from cheat meal to cheat day

[1wrestler31]

anyone else? i started my day with a cheat meal of 2 donuts. needed up eating 4 donuts and then a whole pizza. that's way to many calories. Anyone else do this? how do you recover?

[moore93]

You look at yourself in the mirror in disgust, realize that food only tasted good for 5 minutes, feel ashamed of yourself, and then start again tomorrow.

And in the depressing of knowing tomorrow and the day after's dieting is doing nothing but burning off what you just f**ked up today, you'll want to binge again.

But realize binging again will just make you even worse. So what you do is just find something else to do other than think about your hunger and drink a lot of diet soda or EC.

Also reading motivational threads like how people treat you different after losing weight, or pics helps.

[O1111]

lol I just had this happen to me today too. I told myself I was gonna eat just 1,000 cals in pizza and factor it into my calories for the day (cutting).

Ended up going "**** it, today is my grand cheat day I never had in a while" and had the ultimate 4,500 calorie cheat meal. Whatever...I already cut to 143, I have some leeway.

[Tommy W.]

If you have the capacity to cheat that bad you need to understand that you'll never get anywhere with fatloss until you're at a point where you just can't imagine doing that again. For now you have to just write it off and understand that you just negated a whole weeks worth of dieting. The worst thing you can do is say "F it" and just keep cheating since you blew it so bad.

Put a photo of yourself in the kitchen either when you were out of shape or one with you when you were lean. Either extreme will be a good motivator to not cheat on your diet.

[O1111]

If you have the capacity to cheat that bad you need to understand that you'll never get anywhere with fatloss until you're at a point where you just can't imagine doing that again. For now you have to just write it off and understand that you just negated a whole weeks worth of dieting. The worst thing you can do is say "F it" and just keep cheating since you blew it so bad.

Put a photo of yourself in the kitchen either when you were out of shape or one with you when you were lean. Either extreme will be a good motivator to not cheat on your diet.

True that. Thing is, i'm the kind of person who if I really want something, i'll do it. I keep getting leaner and more cut every week, so I just got a little over excited about it, lol. I don't have a deadline like a competition so I figured I could get away with it, since i'm already fairly lean at this point.

[Tommy W.]

True that. Thing is, i'm the kind of person who if I really want something, i'll do it. I keep getting leaner and more cut every week, so I just got a little over excited about it, lol. I don't have a deadline like a competition so I figured I could get away with it, since i'm already fairly lean at this point.

yeah you're ok then if this isn't a common occurrence. You figure your cals on a weekly basis so you just have to go lower the rest of the week to compensate.

[Naix]

yeah that's basically why I only do cheat meals at the end of the day. When I do it for breakfast I always end up going all out the entire day and it becomes a disaster lol

[1wrestler31]

yeah that's basically why I only do cheat meals at the end of the day. When I do it for breakfast I always end up going all out the entire day and it becomes a disaster lol

solid idea. I will implement that in two weeks. In the mean time i just need to try and eat clean and eat what i'm supposed to.

[SofiaCally]

I don't have a cheat meal but a cheat day! LOL I eat a LITTLE of everything I want and because I'm not used to eating a lot anymore, I easily get full. At least my cravings are satisfied during my cheat day.

[hossjob]

You need to do some soul searching and re-evaluate your relationship with food.

[BCAshock]

Your not going to gain body fat from cheat days. As long as you have a high energy turnover you should be fine. The weight you see on the scale is nothing more than glycogen stores being filled and water retention caused by excess sodium intake. I binge the whole cheat day and still manage to loose 4 pounds the following week(following weight checked in the morning of cheat day). Obviously your diet throughout the week will have a big impact on whether or not you gain fat. If you diet is clean the whole week you should be fine. Even if you gain some fat it will be visceral not subcutaneous so it will be used up once you start dieting. No worries man

[Tommy W.]

If you diet is clean the whole week you should be fine. No worries man

If your diet the rest of the week has low enough calories to allow the cheat day to still keep you in a big enough deficit you should be fine.......

fixed.