How often do you do cheat days/meals?

daedae171
daedae171 Posts: 247 Member
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For some reason(Feel free to judge), whenever I do a full on cheat day every 2-4 weeks, I get right back on track the very next day down to my caloric deficit and I actually see BETTER weight loss and fat loss results a week after the cheat.

Am I the only one that does this? And how do you do your cheating for better results?

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  • leanjogreen18
    leanjogreen18 Posts: 2,492 Member
    I eat maintenance once a week and make up a deficit the other 6 days. Sometimes I go over a little on that day I see an immediate drop in weight.
  • thisonetimeatthegym
    thisonetimeatthegym Posts: 1,977 Member
    Maybe because I don't do diet gimmicks (clean/Paleo/low carb/low fat), there is no cheating. Even if I go over my calories for the day, it's set low anyways and it's less than what I'd be having otherwise.

    Plus you can indulge without going all out wild - have pizza, AND a large salad. You are not going to be able to eat a ton of pizza even if you wanted to.

    Want chocolate? Have a half of a Skor bar. All the taste, just 100 calories.

    Breakfast out? Have the eggs benedict if you want to, hollandaise and ham too, just eat one of them, not both. Talk a lot and drink water and coffee. You'd be stuffed, because you lengthened the time to eat and filled yourself with lots of liquids.

    If I know I want some ridiculously high calorie dish, I just do low cal the rest of the day. Or have a low cal day the day before.

    This is probably horrible to the clean eating camp, but eating food is an enjoyable experience. Sometimes food is just fuel - you're hungry and you need to get your work done. Eat as healthy as you can those times and eat deliciously the rest of the time, paying attention to calorie counts.
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    I don't, I fit whatever I want to eat into my weekly calorie/macro goal
  • JeromeBarry1
    JeromeBarry1 Posts: 10,179 Member
    Following days when I eat too much, I get back on the program and for the next few days the temporary excess of water and sodium drains away making it appear that I'm losing weight quickly.
  • Angela937
    Angela937 Posts: 514 Member
    I allow myself once a week to cheat on a meal. Which for me means just going over on calories since I'm not following any particular diet.

    This helps me from feeling deprived all the time, and I stay on track better throughout the week.
  • watts6151
    watts6151 Posts: 905 Member
    Currently on 1 cheat meal/day per week
    Going to have to up it every 4 days to
    Prevent fat lose from stalling soon
  • salembambi
    salembambi Posts: 5,585 Member
    I ate a tone of *kitten* yesterday ....I've been eating at a deficit and then having one day where I eat more usually Saturday for a while now


    Kinda over it .
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  • MsBuzzkillington
    MsBuzzkillington Posts: 171 Member
    If you aren't the only one who does this, I'll be surprised. Sounds kind of crazy.
  • singingflutelady
    singingflutelady Posts: 8,736 Member
    I allow myself to eat things I enjoy on a regular basis so no need to cheat

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