Being good all week then cheating on weekends?

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  • lewiswinston22
    lewiswinston22 Posts: 13 Member
    Long as you not going over youy daily calories in take. I see nothing wrong with eating that slice of pizza on the weekends or whatever satisfy your craving. I think it’s bad to eat a 100% healthy than when you get to your goal weight and you can’t maintain that lifestyle and you go back to your bad habits.
  • amyepdx
    amyepdx Posts: 750 Member
    edited May 2018
    Deleted posted on wrong thread!
  • tomorrowperfume
    tomorrowperfume Posts: 67 Member
    It's really interesting reading what everyone has said about eating back a whole week's deficit with one big cheat weekend. This is certainly not the case for me; I've found that if I keep a 500 calorie deficit each day throughout the work week, I am just not capable of eating an additional 2500 calories over the weekend. This might be different if I was a heavy drinker, but I'm not.

    And since my weekends are for chores, I tend to me more active than on weekdays. I suspect that mowing the front and back yards in the Texas heat would make up for the occasional sleeve of Double Stuf Oreos. Not that anyone's interested in cookies when they're covered in a layer of dirt and sweat.
  • apullum
    apullum Posts: 4,838 Member
    You are not "being good" if you choose to eat less food (and similarly, you're not "being bad" or "cheating" if you choose to eat more food). You are simply eating or not eating in ways that promote one or more of your personal goals. Your body's metabolism also does not care what day of the week it is. Where weight is concerned, your body only cares how many calories you take in and how many you burn. If your average calorie intake is less than your calories burned, you will lose weight. If it is greater than your calories burned, you will gain weight.

    You sound like one of your goals is to have one or more days each week of eating more than usual, and another of your goals is weight loss. If you can eat more on some days yet maintain an average calorie deficit for the week, then those goals aren't at odds with each other. However, if you want to be able to eat so much that you are no longer in a calorie deficit for the week, and/or you want to not track your food on the days you eat more, then suddenly those goals conflict. You have to decide which goal is more important to you.
  • butterfli7o
    butterfli7o Posts: 1,319 Member
    This is exactly how I stayed stuck in maintenance....for a long time.
  • amyepdx
    amyepdx Posts: 750 Member
    butterfli7o wrote: »
    This is exactly how I stayed stuck in maintenance....for a long time.

    Same here - 1 year in fact when I still have 22 lbs to goal.

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