Do You Have Treat Days? Yes Or No?

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  • Ellaskat
    Ellaskat Posts: 386 Member
    How you create a treat day will determine if it helps or hurts you. For me, I eat slightly under my cals most of the week, and then on a Friday, my treat day, I eat over by about 300 cals. I still end up at a slight deficit for my weekly cals, which feels great to me!
  • hdrenollet
    hdrenollet Posts: 147 Member
    edited January 2015
    I have "reward" meals about once per month where my family and I go out to our favorite restaurant. Never a "treat" or "cheat" day, and not very frequently. I still log what I eat and try not to go over my maintenance calorie level for the day but I normally don't end up with a deficit for these days. I do eat the foods that I love when we go out, just in moderation. By sticking to my maintenance level at least I'm not un-doing what I've done all week, and I get back on track the very next day with my deficit.

    Also, some studies have shown that a "cheat" meal can actually help give your metabolism a boost and help you get over a plateau. However, this should be done very infrequently.
  • sjaplo
    sjaplo Posts: 974 Member
    No I just eat - some days I'm over, others I'm under. That being said, I don't eat a lot of desserts or candy.
  • SandyBVTN
    SandyBVTN Posts: 367 Member
    I sure do! I'm good with being in the red a couple of times a month. It's never because I just feel like gorging on some Chinese food at home on a Tuesday (for example) or because I'm feeling emotional or stressed. I save those times for when we have friends over for a gathering, or Superbowl, or a rare dinner out with my sweetheart, or if I can convince him that a Friday night is the perfect time for a dungeness crab and margarita feast. And when it's over, no guilt, just get back on track. Works for me, and I've never had a week of gaining just because of one day (or sometimes weekend) of fun.
  • SergeantSausage
    SergeantSausage Posts: 1,673 Member
    Every day is Treat Day.

    Eat the foods you love, every day.

    Every. Day.

    Nothing else is sustainable. You simply cannot deny what you like every day and expect to be successful. Tens (hundreds?) of millions of failed diets start out in denial of perfectly OK foods for very ignorant reasons.

  • animatorswearbras
    animatorswearbras Posts: 1,001 Member
    KANGOOJUMPS wrote: »
    all weekend,, I work my butt off hard all week and eat well, but come weekend, ITS PARTY TIME!

    Yep me too, I'm strict during the week then slack off at weekends, don't get me wrong I don't go mega nuts as I don't workout enough to compensate but wine and pizza usually happens :smiley: and recovery breakfast on Sunday lol I usually lose a pound a week

    Having said that everyones different, over the course of a week I'm obviously at a deficit since I lose, so large enough deficit during the working week and probably maintain/slightly over at weekends. If you want to add a cheat day just log and make sure you're not cancelling out your deficit from the rest of the week. Good luck x



  • hamoncan
    hamoncan Posts: 148 Member
    Nope - I just don't worry if I have a day where I use up all my deficit or even more for a half decent reason - so long as there are more deficit days than not, things keep on going in the right direction - for me that works way better than eating extra just for no reason other than it is designated treat day
  • Camo_xxx
    Camo_xxx Posts: 1,082 Member
    DropItLikeItsHotx wrote: »
    Or Do They Ramp Up Your Metabolism??

    No, exercise increases your metabolism.
  • kmayers143
    kmayers143 Posts: 56 Member
    All the damn time... lol I have found that if I want something, then i'm gonna have it. Cause if I try to eat something else to satisfy my craving, it usually never works. I just end up eating what I was craving anyways. Now keep in mind, I don't go overboard. I still track my calories, and make sure I only eat a serving size. It's okay to have a treat every now and then. My trainer even tells me to have a cheat snack everyday. (Which I don't, just becuase If i'm not craving it then i'm not going to eat it) But I look at my cheat snacks as an award for doing so great with eating right and excercising 5 days a week. Just remember, "bad meal" isn't going to make you unhealthy, just like one "good meal" isn't going to make you healthy. CHEAT!! Lol
  • Lounmoun
    Lounmoun Posts: 8,423 Member
    Not really. I don't think of food as treats or cheating. It is all food. I just fit what I want to eat into my daily calorie goal. Advanced planning is really helpful for this. Smaller portions of higher calorie foods.
    I've been losing steadily that way without feeling hungry, deprived or guilty.
  • elphie754
    elphie754 Posts: 7,574 Member
    tracie999 wrote: »
    I'm following Chris Powells carb cycling which every saturday i can have a guilt free day, most days i have between 1200 - 1500 cals but on saturday i can have up to 2500 cals. works for me so far lost 66lbs.

    That would undo my deficit
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