yeah “taking day off” works best for me too, if I try to push myself too hard on those days, I don’t succeed and get exhausted from the self induced stressing.
Or if I really really need to get things moving I drink coffee on that day, seems to work. Not very effective when drinking coffee on multiple days a week though
not from US, so we have lots of Mcd and couple of Burger Kings and KFCs, but those are out of the way