To cheat or not to cheat

Go for it.

When I first started losing weight I didn't do cheat days, but once I started getting closer to my goal weigh I incorporated a cheat meal and like the video said its good psychologically and metabolically.

This is probably not what others want to hear, but since I was in hospital in February and had to start dieting I have found it hard to eat my way up to the recommended daily allowance. Sorry :-)

However, one thing I have decided is that finding my weight has gone up a little instead of down (or just not going down) is not too serious. The important thing is to eat more carefully and for the general trend to be downwards.

Having given up fried foods and sweets and chocolate - at first I would not touch any of those at all. I am starting to make myself unpopular in the office as I keep talking about the foods I can't eat any more.

More recently I have started to acknowledge that eating one piece of cake or one chocolate is not going to kill me. What was doing the damage was to be eating so many of them - all the time.

So if you feel happier by eating a little of something you really enjoy once in a while, I would say go ahead. Just be aware you might be undoing some of your hard work, which you will have to do again. If you are content with that, then enjoy.

The psychological help given by the occasional treat is probably well worth it.