10d • General discussion
Your dinner out isn't the problem. The 4 hours before it are.
Most of you aren't getting derailed by the dinner. You're getting derailed by the 4 hours before it.
The steak, the pasta, the burger - that's the meal you planned for. It's accounted for. Even if it runs a little hot, it's not what's blowing up your week.
What blows up your week:
- Eating like normal before a huge dinner out
- 2 drinks before you even walk out the door
- Going ham on the shared appetizers
- The dessert you didn't plan to order
- The late night McDonald's run
That's 800-1,200 ghost calories that never make it into MyFitnessPal, because they don't feel like eating.
They feel like ambient stuff happening around the eating.
Here's the move - and the guys crushing it in here already do this:
Structure the day around the meal, not just the meal itself. If dinner's at 7 and it's going to run 1,200+ calories, you don't show up having eaten normally all day. You show up lean. Protein-forward, low-fat, controlled, almost boring. So the dinner sits inside a daily total that still works.
If you went over anyway - trim 200-300 cals off the next 2-3 days. Not punishment. Just math.
I want to shoutout Devon for putting on an absolute clinic right now. Eating out 1-2x a week on a cut. Saturday: pizza and a couple old fashioneds. Friday: movie night with popcorn, candy, and a drink. Still hitting his targets. Scale still moving.
Why? Because the days around those meals are dialed. He's not trying to "be good at the dinner." He's good around the dinner - so the dinner gets to be what it's supposed to be: fun, social, not a math problem you're solving in your head while everyone else is laughing.
Most guys try to white-knuckle the meal. The actual play is to make the meal the easy part.
What's your default - do you front-load lean before a planned dinner, or do you mostly dial back after?
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Your dinner out isn't the problem. The 4 hours before it are.
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