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would it be ok to have one day a week where you can just pig out and not watch what you eat or do you think thats a bad idea? My brother is very very fit and thats what he does, and i've heard people say its good also because it gets your cravings out of your system making it easier to stick with your plan the rest of the week.

leah
 
Bad idea, you can do enough damage in one day to negate your progress for the whole week. The term your refering to is "cheat meal" not "cheat day" - Have 1-2 cheat meals per week but still stay within your calorie limits, don't stuff yourself.
 
i agree. cheat meals, sure go for it. but not the whole day. i'm sure some ppl do it and get away with it and have no trouble but i wouldnt recommend that to the majority.
 
You can have one day where you let your diet get dirty...but you still need to keep everything in moderation and watch total calorie intake so you don't go too far over what you'd eat on a 'good' day.
If you're good all week and build up a 2500 calorie deficit, and then sit down and eat a whole boston creme pie on Saturday, you've just un-done your entire week's dieting efforts.
 
Remember a full size Pizza Hut stuffed crust has nearly twice as many calories as some people would burn from running a marathon
 
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:rolleyes: ...lol, ok maybe pig out was the wrong word to use i guess i meant to say cheat meal...I have my norm. good day plus two big bowls of cereal and a salad. Or i have a good day but add in a candy bar and a bag of chips. Anyway, yeah cheat meals once in awhile's not bad i guess providing i dont go all out right.

leah
 
I would see no bad reason in the occasional pigout. Just watch the calories and saturated fats. Everything else in the healthy foods is just like protein and vitamins and minerals.
 
One day is not going to kill everything through the week. The idea behind the cheat meal is for psychological reasons. If his nutrition is in check 6 days out of the week, then he'll be fine. In fact, if his activity level was high, then he could even get by with some junk foods as long as he was maintaining X number of calories.

I'm going to say it-calories in/calories out.
 
I generally agree with you Evo, but there are poeple who can and will eat 5,000 calories on their cheat day, and that would put a damper on weight loss.

however, its probably a pretty small group of people that go to that extreme.
 
malkore said:
I generally agree with you Evo, but there are poeple who can and will eat 5,000 calories on their cheat day, and that would put a damper on weight loss.

however, its probably a pretty small group of people that go to that extreme.
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This is true and the argument on this is prob insignificant. I'd say that a person might at the most hit 3000 calories above maintenence and this wouldn't even hit gaining a pound of fat. I only mentioned that one day would be fine if it kept an individual on their clean calories six days through the week. The other thing is it might actually have the benefit that caloric zig-zagging does and stoking the metabolism.

But, as you said, most people who mind their diet aren't generally going to go all out on a "cheat day."
 
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