I'm pretty much a health nut since I eat a low fat/carb diet Sun. thru Thurs. and I'm a gym person (weights/cardio) Mon.- Sun. Is is okay to have a cheat day or two? I'm thinking about Pizza on Fri. and Chinese on Sat. and return to my diet on Sun-Thurs.
2007-03-26 04:56:21 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diet & Fitness
Not only will it not hurt you, but it will probably help you. If you put too many limits on yourself you will most likely act out and binge. By giving yourself a cheat day, you will ensure that you eat healthy the other 6 days of the week.
2007-03-26 05:04:18 · answer #1 · answered by poohb2878 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is certainly ok to have a cheat day every now and then. There are two main reasons why this is desirable. The first is that when many people begin to start dieting and exercise they often radically change thier diets. This isn't necessarily a bad thing considering many people are frequent visitors to the drive thru at their local fast food joint. The problem is that by cutting out all the foods you like, your cravings will grow and grow until one day you're likely to gorge yourself. One day can quickly turn to two, and two to three and so on. Before you know it you're back to square one or even worse.
By allowing yourself a cheat day, you're giving into the desire to have your favorite pizza without feeling guilty about it. This is good because you are much less likely to gorge yourself and fall off track.
A second reason it is good is because cheat foods like pizza actually do have some nutritional value. Junk foods like potato chips and ice cream are essentially empty calories. Pizza on the other hand, albeit fattening, does contain cheese, meat, bread, veggies, etc (depending on your toppings). Plus, especially with low carb diets, your body will have likely depleated its carb stores throughout the week through exercise. Allowing yourself one cheat day helps replenish your carb stores, which will result in your energy levels to be up for the week ahead.
So I would certainly recommend taking a cheat day every now and again. Just make sure that you don't stuff yourself pointlessly. Take the time to enjoy every bite. This will not only allow you to savour the treat more, but it will prevent you from overeating. Hope this answers your question!
2007-03-26 05:12:17 · answer #2 · answered by Jeffrey K 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it's called Cheating, you are not making a lifestyle change, you are on a diet, and they have been proven time and time and time again not to work.
Eat a sensible way that you can manage for the rest of your life. Yes - eat pizza and chinese if you enjoy them. Because if you deny yourself these things, that will only backfire.
You just have to make them fit in with what you know to work for you. So don't call it Cheating - call it eating!
2007-03-26 05:05:40 · answer #3 · answered by RF 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have a cheat meal, not a cheat day. I used to do that, the whole cheat day thing, It only made it hard to get back into eating right on Monday.
The pizza, just do a veggie pizza or a mushroom.
Eat almonds too.
2007-03-26 05:10:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It won't hurt you. I mean, it may not allow for you to lose weight but I'm sure you'll maintain the weight you're at. As long as you don't overindulge and gorge yourself, a "cheat day" won't hurt you too much. You may, however, want to limit yourself to a cheat day every two weeks, or something similar. And make sure that during your "on" days, you don't cheat at all. A disadvantage to cheat days is that your body is getting the foods that you're craving, which increases its craving for them.
And now I'll let you form your own conclusions. :]
2007-03-26 05:03:20 · answer #5 · answered by a_digitaldreamer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can still eat the things you like while still not eating totally unhealthy.
For example, get the vegetarian pizza (which has vegetable) and skip the fried Chinese food and get something like steamed dumplings and the mixed veggies.
2007-03-26 05:25:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
whilst my scholars in exams cheat, they continuously cheat with somebody substantial than them in the event that they want to get an A. in the event that they cheat with somebody lesser than them they get D and this hurts very lots. So, cheating with lesser is worst, particularly with scholars.
2016-11-23 16:49:28 · answer #7 · answered by herzog 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is no problem with eating these foods just as long as you burn the calories off .. as a healthy way to lose weight is eat what u want however you do have to burn of more calories than you eat ... but i guess one day with no exercise and junk food does our mental health good =]
2007-03-26 05:02:22 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its not HORRIBLE, but all it does is encurage you to go back to eating unhealthy
2007-03-26 05:03:53 · answer #9 · answered by Alice 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