[Daki]

Originally Posted by Lyla

As it is a cheat for me, is actually part of my diet. I eat low carb 6 days and 1 day i have to eat high carb to refill the glycogen in muscles. I eat ANYTHING!!!

Yup! Same here, fun isn't it? Hehe =)

[Kahokkuri]

I generally give myself the weekends off but I think I'm going to change this system to two cheat meals instead. Rather than being bad all day Friday and Saturday, I'll instead choose two meals during the week–they'll probably still fall on Fri and Sat, realistically–to cheat. I'm hoping this encourages me to not let the weekends be such a waste!

[flourless]

Originally Posted by FreeBird3

Do you allow yourself 1 cheat day per week in order to not feel deprived? Or how about just 1 cheat meal per week? Or do you eat clean non-stop?

When I say eating "clean", I'm talking about whole foods and not eating processed foods...basically, eating fruits, veggies, beans, low-fat or skim dairy, and fish.

By that definition, I don't eat "clean" at all. My days usually include sugar, starch, meat, full-fat dairy, processed foods (and a healthy amount of fruit/veg/usually beans/sometimes fish)

For those of you that cheat, does that hinder your weight loss journey or do you find that having a cheat day or meal once per week actually allows you to NOT end up going on an all out binge.

I've been losing a steady 2lb per week. The two weeks I took completely "off", in the sense that I paid minimal attention to my diet or exercise, I lost 1.6lb. I'm calling that "not hindered" because I don't want to lose weight faster than that.

As for me, I just started eating clean as of last Friday. I've been doing great so far, but today I cheated by ordering a cheese pizza. At least it was just a cheese pizza and didn't have any additional toppings on it.

For eating clean - how is cheese pizza better than pizza loaded up with every vegetable topping they serve? I went from ordering pizza to either ordering pizza and making salad, or ordering two family-size salads for every pizza. There's usually pizza in the house for about three days.. but it makes a popular breakfast!

[Karig89]

I recently started counting calories and I'm on 1400cal per day or roundabouts. I wouldn't call it cheating if I have a handful of tortilla chips for example. I just make sure a weigh a portion and add it to my food journal. I have what I want but I weigh it, have only one portion and it's part of my daily allowance. As long as I stay within my numbers and I do my work out I find I can enjoy mostly anything (in small moderate portions) and I don't feel deprived.

I've been loosing steadily since I began counting calories-something which I'd never tried before!