Change Cheat Days to Treats to Maintain Your Diet Progress
Everyone loves the idea of cheating during the day that dieting is fun if you don’t have the ability to put yourself at risk of cardiac arrest every Saturday ( quadruple bypass hamburger who?) While they can help you diet during the week, they can also mess with your progress. … Solution? Change the way you think about them.
As compelling as the research behind it is, I often see dieters undercut all week’s progress by misusing them. Of course, what matters most of the time is what you do most of the time, but if what you do in this minority is enough to survive the winter, you just end up winding up your job. According to fitness trainer and kinesiologist Kia Khadem :
After I started tracking my cheat days, I realized that the extra calories only on Saturdays made up for all the hard work and discipline I put in during the week and then some. Mainly because I limited what I was allowed and did not allow me to eat for a week to keep my carb levels low or eat “clean,” I ended up falling into binge drinking that fed the entire NHL team in during the week.
So if the scales don’t budge (and you suspect the dozen donuts you ate last Saturday may have played a role), try this: Reimagine cheat meals as incentive dinners. A simple exchange may be enough to allow you to enjoy a well-deserved break without fueling the compulsion to overwork. So you can eat your metaphorical and literal cake and eat it too.
Two Steps Forward One Step Back: How Cheat Days Ruined My Fat Loss | kiakhadem.com
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