I was just reading through some articles on Precision Nutrition, and they talk about a ‘ReFeed’ day… or what I’d call a ‘Go Wild’ day.
If you stick to a structured meal plan for 2 weeks, then there’s one day when you can ‘Go Wild.’ It should be planned for in advance, and you can have anything within reason. That within reason means: 3-3.5x the standard calorie allowance for the week. AND it means that you have to be 100% committed during the other 13 days. No deviations.
A couple of reasons for me noting this:
- This is similar to my strategy right now, of having every Saturday off nutritionally. Well, I don’t mean EVERY Sat off, I mean dinner. This supports this strategy (albeit doing it less often – once every two weeks, rather than weekly)… something to focus on.
- When you splurge, you also do a weight training session – all those additional calories need to go somewhere, and they should go to rebuild your body, rather than directly to your stomach. Right now, Sat is typically a walk far day, and not a workout day. I should turn that around.
- It’s good insight for the next phase / part of my training plan – aka starting in 2010. I’ll have the Precision Nutrition plan – which I hope will be useful to me (we’ll see), and implementing some of these recommendations will also help a lot.