The point has come that I definitly need to lose some! I tried to lose a bit of weight while not changing too much over the past few years, but actually gained more and more, especially during this past year were I spent 80-90% of my time inside my apartment.
While I'm trying to exersie more (or at all) as well, because I would also like to get fitter, I'm pretty sure I mainly need to eat less calories. I've gotten an app to track what I'm eating and to get an idea of how much calories what meals and snacks are, which definitly helped in terms of making me more aware. But I also enjoy eating tasty stuff and I like to have some beers with my friends on the weekends (or occasionally during the week), so while I might be able to keep a below-2000-calories-per-day diet during the week, I usually fail to do so on the weekend.
One way would of course be try and tone down the weekend input for a few month, until I lost some weight, but I also know that I have a pretty hard time doing that and will probably fail to stricktly stick to it for a longer period.
So I'm looking for other options, but my knowledge here is pretty limited. I know ofc that "cheat days" are a thing, but I have no idea if those actually work well with a diet and if so, how many can be squeezed into a week and how much cheating would be ok: do people just go all-in on one day of the week? Is there like a max. amount of calories the body takes in for one day, so for example there is no difference between eating 3000 and 4000 calories in one day? Or will I have to account for everything I sneak in on that day by cutting down during the rest of the week?
I also read about variants of intermediate fasting where people eat very little (like 500 calories) on one or two days a week. Does that work to compensate for these 'cheat' days? Or would my diet end up too messed up if I tried to go for 2000 calories on a normal day, 3000 on the weekend and then compensate with 500 calories on 1-2 days? Also what would be best here? Monday, to compensate right after the weekend or mid-week to not have too much of a difference between the days?
Are there other ideas as how to balance this out?
I feel like my main problem is that I wasn't able to find a good "set of rules" for myself, as how to treat and compesate for going over my diet goals!
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