How many people actually diet 7 days a week?

me...it's how I live my life now..I can't be the "old me" I would fall off the wagon

I haven't had a chance to read all of the replies...but I don't diet. My style of eating suits my lifestyle, and allows me to eat as I please for the most part, healthy, junk, a little or a lot. I used to log religiously, and now that I'm losing bodyfat again post surgery/recovery, I'm doing the same. But there are no 'cheat' days, or days I wouldn't log my food...simply due to the fact that I'm not 'dieting' (note, that doesn't mean I'm not trying to lose weight/fat) and my intake methods...while very strict in some ways...are very relaxed in others. Once I reach my initial goal again....that may change (we talked about that in PM's).

*shrug*

I dont (diet) at all......


My eating habits are a lifestyle Change and not a diet. I do log everyday.

I am on a lifestyle change... so I don't have 'days off'- I fear that would de-rail me.

I Don't see it as a diet. But a lifestyle change haha. But I'm on it everyday! I see people wanting something of what they like at the weekends. I see it as if I'm gonna have something I like I smaller the portion and fit it into my calories OR burn the hell outta the calories with exercise!

I log everything daily and try to eat right, I also don't do 'on a diet'.

But if I were to go out at night and go nuts on the beer and pizza then it wouldn't be a big deal, I'd just resume normality the next day. The body needs some variety and a pizza once in a while would fit that nicely.

Regarding exercise, I do it if I feel like it for the feel good factor, I think it is overrated for weight loss.

I don't diet. I have a strategic eating system designed to accomplish specific goals. I don't have "cheat days" because I can eat whatever I want as long as it fits my macro targets (IIFYM FTW). Yesterday I had steak and ice cream for dinner. Tonight I had a burger and fries. Who needs "cheat days"?

Great minds and all that, lol.

Yep this is pretty much how i do things these days

I know .

If any of you are curious what I meant...it goes like this:

My maintenance (TDEE) is 2700cal/day. This gives me a total weekly maintenance target of 18,900cal. After my 20% deficit, I have a total weekly allowance of about 15000cal. I eat about 1000cal/day, for three days of the week (this is dinner...I do not eat breakfast or lunch on those days). This leaves me 12000cal to spread over the remaining 4 days of the week...allowing me 3000cal/day worth of food. The days I eat 1000cal are completely interchangeable, though I usually do it Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

Sound like dieting to you?

And yet...I still have over a 20% caloric deficit for the week.

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I've had 2 rest days in the last 37 days and on one of those days I went way over cals... I don't follow tdee but I try and reach my set amount of cals daily... I have decided to have an easy/rest day once a week where I will still go for my set amount of cals and if I feel like it do a light workout...today was suppose to be one of my 2 rest days.. the only thing I accomplished was not working out before breakfast lol.. I worked exercised my butt off and am undr cals ill have something later

I don't eat back exercise cals and this is not a lifestyle change for me, Yet. This is a means to get to a new lifestyle to where, where the cals come from don't matter, if I want a steak and a sundae for dinner its fine.. just as long as it within calorie limits... at this point I don't think eating a steak and a sundae would be beneficial and would derail my progress... and it would be nice if I could eat a 1000 cals worth of pizza everynight over 500 cals of chicken and 500 cals of veggies.. but we all know the pizza is gonna react different from the chicken and veggies so I really hope there aren't any impressionable people on here.

I am not on a diet..

however I log my intake 7 days a week

* diet is temporary
I am simply changing the amount of food I eat

I also log every day and the days, I do give myself a treat every once in awhile but i still log so then i can say "wow if i did that every day i would be at a stand still or at a gain" so i try to keep track,,, thankfully we have this site so we can see actually where we are doing wrong when it comes to eating.

I am not going to get into the semantics of 'diet" vs "lifestyle changes". I know what my journey is all about.

I am currently in week 33 of my journey and have logged every single day. It was sort of time consuming at first but now it is second nature for me and I always leave the mfp website open on my computer so I can log instantly. I dont have "cheat/splurge" days, I just stay within my goal.

I'm currently on 1300 calories (set by my dietician that I see every month) and seem to do pretty good most days on that. I've only had one day that I exceeded my calorie goal (by 200 calories). If I know I'm going out to eat, I plan around it. If I want pizza, I make compromises on my other meals to allow me to have that.

So basically, yes, I am a consistent logger. It keeps me honest and accountable to myself.

Hell no I personally don't diet 7 days a week, my life sucks enough out here in Afghanistan. I need to treat myself somehow and if that means a burger or a cup of ice cream I'm doing it. Doing a cheat day definitely gives me a mental break.

24/7 cause I'm trying to not see it as a "diet" rather a lifestyle change. I want to re-learn not just a quick fix.

This is how I think about it as well. I normally eat "regular" food and make sure it fits in my calorie limits. This is not a diet to me but the way I plan on eating the rest of my life.

I log everything, everyday. I always stay within my macros and exercise daily. It's not about a diet anymore. It's about changing my life and keeping it that way, to gain and maintain my heath. I don't cheat, I just eat what I like, mainly clean, and fit it into my goals.