Those who've been at this awhile... do you get sick if you cheat?

If you have small quantities of the foods you want to cheat on everyday or once a week, your body will get use to them and tolerate them better when you do have them in a larger quantity. I can remember as a teen having a very low fat very low sugar diet for about 6 months and one day I broke and had an ice cream cone after being very strict for so long. I had stomach pain for hours after.

These days I have a more 'everything in moderation' so I don't get sick from ice cream anymore.

Do you get sick if you cheat?

No.

1) I don't cheat.
2) I include a variety of foods in my diet.
3) I do take planned diet breaks every so often ... every 16 weeks when I first started, and more frequently since reaching my goal. While I do eat more on a diet break, I don't go overboard. I don't like feeling full and just simply don't want to go overboard.


However, that said, there are certain foods that don't sit well with me.

Milk/cream in very small amounts is OK, but it doesn't take much to upset me. I can have one mocha coffee with whipped cream on top, but two will upset me. I can have a very small container of chocolate mousse or pudding, but anything more than that will upset me. And if I have a dinner with garlic bread and real butter, an alfredo sauce, and something with cream/ice cream for dessert ... you'd better clear a path to the toilet because I'm on my way!

Peanut make me feel really bloated and gassy.

Tree nuts loosen me up. If I'm ever constipated, a good handful of tree nuts will clear that problem right up.

And mushrooms and peppers leave me feeling queasy with indigestion.

So, maybe you've got a list of foods that don't sit well with you.

Yes if I eat a large quantity of food I get a stomach ache. Usually I only allow myself a cheat meal but even then I have had stomach distress from it. I'm kind of glad because it means I have gotten my stomach back down to a normal size which is why I now feel full much faster.

Nope. Fried foods, sweets - none bother me.

When was your first cheat meal after you start your diet

I don't get physically sick from junk food and going off my diet, so much as mentally sick :P (Guilt)

Not so much as a cheat meal/day as I just eat what I like but, I do find that if I eat a few days of very high fat (not uncommon around new years as a lot of the common dutch new years celebration foods are deep fried) it goes straight through me. So I try and hit the right balance of enjoying myself without needing to run to the toilet too much, sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't.

Just eating unhealthier foods occassionally? Generally, no I don't get sick.

Working out after eating too much candy/pizza/chips/etc? I feel a bit sick TBH. I think that I feel better during my workouts if I eat nutritious foods- which for me is another plus because my body is keeping my accountable.

I agree with other posters about things tasting super sweet or super salty now that my palate is changing but I don't feel sick- I just don't enjoy eating those food types as much anymore.

Once I ate a butter tart from a local shop and it must have been 800 calories half of which were from butter and I felt like I had a little brick in my stomach for a couple hours lol. Okay fine it was 2. That would have made me feel off on any given day though lol

3dogsrunning wrote: »

ijsantos2005 wrote: »

Yeah, it was definitely a thing for me in the past when I avoided highly processed foods.

It was an issue in the past for me too. Usually because the highly processed food I was avoiding usually contained a lot of fat. Whenever I would diet I would cut fat. If you cut your fat intake then have a high fat day, you may experience some stomach issues.
The same goes for any big change in diet. People even experience issues when they suddenly add a lot of vegetables.

Now that I keep my fat intake higher, I don't have those issues anymore.

Yep.

Happened to me when I was a teen and was put on a very, very low fat diet - it was for performance and not to lose weight, but that doesn't matter. When the competition was over and I tried to eat normal foods again I had awful gastrointestinal issues. I'm talking foods I had no trouble with before and were not particularly high fat. Most things I readjusted to in a couple of months. For some reason, steak in particular was a big problem for me. It was a couple of years before I could eat a single serving and not plan on a long restroom visit in the next 30min - but as I said, I was on a very restricted diet.

I don't "cheat" I just have days where I eat/drink more than usual (on weekends or with friends usually) and I've noticed if I overdo it and eat really fatty foods, I feel awful, and once I got very sick (but that was a lot of alcohol too lol). My stomach can't handle all the calories/fat anymore!

I banked calories usually I do around 200 and make it for five days so I would have 1000 for weekends to eat sometimes I banked more if I know that there was occassions ahead. Just plan out dont make a binge is the key

I have gotten that way with any fast food - I think it's my body not being used to the grease in it. I am still able to eat candy because I never cut that out completely, but I stopped eating fast food for several months. I'm okay with that though because I don't really feel the urge to eat it either.

You have to re-evaluate how you're looking at this. You can't look at this as a diet period diets suck your miserable they don't work and that's why people fail at diets. You have to look at this as a lifestyle change it's a learning process and you have to educate yourself on how your body works and react and what you can and can't do. Also remember that MyFitnessPal guidelines are just at their guidelines based on a large population density and everybody's going to vary.

Let me give you my perspective January first 2016 my weight was 288 pounds. My current weight is 208 pounds. I've been maintaining at 2:08 for the last 8 months. During that time I've been on vacation three timesperiod once during my weight loss face and twice during my maintenance phase. During my vacation. I ate whatever I wanted I drank whatever I want it there were days I probably drink my calorie limit alone.

iPad no regrets as far as overeating or binging it's just a mental attitude and I know how to do it I know the consequences I choose to do it because I'll be honest with you those three trips if I had to give them up I don't know if I could keep on maintaining and keep on doing this. As crazy as this sounds losing the 80 pounds was one of the easiest things I ever did. It wasn't a chore or anything like that I had fun doing it the same thing with maintenance

I get sick if I eat anything that I strictly cut out of my diet for more than a month or two. Milk? Yes. Cheese? Yes. Bread? Yes. Meat? Yes. Gas station danishes? Yes. Soda? Yes.

I don't assume these foods were bad, just that I seem to grow accustomed to their absence and reintroducing them annoys my belly.

That said, there are some foods I do better without as far as day to day energy levels, hunger, and mood are concerned. Such as those aforementioned gas station danishes.