Cheat days/ Cheat meals??

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  • cosmo_momo
    cosmo_momo Posts: 173 Member
    edited April 2015
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    If you give yourself "cheat meals" (definition being that you go over your allotted calories) you are only cheating yourself out of weight loss. If you can make it fit, I wouldn't consider that cheating, that's what moderation is. For instance, I love making and eating tacos. So this week I made tacos, with regular beef, full fat sour cream, full fat cheese and I enjoyed 4, 6" tortilla tacos. But I worked out HARD yesterday, came home, weighed everything out, logged it, and then ate it and enjoyed every delicious bite. I ate 2,100 calories yesterday, but I was still in a deficit. Either you make it work, or you don't and in the end you will know which one you've done.
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,215 Member
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    cosmo_momo wrote: »
    If you give yourself "cheat meals" (definition being that you go over your allotted calories) you are only cheating yourself out of weight loss. If you can make it fit, I wouldn't consider that cheating, that's what moderation is.

    Absolutely!

    There's no reason why we can't eat delicious food ... and keep it within our calorie limits. No cheating involved. :)

  • uvi5
    uvi5 Posts: 710 Member
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    almondbutterbay wrote: »
    I feel like everyday is a cheat day in my life lol but somehow it all works. I just eat what I want and try to make it fit around my calories/exercise

    This is what I've started doing. The exercise can be hard while I'm doing it, but when I'm done, I can eat something nice and not feel like i'm cheating myself. Also, I feel physically and mentally fanFreakinTastic :smiley:
  • atypicalsmith
    atypicalsmith Posts: 2,742 Member
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    uvi5 wrote: »
    almondbutterbay wrote: »
    I feel like everyday is a cheat day in my life lol but somehow it all works. I just eat what I want and try to make it fit around my calories/exercise

    This is what I've started doing. The exercise can be hard while I'm doing it, but when I'm done, I can eat something nice and not feel like i'm cheating myself. Also, I feel physically and mentally fanFreakinTastic :smiley:

    I have so much weight to lose that I don't want to eat back my exercise calories! Another 20 pounds, and I'm going to start taking it a little more slowly.

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