That's not good logic to give someone though.

The problem arises when someone gets hungry again later. They'll look at their calories in and out and either not eat then, or stagger their meals and eating habits to accomodate bad foods in greater amounts than if they're to eat smart.

If you can manage to eat your daily allotment of calories in donuts and pizza, knock yourself out, but for that 12 hours between meals to keep the count low, you're fucked.

I spent MONTHS with dieticians last year on this, because I wanted to clean up my diet. They said it's better to cheat and to deny, but have a real meal plan that accommodates cheating occasionally rather than having one that's built on eating bad foods whenever you want in the fashion described above.

They justified it because a good diet will have you full and not hungry all the time. And it's true. If I'm on my proper diet, I'm never hungry. Ever.

Eating is time spent not playing. Except for ice cream.

EPIC TRUTH.