How often do you do cheat days/meals?

daedae171

For some reason(Feel free to judge), whenever I do a full on cheat day every 2-4 weeks, I get right back on track the very next day down to my caloric deficit and I actually see BETTER weight loss and fat loss results a week after the cheat.

Am I the only one that does this? And how do you do your cheating for better results?

leanjogreen18

I eat maintenance once a week and make up a deficit the other 6 days. Sometimes I go over a little on that day I see an immediate drop in weight.

thisonetimeatthegym

Maybe because I don't do diet gimmicks (clean/Paleo/low carb/low fat), there is no cheating. Even if I go over my calories for the day, it's set low anyways and it's less than what I'd be having otherwise.

Plus you can indulge without going all out wild - have pizza, AND a large salad. You are not going to be able to eat a ton of pizza even if you wanted to.

Want chocolate? Have a half of a Skor bar. All the taste, just 100 calories.

Breakfast out? Have the eggs benedict if you want to, hollandaise and ham too, just eat one of them, not both. Talk a lot and drink water and coffee. You'd be stuffed, because you lengthened the time to eat and filled yourself with lots of liquids.

If I know I want some ridiculously high calorie dish, I just do low cal the rest of the day. Or have a low cal day the day before.

This is probably horrible to the clean eating camp, but eating food is an enjoyable experience. Sometimes food is just fuel - you're hungry and you need to get your work done. Eat as healthy as you can those times and eat deliciously the rest of the time, paying attention to calorie counts.

TavistockToad

I don't, I fit whatever I want to eat into my weekly calorie/macro goal

JeromeBarry1

Following days when I eat too much, I get back on the program and for the next few days the temporary excess of water and sodium drains away making it appear that I'm losing weight quickly.

Angela937

I allow myself once a week to cheat on a meal. Which for me means just going over on calories since I'm not following any particular diet.

This helps me from feeling deprived all the time, and I stay on track better throughout the week.

watts6151

Currently on 1 cheat meal/day per week
Going to have to up it every 4 days to
Prevent fat lose from stalling soon

salembambi

I ate a tone of *kitten* yesterday ....I've been eating at a deficit and then having one day where I eat more usually Saturday for a while now


Kinda over it .

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MsBuzzkillington

If you aren't the only one who does this, I'll be surprised. Sounds kind of crazy.

singingflutelady

I allow myself to eat things I enjoy on a regular basis so no need to cheat