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Originally Posted by mel67
This is the sole reason I not only count calories, but I also give myself one "cheat" day a week IF! the scales are down. As long as I keep it to just ONE day, it does not hinder my weight loss at all. As you've read, some can do this, some can't. I have something to look forward to, and my chances of going off program and cheating for days in a row, are FAR less. The only thing that I say "absolute no" to is fried food, and full fat mayo. anything else, I can work in, in moderation. Good luck!
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I started off giving myself a day off too, then I started bringing it down to a meal and a snack. I also don't qualify it with what the scale says, basically because I don't want cravings to turn into out of control eating, or continuously overeating on the days I'm sticking to plan.
I also try to make sure the food choices are pretty much made ahead of time. I don't have a lot of cheat food or tempting stuff on hand.
I have noticed that some very successful people like glory and lilybelle don't cheat much at all, so it may be I will be reevaluating my strategy; it slows down the weight loss, but it's helping me to handle it right now. It's been getting easier to cut back on what I eat on cheat days (not to go over 2300 to 2500; and I'm not to eat anything so that I feel stuffed -- I've been eating small meals so long now it doesn't really take all that much to make me feel stuffed).
I have to say when I'm plugging foods into fitday, to see those cheat foods make those numbers go up, and go up fast, is a good deterrent too. It makes me more conscious of what I'm doing, like putting on the smaller clothes! ha.
I'm still working on all of this.