Cheating on Cutting Diet

[wake_up]

I eat a 2000 or 2500 calorie cheat-meal about every 2 to 3 weeks, it could be a big cream of wheat made with 2 or 3% milk, along with some cuban bread, and cake. Or it could be a whole frozen Digiornio Pizza (since pizza is one of the junk food with lowest calories), i mean u could get a lot more calories from burgers, and fried foods.

I've noticed that a whole digiornio pizza only has 1500 calories, that's a lot less calories than eating out at a restaurant, going out to any Wendys etc. in which is the case u could get 5000 calories

So to sum it up, my cheat meals are made of 2000 to 3000 calories which is not much really

wake_up

Do you have a cheat meal once a week, a cheat meal 2 times a week, a cheat day, or never cheat?

Also when you cheat are your vices carbs or fat?

 

[jassdhali]

I have a cheatish meal once a week - and it always have to be sugar based - dont know whether my diet is lacking summat..Still havent succumed to alcohol since March of this year though.

 

[housemusik83]

pizza, cheesecake once in a while coffee ice cream, those are my cheat foods

 

[sonicwaste]

I just listen to what my body is telling me. This is how I decide when to have a cheat day or a cheat meal. And I decide when to take a break from heavy dieting and cardio.

When cutting or bulking I follow the same method. Only difference between my bulking diets and cutting diets are calorie intake and macros. I eat the same foods regardless.

But when my body tells me I need to carb up, I carb up for a day. I don't count my calories or macros on carb up days.

When my body tells me I need a cheat meal, I eat a cheat meal. But it is never more than 1 per week while cutting. Never more than 2 per week when bulking.

Sometimes I will do a full on cheat day. But rarely ever more than 2 times per month. I typically save these for special days, birthdays, events, etc...

The sometimes I will quit dieting for a week or two and eat like a normal healthy person.

I feel like all of these serve a purpose both mentally and physically. They always seem to have extremely great benefits. Cheat days and cheat meals seem to give my metabolism a supercharged boost, same with carb ups. Taking a week or two off of the diet is more of a mental reset, but also resets me physically and seems to produce a super effect when I start back on my diet.

Important thing is to keep them controlled and only do them when you have been operating at 100% and know you can go straight back to 100%. This is important.

My cheat meals, days, carb ups, and time off always have supplementation of r-ala, cla, and sesapure.

As far as foods go, here are my favorite cheats:

total cheats: pizza, taco bell, chocolate chip pancackes, donut, indian food, gyros, blizzards, biscuits and gravy

carb up/refeed cheats: sugary cereals (golden grahams, cinnamon toast crunch, cocoa krispies), smartees, powerade, TCBY frozen yogurt, wheat bread, jello pudding sugar free fat free, starbust occasionally

 

[navigatorrs]

I have a cheat day on Fridays!!!

 

[InGreatShape]

I have a cheat day, usually on one my rest days.

 

[djboots]

One cheat night and one cheat meal.....Saturday night Beer Beer Beer......then Sunday one meal usally big mac large fry and 8piece nuuggets...yum yum. Otherwise all week long clean clean clean foods

 

[venomouss]

No cheat for me.

 

[saucemoney]

4 pancakes w/ butter and syrup
1 tuna melt with fries
6 pieces of fudge
1 bag of Milky ways
1 bag of Reece's peanut butter cups
4 dounuts, 10 donut holes
4 slices of french toast, w/ sugar and syrup
2 tuna sandwhiches
1 burger with fries
1 roast beef wrap with chips
2 beers
10 or so.. caramel NIPS
1 slice of pinapple cake
1 pork BBQ sandwhich with chips
1 protein bar
2 peanut butter and jelly sandwhiches
3 poptarts

LMAO, that is one hell of a cheat day!

 

[Underw0rld]

I do a whole cheat day. I find by the end of the week I'm completely flat and low on energy. So, I do a carb replenish just working back in dairy and other simple carbs without getting out of hand eating a bunch of shit or drinking alcohol. I usually look like I put on 10-15lbs of muscle after my muscles fill back up.