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Cheat Day on Birthday?

Lady_Senie
Lady_Senie Posts: 100 Member
edited February 19 in Health and Weight Loss
I just started getting myself together starting... yesterday, but I realized today that I overlooked something important - tomorrow is my birthday. I was thinking about getting an ice cream cake to celebrate, it IS kind of a big deal. But at the same time, is it worth it to break momentum?

Thoughts?

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  • meganjcallaghan
    meganjcallaghan Posts: 949 Member
    i don't subscribe to the whole ''cheat'' thing anyway. If you want to choose to have something you wouldn't normally have, have at 'er. It's a choice and it's nobody's business but yours. Once you start labeling the choice as a cheat it puts a negative/shame related connotation on it and turns it into something dirty instead of just deciding to enjoy something yummy because, quite frankly, you can. so there. lol.
  • wilsoje74
    wilsoje74 Posts: 1,720 Member
    One piece of cake is ok and log it
  • AlysonG2
    AlysonG2 Posts: 713 Member
    Eat whatever you want on your birthday and enjoy it. I would still log it, but that's just me. One day is not gonna matter at all in the long run.
  • melimomTARDIS
    melimomTARDIS Posts: 1,941 Member
    i log holidays, birthdays, weekends... i preplan my day in the morning, before i eat breakfast. plan on eating the bulk of your cals at your birthday meal, and stick to a bowl of cereal/small salad/granola bar for the rest of your meals.
  • thavoice
    thavoice Posts: 1,326 Member
    Another reason I love the 5:2, alternate day fasting sort of eating.

    A day like this? No problem at all. That is just considered one of my feast days of the week!
  • melimomTARDIS
    melimomTARDIS Posts: 1,941 Member
    on my daughter's second bday, just 10 days ago, i ate 850 cals at her party. had cake and ice cream. no guilt, still came under my goal, like a boss.
  • jenifr818
    jenifr818 Posts: 805 Member
    go for it, just log it :-) if you go over, you go over. keep on trucking on thursday and beyond so you're not losing momentum
  • AmyRhubarb
    AmyRhubarb Posts: 6,890 Member
    Cheat day - I'm on a cheat WEEK! LOL My b-day is on Thursday, but the celebrating begins tonight. :drinker:

    And honestly, I never consider it "cheating" - I don't cheat, I just eat. :tongue: And if I go over, it's only one day (or several, in my case), and I still know enough to stop before I get to that glutton/overstuffed/uncomfortable stage. But I eat what I like and splurge if I want and I enjoy it all.

    Eat it, log it, enjoy it, move on. This is life. :smile:
  • rachaelbmh
    rachaelbmh Posts: 54
    I don't like to think of how I eat as cheating or following rules. In general, everything I eat counts towards how I'm treating my body during the day. If you want cake on your birthday - have at it! What will feel worse - eating the cake that you truly want? Or feeling deprived because you felt like you should be holding yourself to a certain ideal for the day?
  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    Calories don't count on your birthday. Unless you eat the entire cake yourself.
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  • Lady_Senie
    Lady_Senie Posts: 100 Member
    Thank you all so much for your input and everything! I decided that you're all right: a little birthday indulgence is never wrong and in no way means I 'fail at life'. I'm actually having a fantastic day (cake and all) and am more than a little confident that tomorrow will be a perfect time to get back down to 'tacks of brass' (I LOVE Rise of the Guardians - just FYI).

    Thank you all so much again! ^_^
  • AugustCountdown
    AugustCountdown Posts: 26 Member
    I would forget the diet & just enjoy my birthday. I think if you want this to be long lasting its better to do it like that & let it also fit around your life otherwise if you don't a few weeks, months...you'll just binge & ruin it.
  • ottermotorcycle
    ottermotorcycle Posts: 654 Member
    Calories don't count on your birthday. Your body refuses to put on any fat because it knows that this is the date on which it was born. It's a scientific fact, proven, by science.
  • _KitKat_
    _KitKat_ Posts: 1,066 Member
    Many have a healthy weight and eat their cake too. It isn't cheating, it is a way of life....so you must live it. Enjoy your birthday and remember this is a life change and you will have many days that are our if your normal new eating habits. Overall it is the average over extended time.
  • Llamapants86
    Llamapants86 Posts: 1,221 Member
    I would log and be ok with heading up to about maintenance levels, a good run before hand and that will give you close to 900 cals to enjoy for your birthday (assuming you have it set to loss 1lbs/week and you burn about 400 cals in exercise).

    ETA: and you didn't cheat anything!
  • dunnodunno
    dunnodunno Posts: 2,290 Member
    Why are you considering it a cheat day? Why don't you fit your cake & whatever else you want to eat in your calories for the day? You could also exercise to gain more calories for your birthday & then plan more foods you want to eat.
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