Debating....(help!)

Can you go from a cheat day to just a cheat meal? This way you at least have something to look forward to.

I eat pizza fortnightly, chocolate almost every day, other "treats" throughout the week, I just fit them into my calorie intake. Personally, if I had a "cheat" day or meal I would feel like I was severely restricting myself during the week which would quite frankly make me miserable. I have learnt to have smaller portions of aforementioned treats than I would previously, or make better choices about them. For example, before I would have a Deep Pan Meat Feast, now I have a Thin crust Chicken+Veg, this cuts the calories per slice (you could just have a small size rather than large etc also if you really like Meat Feast!). Or I'll have a two finger Kitkat instead of a four finger one (even better a couple of squares of dark chocolate and skip the kitkat altogether). This way I can fit most things into my daily/weekly intake and I also find that by not banning anything, sometimes I actually don't have/need the "bad" item at all.

deziray92 wrote: »

queenliz99 wrote: »

Or you could save some calories from your week to save for the weekend.

Does that actually help? I'm usually always under my calorie goal for the day during the week

It's the week total I look at not my daily intake.

if your cheat day is erasing all deficit from the week, you should make the cheat day less in calorie intake. if it seems like you are still in deficit throughout the week, then probably your counting throughout the week is not as accurate as you thought

When do you weigh yourself? Hopefully not Monday mornings.

A whole cheat day? Thats sounds like your problem.
I keep my reward meals to putting me about 400-500 calories over for the whole day **(which usually breaks even, meaning no deficit for that day - I eat what I burn essentially) - and its something that I can easily make up for over the next several days.
I weigh on monday and thats the day I have my "reward meal" or whatever you want to call it - so I have the whole rest of the week to burn additional calories or slightly reduce my daily intake of said surplus spread over the rest of the days.

How much does this day eat into your weekly deficit? - How big of a deficit do you have daily?

Just a side note, cheat meal should not be high in fat and accompanied by alcohol. That can also undo a weeks worth of work...

http://www.muscleforlife.com/refeed/

Honestly it sounds like your 'cheat day' is just a day of 'real life' and nothing wrong with that. BUT if you're eating foods that make you feel sick, re-think that.

2 weeks without weight loss is not automatically reason for concern. You know how everyone says 'weight loss is not linear'? That means you are not going to see weight loss every week even if you're eating at a deficit every week. Why? Because our body is not an efficient machine. It is affected by water weight from TOM/hormones, sodium, stress, sleep disruption, muscle soreness, etc. Could be you are ovulating or on your cycle. Could be your sodium or stress levels have been high the last 2 weeks. Could be a # of other things. Keep going as you are, assuming you are happy with your energy levels/nutrition levels/etc. And just be patient on the scale.

deziray92 wrote: »

My goal is 1,360 cals. But I usually eat around 1200. On cheat days I would say around 1800 cals. I kinda slacked on tracking the last cheat day. Also I weigh every other day first thing when I get up. After using the restroom of course.