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Old 01-20-2006, 12:19 PM
RoryL RoryL is offline
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What you are describing is what is inherently wrong with absolute thinking when it comes to dieting. Once you blow it, you really blow it and the calories can get out of control, you feel guilty and fat, and feel like you've just erased all of your progress.
Instead of going weeks on end w/o cheating, build a cheat meal into your diet plan. I would stay away from an entire cheat day, though. Limit it to one or two meals a week. Or eat what you want for 5 or 6 hours once a week, then resume your normal diet pattern. Yes, eating whatever you want for an entire day can hault your progress. A meal or two isn't going to hurt all that bad, especially if you've created enough of a caloric deficit throughout the week.
An ideal cheat meal...whatever your little heart desires. Plus, if you add it into your program as a planned meal, you're less likely to feel guilty about it. Adding to that, consider the flip side...someone who was a lazy ass who didn't exercise and ate like crap all week. One day they decide that they are going to make some changes. They get up, eat one or two good meals, then head to the gym. Later that night they cannot fight the urge to eat bon-bons while watching Opera. They decide, heck with it, it's too hard, I'm not going to exercise or eat right anymore. Now, how much weight do you think that person lost for that half day they ate right and exercised. How much difference did it make. Not much. So go ahead and have a cheat meal here and there and don't feel guilty for doing so.
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