I don’t want to eat a static meal plan, and I want the flexibility to change foods and fat/carb macros daily, but with flexible dieting I find that I willfully and knowingly exceed my caloric intake… usually in the evening.
I don’t want to plan entire weeks but im thinking if I track dinner for that day FIRST before anything else it may improve adherence?
This way I could get a little but more creative during the day knowing that I don’t need to worry about dinner…
Any validity to this idea/does anyone do something similar?
I think this is a very reasonable idea. When I am working with clients, we try to identify the things that are barriers or the rough spots in their adherence or the things that are making their dietary adherence more stressful than it needs to be. Seeing that you may tend to free-style your food more than is helpful in the evenings is a good observation.
So making the decisions ahead of time and then logging it might cut down on the number of decisions, even small ones, that you are making about your evening food. Once you’ve eaten that food for the evening, you are done. End of story. Finished. And if you decide that you didn’t like it, then you get to make changes the next day, but you don’t eat more at that time.
Alternatively you can look at you evening intake and see if leaving a few more macros for that time could help you.