Please stop calling it a "cheat meal!"

kavahni
kavahni Posts: 313 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Can I get an amen?
Food sustains us. Food delights us. Food bedevils us. But food is what powers our bodies. As humans, we are not meant to eat the same number of calories every single day of our lives. It's not normal, it is not natural. Allowing ourselves to eat the wonderful things that we love is not "Cheating." We are not bad.
Just sayin'.
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  • Seffell
    Seffell Posts: 2,244 Member
    I agree with you, OP, 100%.
  • KrazyKrissyy
    KrazyKrissyy Posts: 322 Member
    Define cheat meal? I have food allergies that give me rashes and other symptoms, yet every once in a while I give in by eating something I'm allergic to because I miss being able to eat it when I was younger. My skin and digestive system pays for it later though...
  • tequila5000
    tequila5000 Posts: 128 Member
    Hey I like the idea of calling it a "no logging day". good idea!
  • Evamutt
    Evamutt Posts: 2,725 Member
    Amen
  • Momepro
    Momepro Posts: 1,509 Member
    Mouse_Potato wrote: »
    I am guessing OP would not approve of the "Late Night Secret Binge" category in my food diary. :lol:

    Haha! I just group those under "bedtime"
  • Rosie_McA
    Rosie_McA Posts: 256 Member
    I call it the weekend.
  • nyponbell
    nyponbell Posts: 379 Member
    I don't like the terms "cheat meal" or "treat meal" or even "no logging days" (but mostly because I'm just getting back into logging and going a whole day without it seems like a bad idea for me right now). I do have a category in my diary for "treats and snacks" but I consider them to just be part of my life, on the days that I do eat something that falls under that category. I think the term "treat meal" for me makes it sound as if I'm depriving myself when I'm not treating myself, which is not the case.

    I do think that 'cheat meal' is a rather common name for it and everyone gets what people mean and that it will probably stay.
  • MontyMuttland
    MontyMuttland Posts: 68 Member
    If you've committed yourself to a diet plan in order to lose weight and you decide to throw it aside for one meal/one day/whatever, then you have cheated on the diet plan, it's really that simple.
    Call a spade a spade, why hide from what you're doing? Do you want someone to congratulate you for failing to stick to your resolve?
    Then next time you're about to cheat, ask yourself do you really want to stay fat?
  • inertiastrength
    inertiastrength Posts: 2,343 Member
    MontyMuttland wrote: »
    If you've committed yourself to a diet plan in order to lose weight and you decide to throw it aside for one meal/one day/whatever, then you have cheated on the diet plan, it's really that simple.
    Call a spade a spade, why hide from what you're doing? Do you want someone to congratulate you for failing to stick to your resolve?
    Then next time you're about to cheat, ask yourself do you really want to stay fat?

    If you're still progressing towards your goal over time, I really don't see how that's cheating but like I said in my earlier post I'm not terribly bothered by language.

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