Do you believe in "Cheat Days"?

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  • waylandcool
    waylandcool Posts: 175 Member
    I have a cheat meal every two weeks or so (and I still try to log it) just to keep myself sane. I usually try to make it lunch, so I can adjust dinner accordingly and maybe try to burn some of it off.
  • wolfelements
    wolfelements Posts: 117 Member
    The weight loss program I'm doing says to have a "Free Day" where I can eat, in moderation, the foods I don't usually get to eat during the week. I told my husband this was going to be my drinking day, lol.
  • mndamon
    mndamon Posts: 549 Member
    If you don't eat 100% clean 100% of the time, you're just cheating yourself and your health

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  • Boltzy_17
    Boltzy_17 Posts: 1
    I think having my cheat days is why I'm losing! It's my motivation. But I'm not cheating with an entire cake, or the EXTRA LARGE combo meal. My cheat days are having a soda with my dinner or making a malt after supper. So I'm not killing myself. I maybe go over my calorie count by a couple hundred. Not by much.
  • 3dogsrunning
    3dogsrunning Posts: 27,167 Member
    The only person you are cheating with a Cheat Day is yourself. Cheating resets your cravings. How do you ever expect your body to get use to lean meats and veggies when you give it Pizza and Burgers once a week? Its like a smoker saying they will just smoke once a week. Once a week turns into once a week and when I am stressed. Then once a week and when I am stressed, and when I am celebrating. Then once a week and when I am stressed and when I am celebrating and when I am bored. Then once a week and when I am stressed and when I am celebrating and when I am bored and on any day that ends in a Y.

    For you. I am cheating no one. I experienced success with this way and still successful.
    I realize you probably haven't read my post since it is a few pages back but this is not my experience at all. Like I said, I am more of a if it fits your macros person but I was on a strict diet while training for a competition and was allowed a cheat day (at first) and a cheat meal later on once every week or two. Cheat days taught me to appreciate food and understand and control my cravings, something I carried over when I went back to my usual way of eating. I got used to lean meats and veggies just fine, it was all I ate and still is for the most part.

    This is a very individual topic. Some people, like me, do well with cheat days. Other people, like yourself, don't. But it is wrong to say that I am cheating myself for doing what does work for me just as it would be for me to insist you should be doing cheat days.
  • amsal223
    amsal223 Posts: 5 Member
    Agreed... my cheat days outweigh the healthy lifestyle (I refuse to use the word diet because that means I'll stop dieting and gain all the weight back). I need a big mac once in a while like once every 6 months), and I'm going to eat it.
  • justicekenny
    justicekenny Posts: 80
    The only person you are cheating with a Cheat Day is yourself. Cheating resets your cravings. How do you ever expect your body to get use to lean meats and veggies when you give it Pizza and Burgers once a week? Its like a smoker saying they will just smoke once a week. Once a week turns into once a week and when I am stressed. Then once a week and when I am stressed, and when I am celebrating. Then once a week and when I am stressed and when I am celebrating and when I am bored. Then once a week and when I am stressed and when I am celebrating and when I am bored and on any day that ends in a Y.

    yeah .. cool story .. lol
  • TRACYW2002
    TRACYW2002 Posts: 33 Member
    :smile:
  • baldielove13
    baldielove13 Posts: 219 Member
    Yep, I believe in cheat days. They keep me sane. I think of them as treat days.
  • beccadaniixox
    beccadaniixox Posts: 542 Member
    That's very interesting, but I don't have a 'cheat day'.
    I have more of a "splurge day" where I get one meal that I really want.. and know will send me way over my caloric intake.
    It's more of a day where if I end up getting something bad I don't feel guilt or like a messed up.

    For example, this week is Valentine's Day.
    My boy and I are going to the Melting Pot Saturday evening and I am super excited!
    :)
  • IronHutch
    IronHutch Posts: 449 Member
    I have spent an entire lifetime developing a strong relationship with Chocolate, I can't just cheat on it with Vegetables all the time...c'mon people! Do what works for you!
  • elena0559
    elena0559 Posts: 29 Member
    hhhmmm an entire cheat day? I dont think I can trust myself with a whole day of cheating/treating myself. But maybe later one meal for a speacil event or something like that.
  • CarlieeBear
    CarlieeBear Posts: 325 Member
    change the word cheat to treat

    I like this! I'm officially changing cheat to treat. My doc encourages occasional treat days. Right now, I'm super busy for a few days and have given myself permission to have maintenance as my goal for a couple of days. Eating at maint. is my goal for treat days.

    And...

    There is a HUGE difference between cheating on your spouse or bf/gf and cheating on your diet!!!! Cheating on your diet affects you and your goals for yourself. Cheating on another person affects the other person and your relationship! There's no trust issues in my "relationship" with food. Once trust is broken in a human relationship, it's extremely difficult to repair. I have a commitment to my bf to not be with other men in a romantic way. I've never promised anyone, including myself, to never eat chocolate or a high-calorie meal ever again. Now...certain foods I find extremely nasty tasting...I promised myself to never eat them again :-)

    In short, comparing cheating on your SO to cheating on a diet shows huge disrespect for that type of relationship.
  • twinkiemon
    twinkiemon Posts: 216 Member
    I will usually have a cheat meal, because if I have a cheat DAY, I will eat absolutely every unhealthy food I can get my hands on in a 24 hour period. So I'll go out and maybe order something that's not real healthy (like this Sunday I already know I'm going to be bad at lunch so I'm preparing for it ahead of time by eating healthy the rest of the week. And I don't always have a cheat meal every week either - some weeks I'll be good the entire time. But you have to treat yourself every not an then - no one's perfect all the time.

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