When I had lost the weight before and used a refeed day, I didn't find that
it caused me to gain any weight back. It was rewarding to eat what I wanted
for one day and then get back to limiting my calorie intake the rest of the
week. I do this on the weekends and it helps with not being so stressful
about counting and watching calories.
Roxan
"Polar Light" wrote in message
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You can add a "re-feed" day in your week as I do. I've been told it
helps
reassure your metabolism that it's not going to starve, so don't slow
down. Also, dieting with out a re-feed day begins to suck after awhile.
You still need to enjoy life.

I posted about refeeds a while ago, although some people had arguments
against them, I had several refeeds, every 10-15 days. I was worried about
cancelling out the effect of the calorie restrictive days but, to my
surprise, even eating up to 3,500 cals on such days didn't seem to affect
the weight loss at all. There are psychological reasons for them (like you
say, life sucks without them) but as far as your body is concerned, you
seem
to need them more if you restrict calories too far on your diet days and
if
you're not really fat.