Cheat meals/days

Breezyy32
Breezyy32 Posts: 39 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Do you have a cheat meal or day and how often if any?
Personally I have cheat meal every Friday but i thinks it's a bit overkill as it takes 3 or 4 days to drop back to normal weight

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  • MelaniaTrump
    MelaniaTrump Posts: 2,694 Member
    edited July 2016
    Cheat days - most horrific waste of 6 months of my life.
    "I thinks" it's not good.
  • Breezyy32
    Breezyy32 Posts: 39 Member
    Yeah I tried cheat days, good for that day horrible for the next 2 weeks. Must have been distracted when typing the "I thinks" haha
  • SezxyStef
    SezxyStef Posts: 15,267 Member
    I don't require them as I eat what I want when I want...I have done it that way since I started.

    If I want pizza I eat it...but stay in goal.

    I decided that this time when I lost weight it was going to be the way I was going to maintain...eating the foods I love and want...instead of forbidding them until I got to goal weight.
  • MelissaPhippsFeagins
    MelissaPhippsFeagins Posts: 8,063 Member
    I had a cheat weekend for Independence Day; I have a cheat week at Christmas because 3/4 of my kids have birthdays that week. Otherwise, I might go over maintenance calories on my anniversary, which is also husband's birthday and my other child's birthday in June. I've changed my lifestyle and outlook toward food, but celebrations are still celebrations. (and, no, I don't cheat on my own birthday in early January. I am cake and ice creamed out from Christmas week.)
  • dlkfox
    dlkfox Posts: 463 Member
    No cheating here. I log it all. I eat whatever I want to eat. I either fit it into my daily calorie goal or splurge and fit it into my weekly average.
  • rankinsect
    rankinsect Posts: 2,238 Member
    I only have a few days a year where I don't have a meal plan in advance. Not regularly scheduled, but typically around family birthdays or major holidays.
  • piperdown44
    piperdown44 Posts: 958 Member
    When I'm cutting I have 1 day every 2 weeks that could be called a cheat day. But that cheat day is only taking my calories to maintenance, not above.
    Not a fan of the term "cheat". Implies somehow it's wrong. Prefer the term refeed.
  • st476
    st476 Posts: 357 Member
    No way, especially not a planned one. If I'm in a 500 calorie deficit, think about how easy it would be to undo most of that. I looked up how many calories are in a slice of cheesecake from the Cheesecake Factory and it's around 1600. Plus a meal at a fast food place can be around 1600 calories too. That's already 3200 and not even much food. I would feel like I'm wasting my time if I had a cheat day once a week.

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