I agree with these guys. Life happens. Move on.
Ultimately, it's what you do 90 percent of the time that matters.
Everytime you "cheat", you'll technically slow the speed at which you achieve your goal. However, think of it this way: If you cheat one day in a month, that's probably very insignicant given that you ate right the other 29 days, or 96.66 percent of the time. If you "cheat" four days, that's only about once a week, and it means you ate right 86.66 percent of the time over a month. So it's no biggie, especially if those "cheat" days are just ONE meal each time. That would mean out of 150 meals (five "meals" a day for 30 days) you ate "right" 97.3 percent of the time.
So keeping in mind the 90 percent rule (which I just made up), you'd eat "right" 135 out of 150 meals a month. That means life could get in the way for one meal every couple of days, and I'm guessing you would still see great results.
Would they be the best results POSSIBLE? Probably not. But that doesn't mean they still couldn't be very good. (Obviously, some of this depends on the extent of the "cheating", but I think it's a decent rule.)
Alwyn Cosgrove has a saying that I like, "At any one time, you're either burning fat or storing fat." To me, that's a good way to stay motivated.
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