What do all of you feel about a cheating day?

h1udd

I hate cheat days ... infact I hate any "rules" you apply to food, its a one track way to an Eating disorder ... might only be a minor eating disorder, but these things can escalate

trust me on this .... you end up massively over eating on your cheat day, because you feel you have to make the most of it ... then to recover you end up starving yourself ALL week to get back those calories ... of course starving yourself makes it harder to control binges, so you binge, now you have to starve yourself even more.

it escalates.

rather than enter the world of restriction, try to eat as normally as possible for 5 days a week but in a deficit, and at the weekends allow a couple of extra treats making sure you dont go over your weekly average.

its more than possible to have pizza during the week or chocolate or even a beer ... and you remove the need to eat 5000kcal on a saturday

Snowflake1968

funjen1972 wrote: »

I don't have cheat days or meals. I do have days that are higher in calories which are balanced by lower calorie days or additional exercise.

Everything gets logged, even the extra half glass of wine on Tuesday night. I would be concerned that not tracking one day would gradually transition to more frequent days without that accountability.

I have lost the same 25-30 pounds twice and am on my third round (now with closer to 60 to lose) because I stopped tracking. You are smart to have this figured out

cnucci1979

You shouldn’t have a cheat day or cheat meal, but you should allow yourself to have anything in moderations as long as you work for it. ex. ice-cream twice a week. Even better would be a healthy alternative to your “cheat”