BeslyCheat days without breaking the week
Most diets fail on a Saturday. Not because of the meal itself, but because of what the app says the next morning: goal missed, streak broken, day red. One dinner turns into a written-off weekend, and the weekend turns into starting again on Monday.
The arithmetic nobody shows you
Weight change follows the weekly energy balance, not the daily one. If your target is 2,000 kcal a day, your week is 14,000 kcal. Whether that's seven identical days or five lighter days and two bigger ones makes very little difference to the scale.
So Besly does the obvious thing: you tell it which days are your cheat days and how big (light, medium, full). Those days get a higher target. The other days are trimmed proportionally. The weekly total — and your goal date — stays exactly where it was.
Example. Medium level, Saturday and Sunday, 2,000 kcal base: weekend days become 2,400 and weekdays 1,840. Weekly total: 14,000. Unchanged.
Why this beats “just be good”
Planned flexibility is a documented predictor of sticking with a way of eating; rigid all-or-nothing rules predict the opposite. A cheat day on the calendar is not a failure to manage — it's part of the plan, and it removes the guilt that ends most attempts.
And the day itself?
Log it anyway. Besly marks the day as a cheat day rather than a miss, and the coach reads it as intentional. If you tell it what your cheat usually involves — alcohol, sweets, eating out — the advice gets more specific, because a night of drinks and a slice of cake are not the same problem.
Set yours in the app: Profile → My goals → Cheat days.