What's YOUR treat method/cycle?

OldAssDude

I believe that if you want a treat, you should earn it with active calories (walking, biking, jogging, or what ever).

You will enjoy it much more knowing that you've earned it...:)

chivalryder

bcalvanese wrote: »

I believe that if you want a treat, you should earn it with active calories (walking, biking, jogging, or what ever).

You will enjoy it much more knowing that you've earned it...:)

Exercise should be for fitness, not so you can reward yourself with food. You're not a *kitten* dog.

If anything, you should eat to lose weight, and to fuel your workouts.

jaga13

I pre-log a small treat most days. I do tend to save some calories for the weekends when there will be more, delicious options. But there's no "cheating". I log everything. Sometimes I go over and I either make up for it over the next few days or live with knowing it will take just slightly longer to lose the next pound.

OldAssDude

chivalryder wrote: »

bcalvanese wrote: »

I believe that if you want a treat, you should earn it with active calories (walking, biking, jogging, or what ever).

You will enjoy it much more knowing that you've earned it...:)

Exercise should be for fitness, not so you can reward yourself with food. You're not a *kitten* dog.

If anything, you should eat to lose weight, and to fuel your workouts.

If you get and stay fit, food won't even be an issue (unless you're a glutton).

xLoveLikeWinterx

Machka9 wrote: »

I eat yummy food all the time.

I figure that if I've got a maximum calorie limit, I'm not touching anything I don't like ... it's just not worth it. Only food I like!!

If I want more yummy food than usual, or yummy food with a higher calorie count ... like say, cheesecake ... which might take me over my maximum calorie limit, I exercise for it.

I usually exercise quite a bit on weekends, so I can have pizza for dinner or whatever I want.

No cheats involved ... it's all within my maximum calorie limit.

This. I've been increasing my cals lately, which means more higher calorie foods. I've also been exercising a lot more, so it all evens out, and I'm happier.

Need2Exerc1se

chivalryder wrote: »

bcalvanese wrote: »

I believe that if you want a treat, you should earn it with active calories (walking, biking, jogging, or what ever).

You will enjoy it much more knowing that you've earned it...:)

Exercise should be for fitness, not so you can reward yourself with food. You're not a *kitten* dog.

If anything, you should eat to lose weight, and to fuel your workouts.

Should? Why should anyone other than you do as you do?

Karmyeboo

Need2Exerc1se wrote: »

chivalryder wrote: »

bcalvanese wrote: »

I believe that if you want a treat, you should earn it with active calories (walking, biking, jogging, or what ever).

You will enjoy it much more knowing that you've earned it...:)

Exercise should be for fitness, not so you can reward yourself with food. You're not a *kitten* dog.

If anything, you should eat to lose weight, and to fuel your workouts.

Should? Why should anyone other than you do as you do?

+1


Exactly... Who made you master of people's tailor made diets and in what way they think of food. No need to be snappy this thread was to see the way other people go about things as it's interesting..

Thank you for all your replies I'm starting to agree with the consensus that having a cheat day goes actually cheat yourself /: and that having treats within daily calorie allowances occasionally can break the mental fault of seeing food as a reward but instead living, and eating as you please whilst loosing/maintaining a healthy weight ☺️

CoachJen71

KarenJanine wrote: »

Liftng4Lis wrote: »

I make room in my allotment daily for something yummy.

This

In addition I work to weekly calorie goals, which means I usually eat less on week days when I have more structured eating patterns, and more at the weekends when I am more likely to go out for meals, attend celebrations, etc. So on average I maintain a deficit across the week, even if I have a 'blowout' meal.

I do this as well.

Jruzer

chivalryder wrote: »

bcalvanese wrote: »

I believe that if you want a treat, you should earn it with active calories (walking, biking, jogging, or what ever).

You will enjoy it much more knowing that you've earned it...:)

Exercise should be for fitness, not so you can reward yourself with food. You're not a *kitten* dog.

If anything, you should eat to lose weight, and to fuel your workouts.

So my employer buys doughnuts and pizza sometimes to reward us for hard work. Do they think we're dogs? Should I be pissed off that they're REWARDING US WITH FOOD?

How about when I get my kids a treat? Do I treat them like dogs too? Maybe I should be mad when Mrs Jruzer makes me a birthday cake?

I work out hard and I eat glorious food and drink good beer and strong, because I enjoy and I earned it.

Machka9

bcalvanese wrote: »

I believe that if you want a treat, you should earn it with active calories (walking, biking, jogging, or what ever).

You will enjoy it much more knowing that you've earned it...:)

+1

That's how I do it.


Plus it helps keep me aware of what I have to do to burn off those extra calories.

The main reason why I gained weight was because I went from being very active to being less active ... and not reducing the amount I was eating enough to compensate for the reduction in activity. I did reduce the amount I was eating ... but not enough.

So logging everything here helps me see the connection between my activity and the food I eat ... for example, that I need to ride my bicycle 2 hours, or 3 hours, or whatever, in order to be able to afford that particular food.

And believe me ... sitting down to a pizza after a 4 hour ride feels really good! I feel good that I did the 4 hour ride ... and that pizza is just icing on the cake, so to speak.

970Mikaela1

I eat what I want when I want. If I gain a few pounds so be it. Trying to stay at an exact number does not work for me. I go up and down ten lbs. As long as I don't skip any workouts I'm a happy camper.

cityruss

I don't treat myself with food. I find personally that's a psychologically unhealthy way of looking at food, and have spent lots of effort ridding myself of the food as a reward/treat mindset.

I fit the foods I like in to my weekly limits, they are part of the norm, not revered or placed on a pedestal.

If it doesn't fit a decision is made to either leave it, or log it and move on.

Sunny_Bunny_

I don't use food as a treat either. I agree that it's not something that I see as a healthy way to view food in general. I don't eat things I don't like. Everything I eat is good. I like vanilla low carb yogurt with some 85% dark chocolate shavings on top, but I don't think of it as a cheat. It fits into my way of eating and I can have it as often as I want really. I've lost my taste for junk foods I gave up months ago. Even if they are around because my kids want them, I don't even feel tempted. We have celebrated 3 birthdays in the last 6 weeks with another coming up next week and I had 1 bite of my daughters ice cream cake because she looked so sad that wasn't going to join her for cake and that was a compromise I made with her. Lol. I felt like I had eaten a spoonful of cold, wet sugar. Kinda gross...