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CHEAT DAY??!!

SkimpyMrsCarter

I was wondering what do your cheat days consist of?? Is it eating whatever u desire staying within your calorie goal? or is it eating whatever u want and not counting calories at all???

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joelrivard

Hmmm, I do think it's a cheat day. How much more evidence do we need that food can be really bad for us. Obesity and type 2 diabeties are higher than ever. Eating a large extra cheese pizza and 1/4 gallon of ice cream with caramel added (one of my cheats) will significantly shorten your life if eaten daily.

HellYeahItsKriss

joelrivard wrote: »

Hmmm, I do think it's a cheat day. How much more evidence do we need that food can be really bad for us. Obesity and type 2 diabeties are higher than ever. Eating a large extra cheese pizza and 1/4 gallon of ice cream with caramel added (one of my cheats) will significantly shorten your life if eaten daily.

To the bolded..

Food in itself is not bad for us.

Obesity is caused by too many calories in and not enough calories out. We make that choice as people. Food does not make that choice. Food just does not come with a "This will make you fat" label and other food does not. You can gain the same amount of weight eating 100 calories worth of broccoli over maintenance as you can eating 100 calories worth of cheese or chocolate or anything else. The same adverse effects of that weight gain will be the same regardless of how healthy the food is.

Diabetes is caused by insulin resistance which is from having excess weight.

Your "Cheat" is clearly excessive. No one is eating this daily unless they have a really server binge eating disorder and these are the things they are choosing to binge one every single day.

If you need to eat a large extra cheese pizza and a quarter gallon of ice cream with caramel as a cheat then you need to look deep inside yourself and ask yourself why you need that. Because no one should need a cheat meal like that simply just because.

maryannprt

I'm another one of those people who doesn't like to call it cheating, but you call it whatever works for you. Since I've started tracking my intake, I've had 2 meals I didn't track at all, Thanksgiving dinner and a dinner at a fairly expensive restaurant with small plates and lots of food sharing... Too much work, both of those days! I do occasionally eat meals I know will put me over my cals for the day. I log it, enjoy it, and move on. I've been losing about 1 lbs a week for about 9 months now, and I don't feel deprived and I do feel like I can do this forever. Good luck!

dimaslopes

i am on keto but i fixed sunday to eat whatever i want or refeed some carbs and since i am cutting i dont go over my calorie intake. obviously i eat only in nice places, since i wont eat much i can try some gourmet stuff once a week. No alcohol by the way.
When i reach the calorie limit i stop there even if i got a single meal in the entire day. if i were on bulk of course this wouldn't apply.

sdolan91

i eat whatever i desire everyday and stay in calorie goal

i consder cheat meals is when i guess stuff to plug in and actually dont weigh it and try to over estimate the calories. - and i try to only limit this to about twice a week or so.

SkimpyMrsCarter

I posted this so long ago and still getting negative feedback off this post, I don't understand why "cheat day" offend so many people but I can carless at this point being that fact that 6 months later I have been very successful with my weight loss journey. Feel better guys. Thanks to all the positive responses I appreciated your feedback.

kshama2001

SkimpyMrsCarter wrote: »

I posted this so long ago and still getting negative feedback off this post, I don't understand why "cheat day" offend so many people but I can carless at this point being that fact that 6 months later I have been very successful with my weight loss journey. Feel better guys. Thanks to all the positive responses I appreciated your feedback.

People stating they don't do cheat days is not negative feedback, it's just people saying cheat days don't work for them.

Glad it works for you.

whhuynh90

french fries and cheese-less pizza. Yes. I said CHEESE-LESS PIZZA! its pretty good, like bread sticks with toppings

and i dont count my calories, I just indulge and enjoy!

and im still losing weight! (im vegan so im limited on my junk options)

Jessie24330

My "cheat days" or whatever you want to call them, consist of me eating like any other day, I always eat what I want as long as it's reasonable and fits in my calories. The difference being that I don't log anything and just try to guesstimate my total. I try to keep it to 1500 calories (mfp has me on 1200, that's with a 1000 deficit), I figure that I'm probably usually within with maintenance calories anyway since I still have a 700 calorie buffer. I usually notice a nice little pick up in my loss after these days and it's a nice break too, so a win-win for me!

JeromeBarry1

I'm still trying to figure out what "??!!" means.

lucerorojo

My cheat day is on Friday. I am able to eat whatever, but I log it. At most I will be 500 calories over my allotted calories, which puts me more or less at maintenance for that day. I found that I did better when I had a cheat day. If I eat treats everyday it starts to get out of control. I'm better off saving it for one day.