CHEAT DAY

pictureperfect101
pictureperfect101 Posts: 75
edited September 29 in Health and Weight Loss
We all have them, but sometimes too many! How many do you think we "should" have inorder to maintain losing one pound per week or atleast maintain losing weight? Any comments or ideas :)

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  • pictureperfect101
    pictureperfect101 Posts: 75
    BUMPPPPPPPPPP
  • pictureperfect101
    pictureperfect101 Posts: 75
    BUMP AGAIN.....MFP
  • Umeboshi
    Umeboshi Posts: 1,637 Member
    I am having one cheat day a week. Any more than that and I think it would make weight loss too slow or worse nonexistant..
  • echeindl
    echeindl Posts: 320 Member
    You know, I wonder about that to! Because when I go off my "diet" and do have a 'cheat' day I always feel so guilty about it! But I'd say no more than once a week if you're trying to lose a pound a week
  • Kanzaki3
    Kanzaki3 Posts: 656 Member
    I believe in 1 cheat day per week. Some weeks it's a little more but who's keeping track? Been doing great so far so everything's all good. =)
  • shreddingit
    shreddingit Posts: 1,133 Member
    not day but 1 meal a week or 2. keep them under 1000cals each and watch sugar and sodium content.
    I do 1 cheat meal every thursday and been able to lose more than 1lb a week.
  • Thriceshy
    Thriceshy Posts: 708 Member
    I don't cheat. If I really want tiramisu or macaroni and cheese, I make sure I have the calories and the carbs for it. I will, on rare occasions, eat up my deficit so I can have more (like when on vacation), but I don't ever just go nuts and have everything I want all at once. That's what got me here, and cheating "just for a day" has derailed every failed diet I've ever been on. A day turns into two, turns into a week.

    That's just me. For some it works. I think it pays to know which you are. It took me years to figure out that "cheat days" sabotage me every time. I do better working the foods into my weekly plan.

    Kris
  • coderedcoderedjkjk
    coderedcoderedjkjk Posts: 72
    I don't have cheat days. If I happen to go over that day, then oh well. Days where I eat out come unexpected, but even at restaurants I watch what I eat. Don't go to overboard, because those unhealthy habits are the way you got how you are. Try and stay as healthy as possible, and don't freak out about calories all of the time.
  • crisanderson27
    crisanderson27 Posts: 5,343 Member
    I don't have cheat days. If I happen to go over that day, then oh well. Days where I eat out come unexpected, but even at restaurants I watch what I eat. Don't go to overboard, because those unhealthy habits are the way you got how you are. Try and stay as healthy as possible, and don't freak out about calories all of the time.

    THIS.

    Seriously.

    I also zig zag my calories...2 days of relatively low (1300-1500cal as a 180lb, 5'7" male), and one day of high (2100+, no real limit...but I don't go nuts. If it's 2500 or so I don't worry). On the high day...I can pretty much eat whatever I like. I broke a six week plateau this way (and I was eating TOTAL crap food too...just now getting back into eating clean) two weeks ago...and lost 8lbs over that period of time.

    Cris
  • melibea
    melibea Posts: 228
    I don't plan cheat days but if something comes up and I can't help going over my calories, and I can't burn it off for some reason, then I call that my "free day" haha :P

    I have noticed that sometimes having a day like that busts my weight loss when it slows down. At first (the very next day) I see a gain (sometimes even a 2 lbs gain) but then a couple days later I see the weigh flying off :)
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