A cheat day or one cheat meal?
Taniab43
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Is a cheat meal considered a cheat only if you to over your macros or calories for a day? Or can you still cheat a couple of times a week if you stay within your calories? I have several cheats over the coarse of a weekend and usually stay within my daily calories. I just increased my calories this week and am on maintenance mode, so I don't want to gain back what I have lost.
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What do you mean by cheating if you aren't going over your daily caloric allotment?0
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IIFIYM0
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To me, a cheat meal is going over calories (or in my case, sodium) otherwise it's not much of a cheat.0
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Who or what are you cheating?
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Balance is key. You can go over some days and under on other days when you are maintaining.0
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Ya, I don't know what a cheat is if it's not over on calories. :-)0
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I try having a cheat meal on the weekends (a meal that takes up a disproportionate number of my calories and puts me over) but I mentally can't handle it and have to go walk it off.0
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I would do a cheat meal while losing...I was on 1200 calories and this would put me between 1200-1600 normally.
If you are on maintenance....you're eating more to a range of calories and I don't know that a cheat meal or day would be that necessary.0 -
If you are in it to win it, you don't ever cheat. If you want to eat something and it is within your allotted calories, eat it. I am not a cheater. I am a winner.0
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I do a cheat day only if I lose weight that week. If you're gonna do a cheat day, you shouldn't go over what your maintenance calorie limits would be for that day. I lost 61 pounds that way a couple of years ago. Though I've only been back a couple of weeks or so, I've lost 5 pounds already, even with a cheat day.0
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I don't "cheat". If it fits within my macros, I eat it. If it doesn't fit in my macros, I find a way to adapt it to where it does. I occasionally go over my suggested caloric intake, but usually only by 10-20 calories on the days that it happens. *shrug*0
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CrabNebula wrote: »What do you mean by cheating if you aren't going over your daily caloric allotment?
Thanks! I just thought if you are eating something that isn't hat great for your body, then it's considered a cheat. But it seems it's just about calories here.
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be_here_now wrote: »I don't "cheat". If it fits within my macros, I eat it. If it doesn't fit in my macros, I find a way to adapt it to where it does. I occasionally go over my suggested caloric intake, but usually only by 10-20 calories on the days that it happens. *shrug*
Thanks, makes sense!
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I am for sure in it to win it! Cheats in my opinion are a must to keep you happy. But that just me, everyone is different.If you are in it to win it, you don't ever cheat. If you want to eat something and it is within your allotted calories, eat it. I am not a cheater. I am a winner.
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Thanks, this awesome! Congrats! Keep up the good work!DoneWorking wrote: »I do a cheat day only if I lose weight that week. If you're gonna do a cheat day, you shouldn't go over what your maintenance calorie limits would be for that day. I lost 61 pounds that way a couple of years ago. Though I've only been back a couple of weeks or so, I've lost 5 pounds already, even with a cheat day.
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jenniferjohnsonament wrote: »I would do a cheat meal while losing...I was on 1200 calories and this would put me between 1200-1600 normally.
If you are on maintenance....you're eating more to a range of calories and I don't know that a cheat meal or day would be that necessary.
Yes, a large cheat that puts me over my macros doesn't happen very often. Thanks:)
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PaulaWallaDingDong wrote: »I try having a cheat meal on the weekends (a meal that takes up a disproportionate number of my calories and puts me over) but I mentally can't handle it and have to go walk it off.
I always feel bad too, and do some extra cardio! Thanks
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I have a problem with the phrase cheat day... We make choices in what we eat labeling food good or bad has not for me been helpful.. Just a thought ...0
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Never really had a cheat day. Like what others say, a cheat day might be going over calories on that certain day, which I never did. I don't like seeing red in my diary hahaha. I eat what I want so long as it doesn't go over my calorie intake. :-)0
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If you don't treat yourself then you cheat yourself0
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eh - the whole "cheat Meal" concept stems from labeling foods good/bad/clean etc…and also stems from the whole "this food is bad,but I can cheat with it once a week" which is just a way to say that it is OK to occasionally give in to cravings.
as long as you hit your calorie/micro/macro targets for the day, then fill in with what you want. I find this to be a simpler choice because you can have foods that you enjoy every day and not have to feel like you are "cheating"...
and if you do have a day here and there where you go over by a couple hundred calories it is really no big deal in the grand scheme of things. Assuming, that you are in a deficit/maintenance etc, 90% of the remainder of the time...0 -
If you are in it to win it, you don't ever cheat. If you want to eat something and it is within your allotted calories, eat it. I am not a cheater. I am a winner.
^^^This. I just fit what I want into my calories. Sorry but the words "cheat day" or "cheat meal" are one of my biggest pet peeves. And OP, if you are fitting these meals into your calories, then it's not really a cheat anyway.
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letthelittlegirldance wrote: »I have a problem with the phrase cheat day... We make choices in what we eat labeling food good or bad has not for me been helpful.. Just a thought ...
The word cheat day is pretty well know to most people and it's 2 words that I and many other people use to describe an action in a quick way.
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If you are in it to win it, you don't ever cheat. If you want to eat something and it is within your allotted calories, eat it. I am not a cheater. I am a winner.
^^^This. I just fit what I want into my calories. Sorry but the words "cheat day" or "cheat meal" are one of my biggest pet peeves. And OP, if you are fitting these meals into your calories, then it's not really a cheat anyway.
I say cheat day because everyone knows what it is.
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If you are in it to win it, you don't ever cheat. If you want to eat something and it is within your allotted calories, eat it. I am not a cheater. I am a winner.
^^^This. I just fit what I want into my calories. Sorry but the words "cheat day" or "cheat meal" are one of my biggest pet peeves. And OP, if you are fitting these meals into your calories, then it's not really a cheat anyway.
I say cheat day because everyone knows what it is.
No they don't. I certainly don't.
You have also had loads of people questioning how is it cheating if you haven't gone over your calories.
You have also had lots of people who disagree with the idea that eating is cheating.
When I chose to go over my calories I still don't consider it cheating. When I eat a meal purely for enjoyment I still don't consider it cheating.
To me it sounds very much like an unhealthy attitude to food and weight maintenance. It doesn't seem to be making you happy either..
Your words - "I always feel bad too, and do some extra cardio!"
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Alrighty then..lol0
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