farmerblue- Журнал, 07 июл 14

I weight and measure my food and count the calories. I never have to trick anyone. :)  

I do cheat days too, but like Jparlett I still count. My cheat days are no more than 200 cals up and I make up for them on other days so I still keep my weeks cals balanced to 8400 or average of 1200 a day. I call it the body confusion diet. 

i try to count my cheat day calories but sometimes i just cant, like if i eat out, i looked up online and asked manager and all and dont have the nutrition information always. and cant even estimate that well yet, especially with pizza, it fluctuates so much, cant accurately guesstimate. I count when i can on cheat days. been trying to just eliminate them but seems for me if i dont have em at all i tend to plateau more often. 

Do what works for you. If cheat days help that's fine. Even if they don't, that's fine. The goal is to lose weight, gain muscle. Not make ourselves crazy.