I found that removing carbs and calorie counting together works well. Psychologically (and perhaps physically), allowing for one weekly "cheat day" helps to keep to it a lot, IMHO.
It's interesting to me that if you're rigorous enough the other six days the cheat day still works. I would order in restaurant food and have some alcohol with it, get ice cream or whatever, and was still losing weight overall. I guess one day isn't enough to get your body used to the high calories or something? Diet science is weird
Yeah if your weekly average calorie-intake is still in deficit, you will lose weight. BUT, it's possible to blow your weekly average with one day of binging. So even on cheat days, be careful.
It can of course. The calories have to come from somewhere. The point was that merely restricting one macro or another from one's plate won't guarantee a deficit (Over time. Yes when you're starting from 0 on what was an Americanized diet, you will lose weight in the beginning).
