OK so maybe the topic I used is a little extreme. For one, I don't believe in getting drunk - just close enough ;-) But my question is how do you guys handle days off from the diet?
Currently I track my calories thru fitday and usually average around 2400 kcal while my maintenance is somewhere above 1800 kcal. I try to avoid planning days on the fly (day before) becuase it can be time consuming and a real pain. So usually I just cycle 3 or 4 days of planned meals... Anyways, then comes Saturday or some other day where I'd like to have a day off. I know that over-over eating one day won't kill me becuase its bascially the total amount of calories in a week - or over a longer period of time then a day... What I've done for days like Sat. is just try to get 1/g/lbs of protein for the day from low cal foods and just hope I don't go over w/my gluttony =P. Well, a couple weeks ago I figured I consumed nearly 7000 calories in that one day alone! Granted that's NOT average since there was both a wedding and a sperate party in the same day, but it still makes me wonder how you guys do it - or even how you handle your day to day calories in diet.
Do you find drinking lots of alcohol and over-over eating once, say, every one to two weeks just isn't worth it for what it does to you (organs and body fat wise)? I find that when I drink alcohol and I drown myself in water, I am MUCH better off the next day. Keeps the dehydration down. I don't want to negate my hard efforts in diet, study and workout. But at the same time, I'm only going to be in my young twenties for so long...
Thoughts anyone? How do you guys do it?
Currently I track my calories thru fitday and usually average around 2400 kcal while my maintenance is somewhere above 1800 kcal. I try to avoid planning days on the fly (day before) becuase it can be time consuming and a real pain. So usually I just cycle 3 or 4 days of planned meals... Anyways, then comes Saturday or some other day where I'd like to have a day off. I know that over-over eating one day won't kill me becuase its bascially the total amount of calories in a week - or over a longer period of time then a day... What I've done for days like Sat. is just try to get 1/g/lbs of protein for the day from low cal foods and just hope I don't go over w/my gluttony =P. Well, a couple weeks ago I figured I consumed nearly 7000 calories in that one day alone! Granted that's NOT average since there was both a wedding and a sperate party in the same day, but it still makes me wonder how you guys do it - or even how you handle your day to day calories in diet.
Do you find drinking lots of alcohol and over-over eating once, say, every one to two weeks just isn't worth it for what it does to you (organs and body fat wise)? I find that when I drink alcohol and I drown myself in water, I am MUCH better off the next day. Keeps the dehydration down. I don't want to negate my hard efforts in diet, study and workout. But at the same time, I'm only going to be in my young twenties for so long...
Thoughts anyone? How do you guys do it?