Cheat Days?

galenofedgewood
galenofedgewood Posts: 146 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Here my wife and I thought that today being a cheat day was going to be a wondrous thing. Eat what ever we want and in the amount that we want.

What happened? Yeah, we get full so dang quick and the amount and types of food eaten just doesn't sit well with us anymore. And the crazy thing about it? We've only been at this fairly hardcore for about a month...

Ugh... Almost makes me not want to do cheat days anymore...

Anyone else have that problem?

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  • Gallowmere1984
    Gallowmere1984 Posts: 6,626 Member
    It happens to a lot of people. The body gets used to being fed certain things, and can get pissy when you give it an overabundance of something it isn't used to. When I do hardcore carb refeeds, I spend the day smelling like I **** myself from all of the gastric...issues it tends to cause. xD
  • missjanetleigh
    missjanetleigh Posts: 149 Member
    Today was mine, so I went and got KFC I was craving home food. I logged it in my food diary and couldn't believe that little meal cost me 690 calories. When you start putting hard work in work outs and then you see what damage food can do in small quantities it's no longer enjoyable. LOL

    I did have a flavored coffee and got a size smaller than I was having when I drank them a lot.

    I think I could have had just that and my normal salad etc and been fine.

    I'm really ready to end this fat life so badly that food is not going to own me! : )
  • melbatoast917
    melbatoast917 Posts: 370 Member
    I don't have cheat days. Never have. I feel like I could do more damage in one day of not giving a flip than the good that it took me all week to do. I do, however, recommend having a cheat meal every once in a while. For example, I enjoy a fish fry with my family once a month. ;-) Keeps me from going through french fry withdrawal.
  • Ultragirl2374
    Ultragirl2374 Posts: 390 Member
    I've been at this for about a month now too and I could not agree more! I find I can't eat as much in one sitting and if I eat heavier foods I feel so bloated and uncomfortable. It is seems so not worth it to eat it!
  • AddyMaeMomma
    AddyMaeMomma Posts: 84 Member
    I've not given myself a cheat day yet. I keep seeing the number go down on the scale and I'm scared to mess it up!
  • StaceyZombie
    StaceyZombie Posts: 69 Member
    My motto has always been a cheat meal, rather than a day. It's usually pizza on Friday nights but almost always fits into my cal budget. Moderation is the key!
  • Soosannah
    Soosannah Posts: 270 Member
    My motto has always been a cheat meal, rather than a day. It's usually pizza on Friday nights but almost always fits into my cal budget. Moderation is the key!

    ^^this^^. We have a cheat meal every 2 weeks or so, usually dining out, steak, prime rib, sushi. things we wouldn't normally eat. Tonight was take out pizza and bread sticks. I feel like I ate a boulder! But everything is always logged regardless of how many calories I am over. Managed only 30+ over today, but my fat was ridiculous.
  • 970Mikaela1
    970Mikaela1 Posts: 2,013 Member
    I just did a cheat week....ate whatever i wanted for an honest 7 or 8 days as an experiment....well needless to say i now have a reason to count calories again:) i probably won't do it again for a long while.but nonetheless a great learning experience about my body and eating habits. One day was not enough for me to learn that i need to count my calories!
  • fitfreakymom
    fitfreakymom Posts: 1,400 Member
    Even though I call it a cheat day it is not a cheat day lol I still eat a healthy planned meal but just might have 2 or 3 cookies that day or on ocaisson I will have fast food burger meal but last time i went out to burger king I had a grilled chicken salad and it did me for lunch and supper that day.
  • honkytonks85
    honkytonks85 Posts: 669 Member
    I don't really have cheat days.
    I have days where I eat more calories than other days. I have days where I eat less calories than I normally would. Overall I aim for a deficit (or to maintain whilst I am pregnant) over a week, and don't concern myself with particular daily calories.

    I don't believe there's any benefit to weight loss having really high calorie days, it probably helps mentally though. You just have to be careful that your surplus on those days doesn't cancel out the deficit over the other days. I slowed my progress by eating too much on the weekends.
  • lunnay
    lunnay Posts: 66 Member
    I just did a cheat week....ate whatever i wanted for an honest 7 or 8 days as an experiment....well needless to say i now have a reason to count calories again:) i probably won't do it again for a long while.but nonetheless a great learning experience about my body and eating habits. One day was not enough for me to learn that i need to count my calories!

    Did you log the cheat week? It might be a lot of water retention from the extra sodium in a less clean diet. I've done this before and almost always lost the weight quickly when I got back on track. ;) Eat a couple bananas and drink plenty of water and you'll likely lose most of it very very quickly. Remember: to gain a pound of fat, you need to eat 3,500 calories *in excess* of your TDEE. That's not very easy, especially after eating better for a few weeks!
  • betoarango
    betoarango Posts: 222 Member
    PLan ahead and fit what you are going to eat into your macros...

    Went to a superbowl party, had 2 vodka cranberries and all the meat and arepas I could eat..and came 28 calories over...just had to plan my day around it...Hope to see a loss tomorrow...
  • bethanykf
    bethanykf Posts: 68
    I've been having some trouble staying on target so I had a cheat day yesterday. Back on the wagon today. It was a nice reminder that eating well and exercising make me feel good and eating poorly and not exercising make me feel like crap. Also a good reminder that one bad day doesn't mean I can't start fresh the next day. :)
  • Shock_Wave
    Shock_Wave Posts: 1,573 Member
    I gave up cheat days. I think I just got used to eating target calories on work out days and also my target calories on non work out days. I am not some crazy health nut so if some day I want a cookie I will eat a cookie or if I feel like eating some good ol tasty gmo corn I will do that too. I just make it fit into my calorie goal/macros for the day and move on. Cheat days seem like sabotage to me unless you're trying to use that day to carb up like a body builder on a low carb diet might do to replenish his glycogen for the week, or a runner might do before a race.
  • KevDaniel
    KevDaniel Posts: 449 Member
    Well it is called cheating for a reason.. Not a good thing necessarily.
  • nld410
    nld410 Posts: 36 Member
    completely agree. If you want it, have it. But that means you gotta adjust the rest of your day. A whole day of being off seems like a lot to me. It's like restarting every time because then the next day feels like day 1. Doesn't seem like a lifestyle change if I'm allowing myself a day a week to be totally "off the wagon" Plus, I don't think my stomach could take it.
  • 970Mikaela1
    970Mikaela1 Posts: 2,013 Member
    Oh yes its all logged:) astonishing numbers im quite proud!!
  • emobarbie7
    emobarbie7 Posts: 75
    Every once in a while I'll have a cheat day which is usually planned ahead so as to not go over too much and I rarely am over my weekly goal. I have had some nasty cheat days though and felt horrible, plus, when I give in too much I have a hard time stopping no matter how full or un comfortable I feel. It isn't emotionally worth it to give in as much as I have before. I like my salads and my carrots.
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