Making up my extra calories by eating whatever i want??

Yes...the idea here is a lifestyle change not a diet. SO if you want a piece of chocolate and it fits within your goal, than eat it!

But just be careful, it is a slippery slope...you are making a lifestyle change to get fit and healthy, so eating chocolate all day and staying in your goal is not the way to do it. You can eat 1200 calories a day of just chocolate and still loose weight, there is an article floating around called the "twinkie diet", but you won't be healthy....

I have stay away from all junk/chocolate, because once I start eating it, it is hard to stop. I allow myself one day a week, usually Saturday, to have that stuff so I don't feel deprived.

Welcome!

That's how I work it I also go by weekly calorie goal instead of daily so it mixes things up a bit, but am always over my 1200 cos of eating back exercise calories. I tend to go over on my fat and sugar though - need to work on that next!

because you are using the minimum Calorie intake of 1200 Kcals a day it is more a case of nutrition rather than calories I suspect.

if you are topping up calories use during work outs then a choc bar may well be good
if just topping up calories to 1200 then perhaps something with vitamins, Iron, Calcium etc would be better

I've just upped my exercise and have been wondering the same thing. I do often have one treat item a day - e.g a glass of wine, a choc ice - but yesterday was more than 400 cals short of 1200 net cals. Today I've brought Go Ahead Yoghurt bars and fruit to work - will have something in between breakfast and lunch and some thing mid afternoon. I know six small meals is ideal, but that's impractical for me, so I'm hoping frequent healthy snacks will keep my metabolism fired up all day, and don't contain too many sat fats, sugar etc. Healthy snacks also help me stay in a healthy mindset, reinforcing my desire to make healthy choices at other mealtimes. Unless I want a bigger treat - on Monday I had a Creme Egg instead!

I would maybe do that once a week if I really, really felt I needed the chocolate but to be honest, perhaps a slightly larger piece of protein, say if you were having chicken at dinner time, would be a better option than a choccy bar two or three times a week. Or an extra, good snack - crackers and a piece of cheese or a yoghurt... something that is still nutritious rather than the empty calories the chocolate will give you.
However if weight loss is your main goal at the moment, perhaps not eating the exercise calories would be more beneficial, unless you only have a few pounds to lose when I believe the reverse is true. I'm just wondering if a chocolate bar is really the idea you had when you decided to stick to the healthy diet you mention? One choccy bar leads to two with me - I'm rubbish, lol.

I Say if you are hungry and want choc really bad then eat it. If you are not fussed by the choc then eat some nuts or fruit or another snack that makes you feel energetic and not sluggish and gives you some good stuff. If you are not hungry, then don't eat! I really don't see how eating late at night when all you are going to do is sleep will help you in anyway (many disagree i know!).

Listen to what you really want, and do that! Best way!

Long-term intermittent feeding, but not caloric restriction, leads to redox imbalance, insulin receptor nitration, and glucose intolerance.

Abstract
Calorie restriction is a dietary intervention known to improve redox state, glucose tolerance, and animal life span. Other interventions have been adopted as study models for caloric restriction, including nonsupplemented food restriction and intermittent, every-other-day feedings. We compared the short- and long-term effects of these interventions to ad libitum protocols and found that, although all restricted diets decrease body weight, intermittent feeding did not decrease intra-abdominal adiposity. Short-term calorie restriction and intermittent feeding presented similar results relative to glucose tolerance. Surprisingly, long-term intermittent feeding promoted glucose intolerance, without a loss in insulin receptor phosphorylation. Intermittent feeding substantially increased insulin receptor nitration in both intra-abdominal adipose tissue and muscle, a modification associated with receptor inactivation. All restricted diets enhanced nitric oxide synthase levels in the insulin-responsive adipose tissue and skeletal muscle. However, whereas calorie restriction improved tissue redox state, food restriction and intermittent feedings did not. In fact, long-term intermittent feeding resulted in largely enhanced tissue release of oxidants. Overall, our results show that restricted diets are significantly different in their effects on glucose tolerance and redox state when adopted long-term. Furthermore, we show that intermittent feeding can lead to oxidative insulin receptor inactivation and glucose intolerance.

Copyright © 2011. Published by Elsevier Inc.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21816219?dopt=Abstract

Source:
http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=137069523&highlight=Intermittent+Fasting+Diabetes

Though I sitll have my belgian chocolate ice cream every evening lol

I've noticed when I've had a particularly hard workout one day, if I do not eat the workout cals the next day my body goes into "hunger mode" so I end up craving crap late night the day after. I go with a balanced snack depending on how many cals I've burned... say a 5 mile run I'm at a 550 caloric defacit, so I eat some raw almonds and dried fruit, or an apple with as much peanut butter as I want. Because If your body loses too much too fast it goes into panic mode and it will actually work against you by storing the "bad stuff" like fat so it can protect internal organs if it ever goes into starvation mode again. keep the balance :flowerforyou:

I agree, if you have the calories to spare and you know where that candy bar is going to put you then have it. But be careful of your sugar intake. Try not to go over that.