cheat meals/ day

[Bman00]

With a lot of posts recently concerning these, I just wanted to share my opinion or idea on these. I've read many posts on people freaking out and feeling guilty over cheating and I believe as many others that u shouldnt cheat if ur gonna feel guilty and try to compensate. With a cheat meal thats one meal out of a bunch of meals in a week. And even if u have a cheat day ur clean the rest of the week. By cheat day Im talking about just freely eating like a normal person not doing a binge day like some of the cheat masters of the cheat thread. But still those who have a massive cheat day usually only do it like once a month and they know it really wont effect them. I'm just trying to say that a day of normal eating once a week will not kill you , think about the rest of society that eat like this every day and u r doing for 1. Plus it will help u work harder. This is just my opinion and I'm not trying to start a debate just trying to help some out. Peace

[Staberella]

I enjoy my cheat days. When I first started the body for life challenge since the program encourages a "free day" I went hog wild for the first couple of them. I learned really fast though that you feel like total hell the next day if you overdo it*lol*. Now on my free days I eat whatever I want but in small portions. For example instead of a whole whopper jr. I'll eat half and maybe finish the other half off a couple of hours later, or I'll have a mini portion of chicken parm and pasta and if I want some Jr. mints I'll have a couple instead of polishing off the whole box. Supposedly cheat days shocks your metabolism and keeps your body from hitting a plateau. Whether that's true or not it hasn't hurt my gains and losses any.

[garbage cutters]

I enjoy my cheat days. When I first started the body for life challenge since the program encourages a "free day" I went hog wild for the first couple of them.

yea speaking of that, this has been my second 'cheat/refeed' i usually do a refeed and throw in a cheat meal somewhere in the same day, but i ate like a whole half a box of nature's valley oatbran cereal i was just craving carbs to the max..it could have been worse i guess but my energy levels go through the roof on my cheat/refeed days

[rob86]

I don't know why people have cheat days. Eat what you want as long as it fits into your daily calorie goal.

[garbage cutters]

i dont have a cheat day, i include a small cheat meal in my re-feed day

[DWhealthy]

i use the only meal/day that I eat red meat as my cheat meal...
something like:

ribeye
seasoned fries
steamed veggies
salad
diet coke

......basically a meal at the local Chili's or Black Angus

[garbage cutters]

i use the only meal/day that I eat red meat as my cheat meal...
something like:

ribeye
seasoned fries
steamed veggies
salad
diet coke

......basically a meal at the local Chili's or Black Angus

red meat is a priveledge, not a cheat man..

i recently bought some organic new york buffalo steaks..can't wait to throw those babies on the grill

[DWhealthy]

red meat is a priveledge, not a cheat man..

i recently bought some organic new york buffalo steaks..can't wait to throw those babies on the grill

hahaha...i hear ya. But I stopped eating red meat. only once a week now. So I use that same meal to get the things I mentioned ..like fries...hahaha

buffalo steak sounds real nice. I like deer meat too.

[KingWay]

I enjoy my cheat days. When I first started the body for life challenge since the program encourages a "free day" I went hog wild for the first couple of them. I learned really fast though that you feel like total hell the next day if you overdo it*lol*. Now on my free days I eat whatever I want but in small portions. For example instead of a whole whopper jr. I'll eat half and maybe finish the other half off a couple of hours later, or I'll have a mini portion of chicken parm and pasta and if I want some Jr. mints I'll have a couple instead of polishing off the whole box. Supposedly cheat days shocks your metabolism and keeps your body from hitting a plateau. Whether that's true or not it hasn't hurt my gains and losses any.

Half a whopper Jr. What a Badass **rolleyes** X 10

[Dashik]

LOL.. So many topics about cheating Let's talk about helthy eating.. LOL

[Npeart]

Cheat days are not such a good idea. Rather employ cheat meals. For example, my girl and I have a Friday, eat-whatever-the-hell-we-want, night. For me it's pizza. She changes it up every week and eats whatever. And after that we go and eat FF frozen yogurt. It keeps us sane while dieting and it gives our metabolisms a nice blast.

[Dashik]

Cheat days are not such a good idea. Rather employ cheat meals. For example, my girl and I have a Friday, eat-whatever-the-hell-we-want, night. For me it's pizza. She changes it up every week and eats whatever. And after that we go and eat FF frozen yogurt. It keeps us sane while dieting and it gives our metabolisms a nice blast.

Deffenately agree. I think cheat meal is much more better than a cheat day, but you know it can be difficult to say stop and continue clean diet, that's why I think it's better to avoid often cheating.. May be 1-2 meals per month - IMHO..

[DWhealthy]

Deffenately agree. I think cheat meal is much more better than a cheat day, but you know it can be difficult to say stop and continue clean diet, that's why I think it's better to avoid often cheating.. May be 1-2 meals per month - IMHO..

yeap. thats what I do. just one meal. I did the whole day thing once and I actually felt sick.

[S2theITO]

I love Cheat meals. I used to be on the Cheat day thing but like others have said, you end up feeling like crap in the aftermath. I usually have my cheat meal on Fridays following my workout for lunch. I head over to Subway and get like 2 footlong subs on whole wheat bread (Sweet Onion Chicken Teriaki, loaded with veggies). That may not sound like a cheat meal for some, but I'm happy after eating it.

