Feeling guilty about eating or having a cheat day

Chelsmarie61

It's been going on for a few months but lately this month I've been really hard on myself about eating or having a cheat day. Does anyone have healthy nutritional guides I could follow or something.

tillerstouch

What I do when I want a "cheat day" is eat like I normally would all day but give myself one meal that is higher calorie.

Another piece of advice is instead of just forgetting everything and all your tracking is to eat maintenance. So track everything still and eat whatever you want up to your maintenance calories. This way you wouldn't have any negative impact on your weight loss.

StaciMarie1974

Easier said than done, but Try to remove the emotional attachment to food. Food is fuel, nothing more. Some food choices leave you feeling full, satisfied longer than others. And some food choices leave you feeling crappy if you eat too much of them. Consider these effects rather than emotions in making your food choices. And of course consider how they fit in your calories.

Your daily calories are like a budget. For your personal finance budget, you sometimes factor in 'wants' after the 'needs' are met I imagine? The same can be true for your calorie budget. Though sometimes when I consider the caloric impact, the 'want' fades. 660 cals the other night for a piece of pie after dinner: I didn't want it THAT much. So I had a bite of the pie, and a 220 calorie candy bar instead. That combination was a better fit into my calorie budget. *It was free-Pie-Wednesday where my son & I went for dinner...

Francl27

I make my 'cheats' fit in my weekly calories. No guilt there.

shadowfax_c11

Stop calling them cheat days and stop believing that you are a bad person for not always being perfect.

I never have cheat days. I do however have days when I consciously choose to eat more than my calorie goal. Since I still log whatever I eat I tend to still be in some kind of a deficit or around maintenance. I am not cheating. I am choosing. Somedays I chose pizza and Ice cream. Some days I choose lots of veggies and lean protein. Some weeks my weight goes up, more often it goes down. Yes slowly, because I am not in a hurry to reach some magic number.It all balances out in the end.