Binging on Cheat Days

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  • nicolaturner1986
    nicolaturner1986 Posts: 45 Member
    I used to be like this but my weight loss slowed right down then stopped and then everyday became a cheat day for me, that was a few weeks ago when I was on Slimming World before I joined this site and took the low cal seriously.

    A cheat day for me now is usually 1 naughty meal or super indulgent snack a week (like a chicken korma with Naan bread or a ben and jerry's sundae from the cinema...mmm) which I don't even attempt to count my calories and its usually on weigh in day so I have a week to work it off

    x
  • delicious_cocktail
    delicious_cocktail Posts: 5,797 Member
    I cheat on binge days.
    Please don't tell my wife.
  • suibhne
    suibhne Posts: 17
    Personally, I hate the idea of "cheat days". I figure the point of monitoring my daily calories is 1) self-knowledge, and 2) maintaining an overall weekly average. I don't experience any anxiety if I'm a few hundred calories over on a given day, so I'm fine with individual meals that end up being higher-calorie than I intended, and I still lose weight steadily in the end.

    I don't want to impose my approach on anyone else. I know that everyone has a different relationship to food and weight loss. On the other end, I don't get the whole concept of "cheat days", especially because they seem to express the view that our weight loss process is something inflexible and authoritarian that has to be "cheated on", like a calculus test. I sometimes wonder if people feel a need for "cheat days" because they're underfeeding themselves in the first place. I would encourage you to set up an overall food system for yourself that feels satisfying on a day-to-day basis (while preserving enough flexibility to have meals you really want without feeling like you've "broken" the system you set up for yourself).
  • lindsw28
    lindsw28 Posts: 16
    This is terrible. Today wasn't even suppose to be my cheat day since I had a terrible one the other night like as I told you all before. I had a good healthy day today and ended up eating 1 piece of lumpia just to satisfy myself and ended up eating 4 more..... I am so frustrated right now... How can I stop this even if I tried to treat myself with just 1???? and it all became a bad day again...

    I completely understand this because one treat would make me think ''well, I already messed up, I might as well keep eating whatever I want''. Id end up having a huge binge and hating myself for it afterward. Somebody explained it to me like this once and it really made sense: If you dropped your cell phone, would you stand there and stomp on it until it was completely broken, just because ''I already dropped it, I might as well smash it to bits''?? No way! Don't do the same thing with your day. Allow the foods you want/crave, just work them into your daily calorie goals. It will get easier with time, you can do it!

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