Is having a cheat day 1x per month OK if you're very obese (srs) (WILL REP)

[kippp3]

Hey guys

So I'm 5'11 and weigh about 126 kg (272 pounds)

I have very little muscle on me since I've been lifting weigh not seriously and very rarely for several years

I am planning to start cutting now (eating 1800 calories which for me is about -500) and am planning to perhaps exercise more/weighlift at home with my bar


Would it be OK for me to eat whatever I want (basically pig out) once per month as a cheat day?

[luzz223]

No fukin way




Month?

[csaesthetics]

why not form a habit of consistent health and increase the time between binges?

[kippp3]

no fukin way




month?

lmao

[kippp3]

why not form a habit of consistent health and increase the time between binges?

Yeah that's what I mean by cutting and exercising/lifting weights. What do you mean by increasing?

[luzz223]

lmao

You got fat as fuk cuzzzzz... what happened?! lol

[csaesthetics]

Yeah that's what I mean by cutting and exercising/lifting weights. What do you mean by increasing?

instead of 1 month, why not 2?

[eatyourspinach]

Flexible dieting.

[kippp3]

You got fat as fuk cuzzzzz... what happened?! lol

I don't know. I guess I stopped caring.

[kippp3]

instead of 1 month, why not 2?

I see what you mean brah

[luzz223]

I don't know. I guess I stopped caring.

You still coming up with weird Tyrone scenarios ( I think that was your alter egos name.. right? )

[DoULikeDaggers]

Cheat day? No. Cheat meal? Maybe, if you don't plan on going overboard. Not to be a dick, but your self control prob isn't that great considering you're obese, so you're more likely to fall into your old eating habits.

[kippp3]

You still coming up with weird Tyrone scenarios ( I think that was your alter egos name.. right? )

My story got a movie (straight version)

[luzz223]

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My story got a movie (straight version)

Ohhhh lawd lol

[TsarChasm]

You will be alright if you eat good 85% of the time and work out 5 days a week.

On my last cut I drank a ton of beer and ate like crap 1 day a week and still dropped 30 lbs and got shredded. People are too anal when it comes to dieting. If you are counting cals and hitting your macros 6-7 days you are gonna make it.

[jordanb1234]

Having your entire month revolve around one day where you are able to binge is a sure way to develop an unhealthy relationship with food. You will undoubtedly fail if you insist on eating clean foods all month round with the exception of one day. Then you'll end up beating yourself up about it and completely giving up with your weight-loss goals.

Take it slowly. Start by hitting the gym on a weekly basis until that becomes an ingrained routine. Then start tracking your calories and making sure you're consistently in a deficit. It doesn't matter if your diet isn't perfect and there's still junk in it... just be in a deficit.

Then when you're comfortable with a consistent exercise routine and with calorie counting, think about tightening it up a bit by doing some form of flexible dieting/IIFYM where you take more care over your carb, protein and fat intake.

Then when you've really got the ball rolling... you can worry about having the "optimal" diet. But if you try to do everything perfectly from day one, you will fail miserably. Trust me, I started and stopped a million times before I got consistent.

[kippp3]

You will be alright if you eat good 85% of the time and work out 5 days a week.

On my last cut I drank a ton of beer and ate like crap 1 day a week and still dropped 30 lbs and got shredded. People are too anal when it comes to dieting. If you are counting cals and hitting your macros 6-7 days you are gonna make it.

Thanks man
ran out of reps before your answer so I can't rep you

I'm out of reps for now. Thanks for all the comments

[Godfrd824]

Someone that's obese should not be thinking about strict diets and whether they can have cheat days. Obviously your lack of discipline got you to the weight you're at now, and you think you'll just flip a switch and be able to keep a strict diet?

Instead of setting up a strict calorie restriction, which you will obviously not be able to keep up, try and make small steady changes to your diet.

Start by tracking your calories for a week, and average the amount of calories you consume per day. Then cut 500 calories from your average daily intake. Do this for a week, and then have a cheat day where you can add those 500 calories back for one day. Every week make 1 small change to your diet. Example, remove regular potatoes from your diet, and replace them with sweet potatoes, add a low GI fruit to your diet, or switch from drinking fruit juice to Crystal Light. Don't kill yourself, don't quit because you fuk up one day, just keep going the next day.

You need to retrain your brain, you've spent years getting fat as fuk and building bad habits. It's gonna take years to get lean and replace those bad habits for good habits.

[Hail2DaSkins]

Man it depends on your level of self-control.

I dropped down from 315 to 200 in about 11 months.

I'd stick to my diet hardcore Monday-Saturday. Sunday, I'd go crazy. Straight cheat day. I'd eat whatever I'd been craving throughout the week. Personally, it helped me get through the week without cheating from my diet knowing that I had x amount of days until Sunday when I could eat it.

