I like 6 days of on point diet only carbs around workout and upon waking, and one free day to do whatever I want. That has been working for me pretty well. Steadily dropping weight slowly, and slowly dropping BF couple tenths of a percent a week. Very sustainable plan. Now if I had some impending date that I needed to get down to a certain BF for I probably need to get rid of FREE day. But since I don’t have a competition it really works well for me. BTW, I’m in the 14s in BF
This is what I would consider a maintenance or slow cut approach. My goal would be able to get down to about 10, and be able to free eat as often as I like while maintaining the 10-11 BF