Contemplating Cheat

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  • LeonCX
    LeonCX Posts: 862 Member
    Contemplating allowing a Cheat Day once a month or once a fortnight
    and wanted to get some your opinions or thoughts ...
    You'll get 50% yes's and 50% no's on this popular topic, no doubt.
    I vote yes. PS Just what is a fortnight anyway? :embarassed:
  • Mischievous_Rascal
    Mischievous_Rascal Posts: 1,791 Member
    Contemplating allowing a Cheat Day once a month or once a fortnight
    and wanted to get some your opinions or thoughts ...


    Lost 11.9 Ibs (5.4 kilo) in several weeks and know its good to take a day every now and then to
    appreciate foods etc that might otherwise be taboo for your new life style ...

    Alternatively you could not have any taboo foods and just allow those foods into your new lifestyle in small and/or infrequent amounts - as long as your weekly calorie level is around your goal, you will still lose weight.

    Exactly. I tried to do cheat days but it didn't help me with my relationship with food, at all. Today's menu was chocolate, pizza and tacos...all without cheating on anything.
  • funchords
    funchords Posts: 413 Member
    I can remember crossing paths with a person i considered to look extremely fit and healthy
    and after chatting a while learnt that they are very strict 6 days a week and 1 day a week eat what they feel like as a reward etc ...
    The body doesn't have cheat days, so you're cheating on your log, not your body. Instead, just log accurately.

    Don't be strict any days. Just log what you eat, read your logs, listen to your body and your wants and your schedule, and adjust.

    If you want more pizza, add some pizza. If you go over on a Friday night, go a bit under on the next two nights. Your body doesn't reset at dawn.

    It is no worse for your metabolism if you go over 300 one day, be on target the next, go under the next two, over the next one, etc. Just average out to your target and you'll lose weight at about the predicted rate.
  • MsWendyjc
    MsWendyjc Posts: 63 Member
    I can remember crossing paths with a person i considered to look extremely fit and healthy
    and after chatting a while learnt that they are very strict 6 days a week and 1 day a week eat what they feel like as a reward etc ...
    The body doesn't have cheat days, so you're cheating on your log, not your body. Instead, just log accurately.

    Don't be strict any days. Just log what you eat, read your logs, listen to your body and your wants and your schedule, and adjust.

    If you want more pizza, add some pizza. If you go over on a Friday night, go a bit under on the next two nights. Your body doesn't reset at dawn.

    It is no worse for your metabolism if you go over 300 one day, be on target the next, go under the next two, over the next one, etc. Just average out to your target and you'll lose weight at about the predicted rate.

    Actually i'm not cheating anything .. it was merely a curious post for opinions on others and a passing thought ..My progress has me wanting to stick to what i am doing and i am logging everything ..

    My body feels good and its inspiring to keep on the right track :)

    Its good to have the opinions of others all the same and to know that calories can be adjusted over the week if need be ....

    thank you
  • MsWendyjc
    MsWendyjc Posts: 63 Member
    Contemplating allowing a Cheat Day once a month or once a fortnight
    and wanted to get some your opinions or thoughts ...


    Lost 11.9 Ibs (5.4 kilo) in several weeks and know its good to take a day every now and then to
    appreciate foods etc that might otherwise be taboo for your new life style ...

    Alternatively you could not have any taboo foods and just allow those foods into your new lifestyle in small and/or infrequent amounts - as long as your weekly calorie level is around your goal, you will still lose weight.

    Exactly. I tried to do cheat days but it didn't help me with my relationship with food, at all. Today's menu was chocolate, pizza and tacos...all without cheating on anything.

    Friday here and i would normally enjoy a drink but haven't for just over 2 weeks ... your menu sounds divine but i'll stick to whats working for now and adjust other foods in as i go :)

    Thanx
  • MsWendyjc
    MsWendyjc Posts: 63 Member
    Contemplating allowing a Cheat Day once a month or once a fortnight
    and wanted to get some your opinions or thoughts ...
    You'll get 50% yes's and 50% no's on this popular topic, no doubt.
    I vote yes. PS Just what is a fortnight anyway? :embarassed:

    A fortnight is 2 weeks :)

    And your right its split 50% / 50% :happy:
  • MsWendyjc
    MsWendyjc Posts: 63 Member
    Me and my wife do a cheat DAY every Saturday.
    We intentionally go over our calorie limit. I have lost 67 lbs in 2 months and my wife has lost 16 lbs in 2 months.

    Thats an awesome loss!! well done to you both:flowerforyou:
  • BlueBombers
    BlueBombers Posts: 4,064 Member
    Hell, I have cheat meals/snacks all the time. I just love food way too much, can't justify torturing myself by not being able to eat the things I love (in moderation of course). Just make it fit into your day.

    I've lost 60 lbs and am now at maintenance and it's worked for me.
  • SlimJanette
    SlimJanette Posts: 597 Member
    Don't restrict yourself or else you will binge. I would bank so many calories burning the week so on sunday I could have a DQ Blizzard.
  • H_Factor
    H_Factor Posts: 1,722 Member
    I don't agree with the concept of cheat days as a reward. A cheat MEAL, at times, is fine. There is actually a pretty good scientific reason for cheat meals or cheat days .... increasing Leptin levels. Leptin is important in the fat burning process and eating gets the Leptin hopping. In fact, you want to know what works really well....Having a cheat day (not a crazy day, but one where you indulge some) to jump up your Leptin levels...and then do a 24ish hour fast (drinking only water...lots and lots of water). That's how you become a fat burning machine :)
  • MsWendyjc
    MsWendyjc Posts: 63 Member
    Hell, I have cheat meals/snacks all the time. I just love food way too much, can't justify torturing myself by not being able to eat the things I love (in moderation of course). Just make it fit into your day.

    I've lost 60 lbs and am now at maintenance and it's worked for me.

    I love food as well .. and i don't feel i am being tortured because of the reward :)

    no doubt at some stage i will splurge but for now i have one thing in mind ...

    Thanx
  • MsWendyjc
    MsWendyjc Posts: 63 Member
    Don't restrict yourself or else you will binge. I would bank so many calories burning the week so on sunday I could have a DQ Blizzard.

    Eating a good variety of tasty foods and hopeful of controlling any binge :)


    Thanx

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