Cheat days??? do you have one or not?

Uh, yeah. If I didnt I would fail miserably. In fact, I dont deprive myself really. On the weekends I ease up on my eating. During the week its healthy eating. But lets say I want a few m&m's, I dont deprive myself of a few.

I have a cheat day. It will vary depending on what's going on in my life that day.

For me, I need that. I love all the bad foods in life lol...ice cream, cookies, cheesecake.... BRING IT ON! If I were to deny myself these things for weeks, months at a time... I would fail.

Tons of respect to those that can go without the food vices... I'm just not one of them.

With that said I don't spend my cheat day sitting in front of the tv eating a carton of ice cream lol. I will have a normal serving and that's it. Oh, and if I need a sweet tooth fix on my days where I have to be good.... I keep fun sized m&ms and Trader Joe's crispy chocolate chip cookies (super low in calories) around for a quick fix. Each is under 100 calories.

I don't have a "planned" cheat day. And I try to confine it to just one meal, not the whole day. It is too easy to erase the progress of a week of hard work by letting myself go wild for a whole day. So, if i know we are going out to dinner on a Saturday night, I make sure I eat sensibly earlier in the day. Excess sodium makes the scale go up sometimes 5 pounds for me, so if the number on the scale is important to you, you might want to consider that in your cheat meals.

Give yourself one.

In the beginning you may go a little overboard, but once you start adapting your life to your new way of eating, you will find you won't crave the bad stuff as much or at least will be more mindful of what you are eating and not want those bad things.

I do draw the lines with alcohol though. I give myself one night a week to knock a few drinks back...

depends on what is going on. for birthdays i will eat pizza, cake and icecream and not feel guilty since it's not an every day thing.

i tend to eat healthy for breakfast and lunch but then come dinner i eat what ever the rest of my family is eating (3 kids under 3 they are not really into the healhty eating). i still serve veggies and fruit but a pasta is usually included or a boxed thing is incorporated. i feel that by doing more portion controll and not a "diet" i don't feel deprived.

I don't have a specific cheat day. I eat healthy whenever I can, and then when I eat out or have a craving I splurge

Saturday nights usually, not complete sabotage but I will eat something bad.
and Sunday a.m. I like to have a real breakfast instead of a shake or bar type thing.
I love pancakes n eggs n such

Not really. I mean I never eat super healthily really, but I'm almost always below my goals and am losing weight so I'm not going to change that while it's working.
I've been tempted to have cheat days, and used to call Friday my cheat day but it all still fits in my goals. Very occasionally go out for a family meal, I try to stay within goals but don't make a major fuss over it, I eat what I want. I guess that's the closest thing to a cheat day I have. It really is maybe 4-5 times a year though.

I have a cheat meal one time a week where I can eat anything I want- I am just careful to make sure it is not on my day off from working out- works out for me better then whole day since I am just starting and of the mindset that if I just take one day then why not two ect. . .

Nope! Every now and again I'll have some booze, but I still try to stay under my calorie goal. Any day that I go over my calorie goal isn't a cheat day - it's a day I made a bad decision. I do know several people who use them and it works for them, but I fall off the bandwagon pretty easily and it's not unreasonable to think that a cheat day would lead to a cheat week or a cheat month in my case!