Cheat days

your doin good, I'm gonna take ur advise! obviously, I've been cheating in the past ....that"s why I gota lose lots of weight. One day at a time! Ur doin good!

I don't believe in the concept of cheat days and I'm reconditioning myself so that I don't believe in diets. Most people tend to go on a diet to lose a certain amount of weight and the deprive themselves but once they hit that weight, they go back to their old ways. I trying to teach myself to have a lifestyle change. To learn how to make healthier choices as well as portion control. I don't want to deprive myself and I don't want to feel deprive. If I want to have a beer, eat pizza, ice cream, etc, I do it! I just make sure that I log my calories and I try to make sure that I stay under my calorie goal for that day and if I go over, then I know that I need to do an extra workout to compensate.

Look at people who are "skinny" they don't deprive themselves of junk food, so why should I. As long as their is portion control and moderation I will be fine. I am learning to have control over what I chose to eat or not to eat. Even WW allows people to eat junk food, there is a point value for it and all people have to do is account for that value.

For me, the key to my success will be to eat healthy/healthier but to also allow myself to eat the food that I want and like (within moderation) so I don't feel deprived. Once I feel deprived I go on a binge and I don't want that to happen.

what I recently started is on a particular day a week that I set aside and look forward to, I have the 3 bite rule(yup 3 normal bites of what I'm craving)..sounds super silly but for me it works lol and as it turns out, I end up really not "cheating". .. it seems since loosing weight my cravings have really changed :-)

genius! sounds like a brilliant idea! hope i have th willpower to stop after 3 bites.....:)

No. Not ever. By allowing yourself to cheat, you allow yourself to fall into the same bad habits that you had before you started. I refuse to sabotage my progress by allowing myself a momentary lapse in good judgement from the trail I've blazed over the past 3 months.

The only time I will allow myself to eat simple carbs of any kind (on a keto diet) are if my grandmother cooks them. Even then, it's not so much that I want to eat the carbs, it's that she doesn't understand my commitment, and it's easier for me to take one for the love of family than leave her feeling disappointed. For the record, this has not happened yet. I generally only go to their house for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter.

Besides, you need something that you can live with. I made steaks, mashed cauliflower with garlic, creamed spinach, and macaroni and cheese with miracle noodles (0 carbs) last week. Most of my favorite comfort foods, and they all fit within my lifestyle.

So you're saying you stuck 100% to your diet since you started?!?!?! you never had a little something?

Just so you know I also did low carb with a cheat day once a week, consuming over 200 carbs and sometimes consuming 400 grams of carbs. Just so you know when you do low carb for a while you will develop an impared thyroid.. which will slow down your progress. This is one of the reasons I had a free day, to combat that.

Just had my first cheat day. I wasn't planning on it. I logged in my breakfast lunch and dinner like always, but I took my daughter shopping and she wanted to stop and get a soft pretzel. We never get stop and get anything but we did today. I logged it and now I'm over, but not by much. I would exercise it off but I'm watching football on tv with my family. One day won't kill me and tomorrow is another day.