Ideas for a cheat meal

What is your definition of a cheat meal? Higher calories than normal? Different food than you normally eat? Did your coach give you any guidelines regarding calories or macros of this meal?

Eat things you like and don't eat things you don't like.

If you want a high calorie meal, one thing you might do is order a pizza. Another is to eat a whole bag of nuts.

Choose your own adventure.

I like to do sushi because you can really decide exactly how much and what you want to get (sashimi for low cal, nigiri for medium, rolls [especially with sauces] for high), so if your definition of “cheat” is to just have something fun, or “eat at maintenance” or “go nuts”, you can make it work regardless.

Mmmmm pizza and wings. Tacos. Nachos. Bacon cheeseburger and fries.

If I wanted to eat a “cheat” meal, I’d go to the Mexican joint down the street and have a basket of chips with a bowl of queso, then order either the nachos with chicken, shrimp and steak (more queso too!) or the Pollo Loco, chicken and rice smothered in queso. Maybe a margarita (or two!)

But I could even make a modified version of that easily for in maintenance calories and not completely blow my weight loss for the week, yet be more than satisfied. I figured out all my extra weight I put on was because I never exercised and had meals like that way too often. I’m learning that a good workout can enable me to still have those higher calorie options, just remember to do splurge like that less frequently. (Had spumoni gelato this weekend. Twice! But I ate within my non workout calorie amounts the whole day and did two pretty intense workout sessions that more than covered the extra calories.)

I can't do a full blown cheat meal, eating foods I wouldn't normally eat. My stomach would protest. So I just eat more of the foods I normally eat and I don't blow it all. I'll just eat a few hundred calories over maintenance if that.