When your obese and used to eating junk food, it's really hard mentally to think that you have to give up your favorite foods for a long time, it's easy to break mentally. But for me, when I got craving for whatever food, I had a number, "3 more days" and then I can have whatever I was craving. After your cheat day, you more than likely won't feel like eating junk food for a few days anyways.

The longer you eat clean, the worse you feel after eating junk food so you begin to stop craving it just because you know how bad you feel physically after you eat it. Eventually, your cravings for bad food get farther apart and you just keep rolling with your diet.

If you can go once a month, more power to ya. You're better off then I was.

[Represente]

Flexible Dieting (Or commonly known as If It Fits Your Macros) is simply the tracking of macronutrients (protein, carbohydrate and fat) to achieve a body composition goal.

Start with that OP ^

[kippp3]

Man it depends on your level of self-control.

I dropped down from 315 to 200 in about 11 months.

I'd stick to my diet hardcore Monday-Saturday. Sunday, I'd go crazy. Straight cheat day. I'd eat whatever I'd been craving throughout the week. Personally, it helped me get through the week without cheating from my diet knowing that I had x amount of days until Sunday when I could eat it.

When your obese and used to eating junk food, it's really hard mentally to think that you have to give up your favorite foods for a long time, it's easy to break mentally. But for me, when I got craving for whatever food, I had a number, "3 more days" and then I can have whatever I was craving. After your cheat day, you more than likely won't feel like eating junk food for a few days anyways.

The longer you eat clean, the worse you feel after eating junk food so you begin to stop craving it just because you know how bad you feel physically after you eat it. Eventually, your cravings for bad food get farther apart and you just keep rolling with your diet.

If you can go once a month, more power to ya. You're better off then I was.

Thanks for your input. I agree that having something to look forward to helps with cutting as a release

[Hail2DaSkins]

Thanks for your input. I agree that having something to look forward to helps with cutting as a release

You got it man. It was much easier with the method I used, eventually my cheat day volume got less and less the leaner I got and the effect it had on me for 1-2 days after. But for my weeks cutting in the beginning, it was a god-send.

Best of luck to you brethren.

[Austanian]

Stop thinking of dieting in terms of meals and think in terms of a week.

Make sure your calls are in check and ride the waves.

[TooAnabolic]

Are you disgusted with yourself?

You should be.

You're almost THREE HUNDRED POUNDS.

Now you're looking for excuses to justify the behavior that got you in this situation in the first place.

Get the fuk outta here.

[ChiBearsfan]

no way is 1800 calories -500 for someone who weighs 272

it's more than -1000 or you are counting your calories wrong

nothing wrong with a cheat day a month, but a cheat day for you should be eating an maintenance, not everything you want

I would hit 10,000 if I ate everything i wanted - if you are targeting -500, that would wipe out half a month's worth of dieting in one day

[Blockuh]

Only one a day? OP have several cheat meals a day. Need more fat phucks around to make me look better. Thanks again bro.

[kippp3]

Are you disgusted with yourself?

You should be.

You're almost THREE HUNDRED POUNDS.

Now you're looking for excuses to justify the behavior that got you in this situation in the first place.

Get the fuk outta here.

youre jacked as fcuck

[kippp3]

Only one a day? OP have several cheat meals a day. Need more fat phucks around to make me look better. Thanks again bro.

lold

[immune18]

Someone that's obese should not be thinking about strict diets and whether they can have cheat days. Obviously your lack of discipline got you to the weight you're at now, and you think you'll just flip a switch and be able to keep a strict diet?

Instead of setting up a strict calorie restriction, which you will obviously not be able to keep up, try and make small steady changes to your diet.

Start by tracking your calories for a week, and average the amount of calories you consume per day. Then cut 500 calories from your average daily intake. Do this for a week, and then have a cheat day where you can add those 500 calories back for one day. Every week make 1 small change to your diet. Example, remove regular potatoes from your diet, and replace them with sweet potatoes, add a low GI fruit to your diet, or switch from drinking fruit juice to Crystal Light. Don't kill yourself, don't quit because you fuk up one day, just keep going the next day.

You need to retrain your brain, you've spent years getting fat as fuk and building bad habits. It's gonna take years to get lean and replace those bad habits for good habits.

This man is correct. Nobody has the will power to change their diet that much that quickly.

[barbariancase]

cheat days can turn to cheat weeks pretty fast man, trust me it's not worth, it's like smoking a cig and then saying you're not going to do it again. If you want to eat junk that's fine, just eat within your daily caloric intake, but take it from a dude that's been doing cheat days for a long time, it's the start of failure.