Cheating

I try not to have an entire "meal" but occasionally I will treat myself to a little snack that is within my calorie limit. I only have a "cheat" day when I'm with family or it's a special occasion, which is not often.

I never "cheat". I fit items into my macros.
Like Hershey's kisses today. And a slice of homemade birthday cake last night. Moderation is key, and it's not necessary to label foods as "good" or "bad", so that you have to feel like "cheating" to eat them.

Just eat the cookie, pizza, or burger, and balance it with the rest of your day!

I don't cheat. If I want some fries, I will damn well have some. But when I think that I will have to skip a meal to do it (400 cal at In and Out) it really curbs the craving pretty damn fast.

If I cheat, I try to do it by adding in one cheat-type food (ie. cake, cookies, etc). I don't recommend doing it by 'day' because it has had a reverse effect for me. I end up going 2-3 days of "cheat" before getting back on the wagon!

It's all about what works for you!

I personally am incapable of having a cookie after dinner and then calling it a day. If I have one cookie, I will have ten cookies. Therefore, I eat very low cal for most of the week but have one planned "cheat day" during which I eat literally anything I want. The trade off is I have to stay within my 1200-calorie goal for the rest of the week, which is difficult. But, I've tried this weight loss thing a bunch of different ways and what works for me is knowing that I'll always have that one, glorious cheat day to look forward to!

This is what I used to do except I ate about 1400 calories M-F and 3000 on Sat, 2000 on Sunday. Now that I use TDEE -10% and started lifting weights I have more discretionary calories however and don't have to save calories for an effing sweet meal.

Moderation. Add in it to your MFP and work it off with cardio.

i do think you do what you need to do for yourself.

but i would argue the reason you can't stop at one slice of pizza or cookie and therefore you need a cheat day to do it is because you are not really allowing yourself to have it.

if you did not make it the forbidden fruit you would not need 4 slices of pizza or 5 cookies and wouldn't be so tempted. if you know you can have it whenever you want it won't seem so alluring.
it takes time to get there to think about it differently but over time it works...

Pretty rare that I even do what I would consider a cheat meal. Whatever I eat I fit into my daily macros, so I basically don't cheat on that. I do however do carb refeeds 1 to 2 times per week. Normally I keep my carbs under 75g but bump that up to over 300 once or twice a week. Calories are usually 2K but bump up to 2600 - 2700 on high carb days.

Pretty rare that I even do what I would consider a cheat meal. Whatever I eat I fit into my daily macros, so I basically don't cheat on that. I do however do carb refeeds 1 to 2 times per week. Normally I keep my carbs under 75g but bump that up to over 300 once or twice a week. Calories are usually 2K but bump up to 2600 - 2700 on high carb days.

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I do a whole "cheat day" once a week, usually on a Saturday. I don't go out of my way to eat crazy stuff, but I do eat whatever I want. My boyfriend and I usually eat two meals out at a restaurant on those days and there is often ice cream or gelato at the end of the day. We split meals when we eat out, though, because we've found that we're unable to finish a meal at a restaurant since we really started practicing good portion control. I still log everything I eat, and sometimes am pleasantly surprised that I stayed in calorie count without trying. (And sometimes less pleasantly surprised with extremely high overages. Ha)

If we ate 100% clean all of the time, would I be seeing faster results? Probably. But I've still seen progress in my fitness goals, and I like food too much to do that.

(I've also been known to eat bad things during the week as long as they fit in my calorie goals. 200 extra calories at the end of the day? Well then I can eat 3 oreos! Yay!)

but i would argue the reason you can't stop at one slice of pizza or cookie and therefore you need a cheat day to do it is because you are not really allowing yourself to have it.

For me, it wasn't that I COULDN'T stop myself, oh I could, I just didn't want to. If I'm gonna have pizza, I'm gonna HAVE pizza. I love to indulge, and that will slow my losses, I completely am fine with that. When I drink beer, I don't want 16oz of crap light beer. I want at least a 22oz porter or stout. My point is, I can have my life of indulgence, AND still lose/maintain my weight.

I don't consider it binging, or cheating, it's my way of living.

Cheat is a negative word. I find planned splurge to be much more positive.

^ This ^

Because you'll hear people talk about fitting it (whatever it may be) into their macros or whatever. For me a splurge meal is something I wouldn't normally eat because it isn't going to fuel me properly or help me in my weight loss journey. Example: BW3 has killer wings and onion rings. While feasibly I could fit it into my macros to eat a meal there, that would be the only meal of the day and that isn't healthy either so I splurge once a week or every other week and have something I want that I wouldn't normally.

But I log it.

I learned from the best.

I mean reported

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tell SCC I miss them (all except cakes)