For your cheat days/meals, do you just have one cheat meal, or is the whole day a cheat day for you? Or do you not have a cheat day/meal?
If you do what food or drink would you choose?
I have a cheat meal, it's usually on a Sunday. We go out with my husband's sister and her husband. Maybe it's it nacho's or I get a hamburger. This week I want to get ice cream for my cheat day. I went to weight management today and I've lost 10 pounds since February ( the last time I saw her), I feel a difference in how my jeans fit, my clothes, too. I haven't had "real" ice cream since October. She does want me to be walking A LOT more. THAT may be a tough one for me with bursitis in my right hip, but I will try.
Typically either cheat meal or a refeed day.
Cheat meal~ one meal of whatever you’d like as long as you can eat it in one sitting.
Refeed day~ usually the same clean foods you’re eating for your deficit only increasing your carbs and fats. I’ll usually increase my carbs by 300-600 and fats up to 20 or 30.
We have a rule in our house - 'No cooking on Fridays" which means eating out on Friday night. I don't go overboard, but eating out tends to be a higher calorie (and harder to log) meal for me. And if dessert 🍦follows….I can count on the scale being up a bit on Saturday morning. It's not a whole cheat day, but it's nice to relax and have something that's outside of my normal routine. Very often…it's breakfast 🥓🍳for dinner.
Lately, I've been getting tired of the "weekend spikes" on my weight charts, so I've buckled down and tried to make the cheat meal fit within my daily target.
Ice cream does not get logged 🤫
"Lately, I've been getting tired of the "weekend spikes" on my weight charts, so I've buckled down and tried to make the cheat meal fit within my daily target."
Same. I have 20-lbs to lose after surgeries, resulting in several years of inactivity.
If I cheat, it starts a feeding frenzy. And, to me a cheat meal = potato chips only. I can go without anything else… I don't want anything else… I don't need anything else… but if I open a bag of chips, all bets are off & before I know it, I'm headed back to the store for giant bag 'o Ruffles with Ridges #2 with my head down, hiding behind my baseball cap, feeling like an addict in search of a fix.
No cheating for me. Once I lose 20-lbs, I'll eat a giant bag of Ruffles, or 2.
I know I feel like cheating BIG time, but I think about how good I feel and how far I've come since October. And what my husband said to me the other day, about how nice I'm looking, how loose my pants are and my shirts are baggy. Not that he thought I was ever heavy, he loved me whatever weight I was. But I made it has made all the strict dieting worthwhile so far.
When I see my liver specialist on May 11th, hopefully he will be just as impressed with my weight loss as well, too. He is what got the ball roll on, me having to lose this weight. I would like to lose 20 more pounds yet. If it's more that would be great, too.
