Cheat days?
emilyrosebecker
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Hi all. I've been doing really well along the way, especially this week! Yesterday I was fine until my parents invited me to dinner, obviously I said yes. I skipped the gym and went to dinner where I ate garlic knots, soup, and pumpkin ravioli . I have no desire to log these items ... Really don't wanna know how many calories I consumed over my daily goal. My question for you all is - how damaging was my one cheat night to my weight loss ? And do you all have cheat days? Lol thanks for the support!
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As long as you've been doing well, don't sweat it.0
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I don't do "cheat", because I'm not doing anything wrong. If I happen to go over, I go over. Log them, even if you don't want to and move on.0
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I do allow myself some slack now and then to eat more than I should. I still log what I ate. Accountability n'at. Refusing to acknowledge, accept and take responsibility for how much I eat is what got me to 320 pounds. That can't continue if I want to get to my goal of 175.
Refusing to write it down won't change the truth. Writing it down will help you when you want to look at your overall eating trends and learn from them.0 -
Write it down, own it, move on0
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Thank you guys! I appreciate it0
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Liftng4Lis wrote: »I don't do "cheat", because I'm not doing anything wrong. If I happen to go over, I go over. Log them, even if you don't want to and move on.
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Eating delicious food is not cheating.0 -
If your data is incomplete then its kinda useless imo. I go by weekly goals so not
logging one meal would throw off all the data. Plus if you dont log you will never learn the calorific value of things for maintenance.
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Why don't you log it and see? What's the point of not knowing...of logging only some foods and not another? If you log it you have data, and if you have data, you can understand your rate of loss and it can help you with your future goals (maintaining, gaining, fitness, macros/micros).0
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Liftng4Lis wrote: »I don't do "cheat", because I'm not doing anything wrong. If I happen to go over, I go over. Log them, even if you don't want to and move on.
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I just log the best I can.
I usually know when there is a high calorie meal coming up so I have time to get in some extra exercise.0 -
How damaging was one delicious meal?
Dunno... go log it & see.
But even if you really gorged and had 3000 calories, that's only 1 lb.
What are you "cheating" on?
If you're on a diet, that's something temporary, and the gains you make will be too.
If you're changing your eating & exercise habits for good, for the rest of your life, then you need habits you can
live with. Eating delicious food is something I can live with. How 'bout you?
Just do it in reasonable portions.
Overdoing once in a while isn't going to be a problem. Doing it frequently will be, esp. if you don't increase exercise.
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Log it! It won't be as bad as you imagine. Then look at your week as a whole.0
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I would log it the best I could and then get on with life. I expect those sorts of things to happen sometimes - for example, today some friends are coming over and they're bringing the food, so I couldn't do my normal routine of pre-logging and planning my meals.
But whatever happens today, happens today. One bad day won't make me fat anymore than one good day will make me thin. The trick isn't to never have bad days, it's to never allow bad days to stop you from trying for good days.0 -
Log it! It won't be as bad as you imagine. Then look at your week as a whole.
I agree! One day will not ruin you unless you take the attitude of "I screwed up, might as well give up!" It will be likely that over a weeks time you will have eaten at maintenance or better yet you are still in a deficit for the week. Either way, any small gain you might have will be quickly replaced with a new low!0 -
Of course, if you don't log it, it means you never ate it, so I totally understand her reasoning.
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I never do a, "cheat day" (a day with unlimited calories) as that can usually run a whole week of work. But every once and awhile I'll give myself a meal where I don't count calories. It's the only thing that's kept my sanity in this journey.0
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"Really don't wanna know how many calories I consumed"
"My question for you all is - how damaging was my one cheat night to my weight loss ?"
Really?
How are we supposed to know.
*No One* can possibly know without the missing data you "don't want know", right?
You can't win at this through denial.
That never works.
Never.
Denial is a loser's game.
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Thank you to everyone who commented positively! That's what these boards are here for ...0
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let it go and move on.
Normally i'd say log these things, but at this point what's done is done whether you log it or not. Move on and let it go instead of letting it get to you.0 -
Asher_Ethan wrote: »I never do a, "cheat day" (a day with unlimited calories) as that can usually run a whole week of work. But every once and awhile I'll give myself a meal where I don't count calories. It's the only thing that's kept my sanity in this journey.
I do the same thing! I feel like it really works for me as well.0 -
I personally had only one cheat weekend (3 days) in the 9 months I have been loosing weight , because I went to Vegas.
During that time, I gained almost 9 lbs due to water weight, so I am particularly scared to try that again.
Everyone is different though.0
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