cutting and cheat meals??

[wnt2bBeast]

Have a question for the diet gurus..What is the deal with cheat days or cheat meals? I have been trying to bring my BF down for the past 16 weeks..things have been going relatively well. Im very strict with my diet i write down everything i eat cals/pro/carb/fats everyday every meal!!Occasionally i will give myself 1 meal to eat whatever i want pizza, chinese, mcd's..I havent had one in 3 weeks but last nite i ordered some general tso's ate almost the whole thing plus the egg roll!! I ate this in addition to all my protein but less carbs and fat than normal.this morning woke up did my cardio plus had my bfast and i seem more vascular as well as defined?? I am still quite a ways away from my goal of 6-8%, currently around 13-15 i think?? Just looking for some rationale on this phenomena lol, maybe its all psychological!! thanks

 

[wnt2bBeast]

no opinions or similar experiences?

 

[JKurz1]

And two days later, when the sodium kicks in, did you notice a blur in the definition? Always used to happen to me.....thats why I've totally eliminated the "cheating" game........

 

[bran987]

1 cheat meal every 3 weeks? knock yourself out in my opinion.. jkurz.. the sodium will dissipate when returning to a normal diet over the next few days.. no?

 

[wnt2bBeast]

And two days later, when the sodium kicks in, did you notice a blur in the definition? Always used to happen to me.....thats why I've totally eliminated the "cheating" game........

No never seems to happen its now monday and no change for the worse!!

 

[JKurz1]

1 cheat meal every 3 weeks? knock yourself out in my opinion.. jkurz.. the sodium will dissipate when returning to a normal diet over the next few days.. no?

SUre it does..........just makes for a really long day.........

 

[Shame247]

The problem with cheat meals is that it's like opening the door just a CRACK and that junkfood basically kicking the door down and swamping you LOL..

Take me for instance: I made up my mind last Sunday to start dieting again...I went through the whole week perfectly then came the weekend. I was going fishing with my dad on Saturday so I said "ah what the hell I'll eat a couple bacon egg & cheese sandwiches with him in the morning as a cheat"....well that morning-only cheat turned into "damn it's 2pm on the boat and there's a box of cheese nips"....THEN that evening I'd been eating junk all afternoon so I said "fuck it I'll just eat a pizza tonight"....THEN THAT TURNED INTO SUNDAY and "Oh fuck it I'll just start over again Monday"

LOL....get the point?

So now I'm stuck back where I started from, starting over today (Monday) and feeling guilty and fat as shit. So basically the moral of the story is: Cheat meal is ok once in a while.....but you better have the will power to back it up.

 

[wnt2bBeast]

The problem with cheat meals is that it's like opening the door just a CRACK and that junkfood basically kicking the door down and swamping you LOL..

Take me for instance: I made up my mind last Sunday to start dieting again...I went through the whole week perfectly then came the weekend. I was going fishing with my dad on Saturday so I said "ah what the hell I'll eat a couple bacon egg & cheese sandwiches with him in the morning as a cheat"....well that morning-only cheat turned into "damn it's 2pm on the boat and there's a box of cheese nips"....THEN that evening I'd been eating junk all afternoon so I said "fuck it I'll just eat a pizza tonight"....THEN THAT TURNED INTO SUNDAY and "Oh fuck it I'll just start over again Monday"

LOL....get the point?

So now I'm stuck back where I started from, starting over today (Monday) and feeling guilty and fat as shit. So basically the moral of the story is: Cheat meal is ok once in a while.....but you better have the will power to back it up.

thats the thing its subjective..I eat just about the same thing everyday..I am very strict i have been dieting for 16 weeks now and while i may have a cheat "meal" it never turns into a day of binge eating..If i have pizza i will eat 2 slices but i will make sure that my other 5 or 6 meals are perfect

 

[Shame247]

See I don't have the will power for that lol....Which is why I'm better off not even looking at the junkfood and going 3-4 months straight without a cheat meal b/c once I get a TASTE of something, I'm like a coke-fiend lol....

 

[MrMakaveli]

You'll want to cheat when doing long term dieting, espeically more than you currently are. Rationale is, during long term dieting leptin drops. When this happens your basically metabolically fucked and muscle loss will increase, fat loss will stall and you'll get EXTREME cravings.

Basically on a cheat day when you flood the body with food one day a week or so, you basically burn off a TON of those calories throgh heat/leptin increasing and you'll store most of it in your muscles (ala CKD refeed) so it's really quite a good thing