How important is it to eat healthy EVERY day?

So I work graveyards on the weekends....long 12 hour shifts....all alone.

I really freakin crave fried foods and like hamburgers and stuff. So my question is....If I stay with in my calorie bracket (which I still don't fully understand). Is it ok for some (most) of those cals to be crappy ones?

And how many cals below your burn meter are required to be on track each day? And how many of you get close to your burn meter sometimes?

thank you

This is a tough question to answer but here are some random thoughts

In essence you would still lose weight if you kept under your calorie limit but I would be concerned because hamburgers and greasy foods are so high in calories but so empty in nutrition that you would be missing out on healthy eating for sake of a diet.

I find when I start eating healthier that I crave the fried food less and less. You can have fried food every once in a while but it's a slippery slope - grease makes you crave more grease. If you are eating fried food more than once a week you are in trouble.

If you are really serious about losing weight and being healthy try to find some better things to eat that will help you. I like fries but I will make my own by making potatoes in the over, I'm not going to try to pretend they are as good as fries but its a better decision. I make my own burgers using extra lean ground beef.

Eventually you will find that your taste for things change and you will crave junk less and you won't need burgers and fries anymore.

The answer is, It is important to eat healthy "most" every day.  I agree with the previous posting that the problem with eating junk or greasy food to fill your calories is nutritionally deficient.  The goal here is both looking and feeling good, as well as dynamic health.   If you are able to maintain a good and healthy target for calories and nutrition most days, then taking a day a week and really enjoying any of your favorite foods, even plenty of them, is good and healthy.  Additionally, you don't feel so restricted or deprived, and you are able to reward yourself for a job well done all week.  Keep in mind this is ok in moderation, once a week, not a few time a week. 

Your calorie bracket is a general measure of the amount of calories you should target daily in order to reach your weight goal.  You will also need some form of excercise or activity most days such as brisk walking or cycling for 20 or 30 minutes, even weight lifting (very effective) to really get you to where you want to be.  Measure yourself in terms of how you look and feel.  To me, visualizing how you want to look and keeping that as your focus daily is more motivating and rewarding than weight, though both will happen if you are diligent.

The burn meter is a general measure of how many calories you are burning daily based on your activity level.  Get your burn meter up and your calories down and you will lose weight and inches.

Good luck and enjoy! 

I have a similar problem... I work in a restaraunt where the wait staff (me) are allowed to have whatever we want of the ice cream, desserts, and bread/rolls around in the kitchen... which is a death trap for me, since I'm a sugar junkie! I try to eat as healthfully as I can at home when I'm not working on days that I work, and allot as many calories as possible, because I know that no matter how hard I try, I'll end up eating a cup of ice cream and probably some cookies or whatever is around. so maybe you could do the same thing? try to eat lots of fruits/veggies before and after your shift and save as many calories as possible so you can have your fried food during your shift. and then, eat as healthfully as possible on the days you don't work. that's what I've been trying to do, it's mostly working for me!

Well if you care about your body and your health you will realize that it's important to eat healthy EVERY day!

Yeah, I know I sound like somebody's mother...Well I am...

But anyway, eating healthy is the best gift you can give yourself and those who love you. 

All that crap food is exactly that, crap...It clogs up your body and makes all your organs work that much harder and causes them to wear out quicker.

I know most of you are very young and don't give your morality a thought...

I personally want to live a very long time...there are still too many people around that I haven't had a chance to annoy yet!

Although I'm 56 y/o, I'm probably in better shape than most people half my age. 

The idea is to eat about 500 calories less than what you burn everyday with being sure to get at least 1200 minimum....

Eating at your burn meter will keep you in maintance...

I try to follow the 90/10 rule... if I'm eating healthy 90 % of the time, then 10% of the time I can have less healthy stuff.  This is especially true if you are active.  This means that if you hypothetically eat 21 meals a week, about 2 of those meals can be junk.  It's what you do over a period of time that matters.  That being said, it isn't good to do it every day.

My problem with fried/processed/sugary foods is that when I eat some I want MORE!!!!

I have soemwhat of a same question

 

is it okay to be eating 4,ooo calories every day and be sendentary?
I've been eating like this allofthe sudden.... inormaly eat only 2-3k......
I'm gona get fat, arent i?