Eydie, I personally think the shaking up of the metabolism thing has a lot of merit. Bodybuilders call it "calorie cycling," I think. It's sort of on the same lines as the free day in BFL or the Wendy plan. When I lost the bulk of my weight, I always was surprised that when I would overeat for awhile, it tended to move me off plateaus. I also have a bit of trouble getting back on track, though, but that may be because I still try to control the free day (NOT going to do it for three days
), count calories, journal it, average it in. The secret may be to block it off from the rest of life and that's what I'm gonna do ... I am rather sick of food right now and should be able to get op tomorrow ... trouble is, I still don't feel I've eaten whatever it is I'm craving ... I just don't know what it is that will satisfy me ... I'm noticing that I'm kind of doing a day on, day off thingie here for the last few weeks, but I need to eat sensibly the rest of the week ... this was a good experimental day for me, though.
Anagramatic, even if you don't lose any weight, maybe your three days of feeding metabolism and cravings was good for thee in the long run ... hope you enjoyed it ... have a good evening!!!!
Later ...
At the gym, I overheard a conversation wherein a Somewhat Fit Person told another SFP that he'd taken three days off to just feed his body all the junk food it wanted, thus resetting his metabolism and conquering his cravings and that he'd started to lose weight again almost immediately after starting to eat clean again. So I decided to take one of my days off again and eat everything I wanted ... I'm talking Pizza Hut here and dulce de leche ... not sure I'm done yet. It would defeat the purpose if I counted the calories, so like last week, I'll just remove this day from the week's average.
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s, I'm going to send my reports via email for now. 