I rarely eat sweets and desert crap during a cheat meal though. Last time I had one of those cheats was when we went to Dairy Queen a month ago and I got a Large Blizzard.

[Mr. Barnes]

Cheat, cheat, cheat, cheat cheat. Isn't it crazy that most of the great tasting foods are bad for you? WHY IS THIS???? WHYYYY?? lol

Now, before someone replies with, "I love the taste of natural, clean foods," I would like to say I do to. But damn, sometimes it's hard for clean foods to compete with a large pizza followed by some ice cream. Or nachos, or tacos, or reeses, or doughnut, oreos, AAAAAHHHHHH!!!

Oh well, back to my oat bran. Mmmmmmm.

[armz_ha]

cheat meal day= 4-6 healthy meals+ 1 cheat meal

meal 1: 400 calories oats + eggs/whites

snack: 300 calories whey shake

lunch: 500 calories yams + chicken breast

snack: 300 calories whey shake

dinner(cheat meal): 15-2500 calories of whatever you want

before bed: 200 calories cottage cheese with a fruit

Total 1 cheat meal day calories= 4200 calories







one whole cheat day= 4-7 cheat meals

breakfast: 1000 calories(* sugary cereals)

snack: 600 calories(*chocolate bars)

lunch: 1000 calories(*burgers +fries)

snack: 600 calories(*1/2 bag of chips)

dinner: 1200 calories(*steaks, pizza, pasta)

before bed if hungry: 500 calories(*2 doughnuts)

Total cheat day calories= 4900 calories




To me, a cheat day always ends up to be about the same amount of calories at the end of the day so i'd rather have a cheat day. The thing to remember is cheat day SMART!

[garbage cutters]

usually i will have a small cheat meal in my refeed days where i carb up


the reason i do this is because i feel less guilty about the excess calories i am consuming to let the cheat meal make me feel bad

another reason why i think it is good to do it on a refeed day is because early on when you are eating more food before your cheat meal, you are less likely to binge on something unhealthy

i personally found that a lot of cravings for carbs/sugary/junk food can be alleviated by simply refeeding (eating maintanence or slightly over in clean/complex carbs) just feeling in a 'full' or 'fed' state really hampers the urge to go bonkers on junk food and you feel less guilty


and if you really want to avoid the guilt trip, implement this on a day where you workout your weakest body part

[MattM]

With a lot of posts recently concerning these, I just wanted to share my opinion or idea on these. I've read many posts on people freaking out and feeling guilty over cheating and I believe as many others that u shouldnt cheat if ur gonna feel guilty and try to compensate. With a cheat meal thats one meal out of a bunch of meals in a week. And even if u have a cheat day ur clean the rest of the week. By cheat day Im talking about just freely eating like a normal person not doing a binge day like some of the cheat masters of the cheat thread. But still those who have a massive cheat day usually only do it like once a month and they know it really wont effect them. I'm just trying to say that a day of normal eating once a week will not kill you , think about the rest of society that eat like this every day and u r doing for 1. Plus it will help u work harder. This is just my opinion and I'm not trying to start a debate just trying to help some out. Peace

i agree. ive eaten clean for the last week and a half. had a cheat day today.. took in about 7500 cals. i dont feel guilty about it at all. i know the weight ill gain tomorrow will mostly be water weight and after a few days of clean eating it'll be gone and ill get back down to my normal weight. its all good. cheat days rock.

[matthor]

i have a 4 day w/end away with mates which will equate to 4 consecutive cheat days haha, but ahh well.

[miss_carrie]

well ive been cutting for 4 weeks now and i had my first cheat meal. probably about 3000 calories and its at night too, but whatever. probably brought me up to around 4500 for the day. and i dont feel guilty my weight loss has stalled the past week or so and i was getting really hungry so if anything im assuming this helped me out.

i think i might make a cheat meal like this a once per month thing. once a week would be ridiculous (well, for me at least), once a month sounds good.

[armz_ha]

i think i might make a cheat meal like this a once per month thing. once a week would be ridiculous (well, for me at least), once a month sounds good.

that is only like cheating 12x per year.

[Rachel_n_SD]

i sorta stopped having cheat days because the urge is too great to go on a humongous binge.. definitely cheat meals are better, i prefer making dinner my cheat meal so i eat healthy the whole day, and then am too full to eat more afterward, i find that if i try to make breakfast a cheat meal, i end up saying f*uck it for the rest of the day, and then spending the next 3 days feeling like crap and trying to rid myself of the water weight.

IMO, for people like me who tend to binge on cheat day, i think its better just to allow some "bad" foods in moderation during the week, to eat 90% clean all the time, instead of 100% clean and then a day of total piggin out.

[armz_ha]

IMO, for people like me who tend to binge on cheat day, i think its better just to allow some "bad" foods in moderation during the week, to eat 90% clean all the time, instead of 100% clean and then a day of total piggin out.

i allow myself low-fat sweet post-workout everyday of the week. Instead of drinking straight dextrose, i'd rather have yummy sugary low-fat whole food carb sources.