Cheat day during weight loss?

cwolfman13

clayelliott847 wrote: »

joemac1988 wrote: »

martinaneuwirth wrote: »

Hi. I want to know your opinions about cheat days during weight loss? Can I have One cheat day Once a week? Or every two weeks? Daily I eat around 1400calories and Maybe it will start again leptin function and i will catch some new glycogen. Whats your opinion?

It still comes down to numbers...what you don't want to do is have 6 days of a deficit and then blow all your "calorie savings" in one go. For example...if you were in a 250 cal deficit for 6 days, thats a total deficit of 1500 calories. If you go too crazy, you could eat all those calories back and be in a surplus for the week. It's your average over time that matters.

What I do is a semi-cheat. For example, a Chipotle double chicken burrito bowl where the "cheat" is having cheese, sour cream and guac. The majority of the bowl fits my daily macros just fine but the dairy and guac puts me over my fats. End result is the marginal "cheat" is minimal. Hope that makes sense.

Whoa! be careful of Chipotle, their chicken burrito is 1000 calories. Their chicken burrito bowl is 625 calories. I am not sure how each ingedient works out, but it might be the rice.

Did you see his profile pic...a 600-1000 calorie meal is going to be a drop in the bucket. I'd say most males can handle that without too much issue...

PAV8888

To the OP:

You can have unlimited cheat or uncheat days.... because every day is just a day!

What matters for weight loss / gain / or maintenance is whether OVER TIME you are eating less / more / or the same calories as you're spending.

A day with more calories may well modify how long it will take you to achieve your planned goals, but that by itself should not be a problem as long as you're heading in the right direction.

However that question of "chocolate portion control" and how to incorporate "treats" in your life is, in my opinion, a very relevant question for long term success.

I actually think it's more valuable to figure out how to have treats without totally derailing yourself than it is to actually hit your weight loss goals on time.

Because figuring out how to weave unplanned and planned overage days in your daily life is going to be necessary in order for you to maintain your loss eventually.

So yes my personal opinion is that anything you do to train for maintenance is of great benefit while still continuing in the right direction in terms of losing weight.

As to a couple of other questions that I've seen in the discussion... I find Google Sheets or Excel quite useful in helping me calculate how much over or under I'm for the week or for the month...

Much more importantly, and even though it has not come up in the discussion, I find trendweight.com, Libra for Android and happy scale for iPhone extremely useful in helping me to gauge my weight level over time.

tabletop_joe

BigNate17 wrote: »

tabletop_joe wrote: »

A weekly cheat meal, if you wanna call it that, can help expel water weight. A couple hundred extra calories won't slow fat loss by a lot if excericise is adjusted to mitigate.

I say do whatever helps keep you happy and working toward your goals--this strategy isn't for everyone, but I like it!

I hope you mean "Retain"

Nope.

http://100down.org/the-whoosh-effect/

JeromeBarry1

OP, you can have cheat days as often as you want. If you really do want to achieve weight loss for whatever reason, you'll separate your cheat days by several days of obediently weighing and logging all your clean vegan non-GMO plant-based cat barf.