Do you take cheat days?

I do all the time,, just go work it off.

Right now almost everything is a cheat day. I have my settings at 2 lbs a week which is roughly 1000 calories less per day. If I go over a bit, I don't worry about it, but I log everything and try never to go over by 1000 on any given day. That way, even on a "bad" week, I can still loose a bit of weight. If I was perfect and was always under or met my calorie goal, I would probably eat a calories heavy cheat meal but still log it. If you know the numbers, you can make better decision.

No. This is my lifestyle, why would I "cheat"?

I'll have days where I go over my calories, especially if I eat out, but I keep to my weekly deficit to compensate for it.

I just started tracking my calories, and I have the same question for everyone. Do you have a cheat day or meal each week? And do you accurately record it or fudge? I really would like to have a cheat day every week.

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ILiftHeavyAcrylics wrote: »

I don't cheat, I just eat in such a way that makes me happy so I don't feel like I need to cheat.

For me I feel that if you need to cheat you're doing it wrong ..,

I agree with this...

Also, everyone once and a while it is good to eat more calories than you would in a normal day to boost your metabolism, but it should still be healthy foods you're eating when you do that.

Like others have said, I don't think of them as "cheat" days since I'm not doing anything wrong and I definitely don't feel bad about it. I am a lot more relaxed about what I eat on my weekends, I try to aim for maintenance calories although there have been times when I go even above those. I try to focus on the big picture. I didn't get to be 85 lbs overweight because I had a calorie heavy meal or even day, I'm here because I had MANY meals/days/weeks where I was eating way above even my maintenance calories.

I log accurately (or as accurately as possible) every day - even days when I'm WAY over my calories. I personally don't see the point in fudging, if I'm going to fudge I might as well not enter anything.

I do sometimes but i feel really guilty after!

I try to stay on track until I need to take a cheat day (usually more like a cheat MEAL), such as when I want to go out with friends for happy hour or something. And I don't ever feel guilty about that, because I refuse to let my diet/lifestyle change impact my social life. If it is, then I need to take a step back and reevaluate if I'm being too serious or ridiculous about it. You're still allowed to go have fun - eat the fries, and drink the beer once in awhile!

I may eat over my calories but it's not cheating. It's just eating over it. I log it and move on. I don't usually eat much under but it's just choices.

I have a cheat "meal" not a cheat "day"(Still call it my cheat day to make it easier to clarify haha) and usually it's okay as I have calories left over from the rest of the week to still stay under my goals.

I think it's important to indulge once in a while, it stops you from binging on other days. You just remind yourself that it's two days to cheat day (as an eg) and you're more likely to not fail that way.

A handy trick is to always see your calorie limit as a weekly rather than daily thing. If you're even 100 calories under every day you then have 600 extra calories per week for your cheat day

I hate the cheat meal/day concept. So no, I don't have a cheat day or cheat meal. But there are days that I consume substantially more than usual. It all balances out.

I try to eat normally just either smaller portion sizes for less calories and yes I still have cheat days do not think I would be able to stay with it without them but I exercise all the time so I just burn it off thankfully.

I had one today and I did log it and I feel gross. On occasion I allow pms get the best of me and go for sweets. Drinking a lot of water to feel better