"Oops" Question

Question out there for you guys -- So I'm doing okay overall, slowly but surely trying to get rid of the last 10 pounds.  But, all of a sudden I'm finding it harder and harder to come out of my "cheat" day (Fri night - Sat night), so that I'm still craving (at eating!) chocolate early this week (although I am scheduled to get my period).  Anyway, I'm thinking, even though I'm going over my prescribed calories (1250), I'm still under what I'm burning in a day (1900), so I'll still be losing weight, just reeaaaallllyyyy slowly, right?  There's no reason that eating a 300-cal deficit in a day would make me maintain or (eek!) gain weight, is there?  I just don't want my body to get used to 1600 calories and then I won't be able to get back up to a maintenance level ever.  Is this dumb?  Help!

As long as you burn more than you take in, you should be losing, albeit more slowly.  If you bod gets used to 1600 cals, you should actually lose weight FASTER when you drop down to 1300, as your body won't start hanging onto calories as soon.

Yup, unless you're some kind of genetic mutant or superbeing, as long as you eat less calories than you burn, you will lose weight.  Anyways, it's kinda good to fluctuate your calories.  Some people have recommended shocking your metabolism by eating a lot of calories one day, then going back to low cal the next.  Never tried it...but I have noticed that some saturday nights out with my friends at denny's, I've eaten some questionable food at midnight and STILL had a weight loss the next day.  So experiment, everyones different.

Also, that's why I don't do cheat days, haha.  Too hard to have 1 cheat day turn into 2 cheat days turn into me being a big fatass again!

I don't think i'm some sort of genetic mutant...sweet!!  I just wanted to make sure I wasn't screwing with my body somehow.  Usually, the cheat days are fine, but for whatever reason, this weekend was hard!  Maybe I'll try to scale down this week's cheat session a bit...we'll see ;)

sarahkyle~ i think you are on a right track. i just would add that i don't know who prescribed you those calories but if you work out that could be too little anyway. what could happen after a while is that you would either not have energy for working out or start eating a lot more than you need CAUSE on my experience those calories that you have to have but don't "roll over" to the next day's energy deficit and the payday will come XX so i think you're thinking right

I'm right there with you on the period cravings :-P .  The other day I ate chocolate cake for breakfast (although it was Diet Coke cake. . . as if that made it all better. . .), and I've been eating all kinds of rice, bread, cereal, crackers, and ramen yesterday and so far today -_-; .  At this time of month, sometimes it's all you can do to keep what you do eat within your caloric goals and hope for the best!