can I EVER cheat???

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  • JasonUMcDaniel
    JasonUMcDaniel Posts: 17 Member
    I'd love to "cheat" but everything i've read says no food rewards. It is a diet after all. Once i hit my target weight. I may start eating things i want to eat, but when i do it will be in moderation and only on days that i get a big workout.
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    ds6099 wrote: »
    Op here. You guys gave me great advice! I miss my ice cream but will try to incorporate it as part of my calories on the OCCASION :)

    I eat ice cream every day ...it's not that many calories ...
  • AspenDan
    AspenDan Posts: 703 Member
    I had a big piece of cake tonight..this sort of thing doesn't happen often, but when it does, I just appreciate the happy feeling of eating cake and move on =)
  • jennifer_417
    jennifer_417 Posts: 12,344 Member
    It's calories in, calories out. Weight loss will depend on the amount of calories you take in.
  • Duchy82
    Duchy82 Posts: 560 Member
    If you love your ice cream just fit it in your calorie allowance, i have ice cream regularly i just pick the slightly lower calorie flavours/brands and follow the guidance on the tub for a serving weigh it on my scale and eat. Although i had some lovely chocolate salted caramel haagen dazs ice cream (quite high calories for a serving) yesterday but I'd been very active during the day do it fit in.

    Sorbet is another alternative, fewer calories than ice cream same satisfaction :)
  • jesseyboo
    jesseyboo Posts: 11 Member
    YR
  • jesseyboo
    jesseyboo Posts: 11 Member
    YES! YES YOU CAN CHEAT! anyone who says otherwise is an idiot. And don't even call it cheating. Enjoy whatever you want. Listen to YOUR body! You know how much junk food is enough etc. I just ate 8 Oreo cookies and had burger king last night with a large soda and a Hershey pie.I don't eat like that all the time. So do whatever you want. Everything in moderation
  • Soopatt
    Soopatt Posts: 563 Member
    I try to have smaller amounts of what I feel like and still fit it in my calories, but lets face it, sometimes you need a giant slice of pie or a good run at the buffet. I have only had two days where I have eaten over calories (and then, significantly over) in the 4 months I have been doing this and it felt like the right thing to do at the time so I did it, no cheating involved.

    It did however, take me two weeks in EACH INSTANCE to get back on track after those days. 4 weeks of extra hard work to make up for 2 days of big eating. I can see me doing it less often, now that I have done the math.

    I am 40 and eating at 1200, so it takes a while to shave off the extra to make up for a big indulgence, so your individual experience may differ (I can't cut back to 900 a day without keeling over, at most I can cut back to 1100 and manage), but you do have to remember that with great pie, comes great responsibility.
  • Soopatt
    Soopatt Posts: 563 Member
    Oh, and I must add - the only way my strategy works is when I log every single nibble and gulp taken during those over-indulgent days so that I know what I need to make up for. Pretending it didn't happen? That is a strategy that baffles me.
  • natboosh69
    natboosh69 Posts: 277 Member
    edited July 2015
    rabbitjb wrote: »
    Your calorie defecit is best viewed across the week

    A eat a couple of hundred under your defecit each day Mon to Fri and on Saturday you have an additional 1000 calories to burn

    There's no cheat in that

    But it may be the scope you need for a night out

    Yeah, I do this so I can still have treats but it's not cheating.
  • OldAssDude
    OldAssDude Posts: 1,436 Member
    ds6099 wrote: »
    Can I EVER overeat and still successfully lose weight? Such as a weekend indulgence?

    Sure...

    Just make sure you do enough cardio to burn the extra calories that you are eating those days.

    Oh wait...

    That would not be cheating then would it?

    Never mind...:)
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