead of feeling guilty, I'm paying for it. Next time I think about late night snacking, I'll remember that it requires compensatory action on my part. And today, I'm just trying to end the day at zero instead of "in the red."

Eat as much as I want every week? No. That would completely wipe out my deficit. A higher calorie meal now and then though is fine in my opinion.

jennybearlv wrote: »

newstart1988 wrote: »

Have you lost weight doing that?

No way. I can eat 5000 calories in a day easy. I try to balance my calories over the week so I can indulge a little some days.

I find having a little bit of something I crave spaced out also cuts down on the binge desires. If you are constantly having a bit of what you crave, you never hit that point where you want to over eat on it.

No. If I had that kind of self control I wouldn't be on here needing to lose 120lbs. 80lbs.

I do that once a year - Thanksgiving. Definitely not once a week.

I gain weight when I do that. And generally end up feeling lousy. However It's not nearly as much if an issue when I limit it to one meal. It's much easier to accommodate and work off one very large meal than several.

Heh. No.

Even as a li'l ol' lady (61) weighing in the 120s, I'm more than capable of eating and drinking 5000-7000 calories in a day if I go fully off leash. I wouldn't lose weight very fast if I did that once a week!

I also think the whole "cheat" idea is dysfunctional. I had some over-goal days here & there while losing 50+ pounds, usually on special occasions, and always with understanding of how much delay it meant in meeting my long-term goal. That means, among other things, that I logged all of it to the best of my ability.