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POLL: Cheat Days

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  • randomtai
    randomtai Posts: 9,003 Member
    Hit your calorie goals...hit your macro goals...it doesn't frackin' matter when or where you have a candy bar if you're hitting your calories and macros.

    This. :drinker:
  • WaistAweigh
    WaistAweigh Posts: 54
    Hit your calorie goals...hit your macro goals...it doesn't frackin' matter when or where you have a candy bar if you're hitting your calories and macros.

    This. :drinker:

    ^^
    I agree!
  • Calliope610
    Calliope610 Posts: 3,783 Member
    I once read (here on MFP) that planning for cheat days in a successful weight loss effort makes as much sense as planning to cheat in a successful relationship/marriage. To follow that analogy, every day I attempt to be the best wife I can be. Some days, I accomplish that, other days, not so much. My eating is much the same. Every day I attempt to hit my macros and my caloric requirements. Some days I accomplish that, sometimes not. But I don't plan to cheat by indulging in things not good for my overall weight loss, just like I don't plan to indulge in things that aren't good for my relationship.
  • B_TEEN
    B_TEEN Posts: 95 Member
    I have more of cheat "moments/meals". I'd feel awful if my entire day was bad. I may plan for a cheat lunch on Fridays or going out to eat for a meal on the weekends. Otherwise, I try to stay clean....
  • christianteach
    christianteach Posts: 595 Member
    I have a cheat meal once a week, if I lost weight the previous week. For instance, my official weigh in day is Friday. If I lose for the week, I will have a treat meal on Friday or Saturday night. I eat like normal all day, but I have whatever I want for dinner, including a cocktail, wine or dessert. If I don't lose, then I wait another week. Besides that, if I want something and it fits in my calorie goal I go ahead and eat it. It works for me but I'm able to limit it to one meal and rarely do full day of eating whatever I want, even on vacation.
  • kdhamner
    kdhamner Posts: 309 Member
    If I didn't allow myself to have a treat once in a while, I would never stick to this. I just have to be careful and make sure I stay within my calories and don't do it often. I'm doing fine so far with my weight loss journey.
  • 777Gemma888
    777Gemma888 Posts: 9,578 Member
    Do you believe in having cheat days, or just an occasional treat like a candy bar? I get alot of differing opinions on this type of thing.

    I do not believe in cheat days or having days where I eat so called 'bad food.' I eat whatever I want , whenever I want ~ watching my calories and macros. No complaints to date. :smile:

    ETA: smile
  • marissafit06
    marissafit06 Posts: 1,996 Member
    I have a cheat day once a week. It makes it easier for me to eat cleanly the rest of the week and it allows me to eat the foods I like in moderation. I don't go all out though, I will just eat things I like, frozen yogurt, soft baked pretzels, etc.
  • britgarn
    britgarn Posts: 6
    I stuck very carefully to the Body for Life program a few years ago and dropped weight like crazy. I took a lot away from that experience and they recommended 6 days of really strictly watching what you eat -- trying to stay away from process carbohydrates, fast food, etc (clean eating basically) -- for 6 days of the week and then on the seventh just go crazy with a cheat day. There are studies that show it's helpful to your metabolism to "confuse" it. Since getting back on the eating healthy/working out steadily band-wagon, I've noticed that cheat days help. I try to limit it to one day out of every 14 . . . but I don't beat myself up if I have one in every seven. You have to do what works best for YOU.
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