Has anyone been able to lose having one cheat day per week?

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  • Desifreckle
    Desifreckle Posts: 110 Member
    Stick to a reasonable amount of calories on a cheat day. They tend to turn into several cheat days for me...so I'm not going to plan them anymore. I'll allow myself to go out to eat here and there and have what i want, but no weekly days to cheat.
  • Supertact
    Supertact Posts: 466 Member
    I eat ice cream pretty much every day and I lost 110 pounds. Why eliminate great food? Make it fit.
  • aysea81
    aysea81 Posts: 12 Member
    I have one day off my diet for every 7 days on my diet.
    It works for me. It may work for you too.
    I am focused on long term weight loss.
    It may take a little while longer to lose the weight if you do this.
    This way I do not feel deprived at all.
    This is a lifestyle that I can sustain for the rest of my life because it is not extreme.
    I know ahead of time what day I will take off and what I will eat.
    Even though I over eat on that day it does not mean that there is no control or no planning involved.
    My weight goes down every week. It fluctuates throughout the week but by the end of a full week it goes down.
  • melissaw78
    melissaw78 Posts: 214 Member
    Sometimes it's not so much as a cheat meal, it's just.....life!
    My DD13 had a softball game tonight, I haven't gone grocery shopping in 6 days, we wouldn't be eating until at least 8pm, so we got A&W for supper. 1000 calorie meal is not such a big deal if you're only at 650 calories for the rest of the day.
  • PunkyRachel
    PunkyRachel Posts: 1,959 Member
    hell yea!
  • jwat90
    jwat90 Posts: 178 Member
    I don't really have a cheat "day". I know myself and I would totally blow it. So instead I have a cheat "meal". Like if my family and I go out to eat after church I will get whatever I want without really worrying about it. I still try to estimate and log the calories as best I can, even if I go over for the day. That way I get to splurge a little without completely going off track. I think it just depends on the individual and what you know you can handle. I know if I had a whole day to cheat I would be miserable from eating everything in sight and not want to start back over again, but that's just me.
  • ketoambahh
    ketoambahh Posts: 67
    The one time I had a cheat day (because I wanted to go drinking, so I was like 'eh why not?") I felt really sick. Fatigued, sweats, nausea, the works.

    I didn't like feeling that way, so I'm not having cheat days every week. I may do it once a month, but only if I either feel like it or it's a big event.
  • GetFitzy
    GetFitzy Posts: 17 Member
    I lost 30 lbs in about 6 weeks with a gorge day , but i was extremely limiting my calories the other 6 days and working out a ton 6 days a week also. every sunday i would have a huge binge at boston market, eat ice cream, etc. but it wasn't sustainable. i gained it all back about a year and a half later. plus a lot more in the years afterwards (this was back in my college days). now i have cheat days but not gorge days. i was a serious binge eater for a long time though.
  • cece5300
    cece5300 Posts: 48
    I wouldn't do it once a week, but man I would have a heck of a gorge fest once in a while and wouldn't even gain the next day. Now as I've been exercising more and eating less, my body physically doesn't tolerate eating so much junk in one sitting. If I knew I was going to go overboard, I'd exercise more or eat less the next day
  • Hallieadrienne
    Hallieadrienne Posts: 2
    Love your ticker!

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