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I've been struggling with these two topics for the past few weeks. Mostly in terms on health.

Fueling my body with healthy food is great, but I also want to eat unhealthy sometimes.

How do I draw the line somewhere? I hate not having a justifiable reason for an action.

This is what I've decided on:

7 days of healthy eating earns me 1 day of really unhealthy eating or 2 days of somewhat unhealthy eating.

Yes, these numbers 7, 1, and 2, were all arbitrarily picked, but at least it's a standard I can work with.

Any ideas to make it not arbitrary?

I've been struggling with these two topics for the past few weeks. Mostly in terms on health. Fueling my body with healthy food is great, but I also want to eat unhealthy sometimes. How do I draw the line somewhere? I *hate* not having a justifiable reason for an action. This is what I've decided on: 7 days of healthy eating earns me 1 day of really unhealthy eating or 2 days of somewhat unhealthy eating. Yes, these numbers 7, 1, and 2, were all arbitrarily picked, but at least it's a standard I can work with. Any ideas to make it not arbitrary?

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Thanks.

With yours, the more healthy food you eat (in terms of calories), the more junk food you eat.

You eat 10,000 calories a day, 1,000 gets to be junk

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Yeah, it scales. But say I'm not working out, and I taper back my diet to 2,500 calories. That's a scoop of ice cream, or a small brownie. If I'm working out, it goes up to 3,500 calories. That gets me a small post workout celebration milkshake, or a medium sized cinnamon roll.

Gotta reward yourself every now and then. Helps to motivate. I usually don't take advantage of it, though. That's just the maximum I'll allow myself if I do indulge.