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  • Terytha
    Terytha Posts: 2,097 Member
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    I don't cheat myself. Sometimes I listen to my body and eat closer to maintenance, and sometimes I go on holiday and take a short diet break so I can live my life.

    But those aren't cheats, they're breaks. The idea of cheating implies that being on a diet is some kind of monogamous relationship or test and that's ridiculous.
  • MohsenSALAH
    MohsenSALAH Posts: 182 Member
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    Every two weeks just to speed up my metabolism
  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,081 Member
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    How will having a cheat day (whatever your definiton of that is) speed up your metabolism??

    and why would it need speeding up anyway??
  • amusedmonkey
    amusedmonkey Posts: 10,330 Member
    edited August 2019
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    No designated cheat days for me, the concept is unattractive to me because it makes dieting feel like being in jail and you get the occasional scheduled breather. Not how I want to diet. If I want something I ask myself if I can fit it into my calories, if yes, I have it, if no, I plan it for the next day. If I want a very high calorie meal that I can't easily fit and the effort to fit it in feels worth it, I plan for it a few days in advance and have it. It's less of a jail and more of a responsible budget management situation.

    A few weeks ago, I had ice cream every single day for 8 days straight because it felt like it was worth the calories, then other things felt like they were worth the calories more. I haven't had ice cream for about 2 weeks now, not because I'm dieting, but because larger meals are more attractive to me than ice cream at the moment. I wasn't being "bad" then, and I'm not being "good" now, I just choose to spend my calories on different things. It's all food to me, the only difference is that some things are worth the calories more often than other things.

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