[dianas]

Originally Posted by Aoife

I think of dieting like productivity and training. There needs to be resting and regrouping. Precisely because you can only go so long before you've gone too far. You have the days (or even a couple in a row) where you're super productive and get a lot done, or are at a huge deficit and hardly hungry, or rock a tough workout leaving you a puddle of a former person… but then there needs to be a day or two to recover. You need to plan out the next set of activities to get done and digest what you've accomplished, or you need to rest and let your body rebuild, or you need to refeed in some way to maintain energy to keep rockin that deficit.
Burnout happens when you don't naturally let yourself recover from whatever you're doing. When you work through the weekend. When you never take a vacation. When you never eat a friggin cookie.

Excellent post.