How Bad is it really to have a cheat meal?
I understand, it's good to treat yourself to a nice treat once in a while
but in what amount should it be??
I felt I worked so hard to let it all go to waste,
So what's a good amount to eat your delicious delicate?
And How Often?
A cheat meal isnt going to kill your goal path, when one is educated and smart in the basic and advanced concepts of the rules that are required for fat loss.
The most important thing, IMO, when you are wanting to lose fat tissue, is keeping your sanity,
but playing within the known and understood basic rules and concepts.
Personally, I view "
not being able to control one's cheat meals" as the more powerful killer and potentially damaging to one's fat loss goals.
However, a few "calculated cheat meals" are not going to kill one's fat loss quest,
when its under control within the known and understood basic rules and concepts of fat tissue loss.
With this said, if "a few calculated and educated implementations of cheat meals" becomes a "facilitator of undesirable habits" and/or a trigger that tends to excessively break the rules and concepts of fat loss, then get rid of it...period; "it's handing you an ass whoopen" in your fat loss quest by controlling you,
instead of you controlling it within the confinement of the basic rules and regulations of fat loss.
The above (when reading comprehension is spot on), is the main reason, I press "education" in the basic concepts of fat loss.
These concepts can provide the tools to work with various items within one's diet (that are not "necessarily" that great to consume), and still stay on track with one's fat loss quest.
When one is fine tuned in the understanding of the calorie requirements, basic knowledge of good food consumption, calories in certain foods, calories burned during certain activities, and become educated in the "good" dieting concepts
(such as Berardi's 90-10 rule), a person becomes armed with making plans within their life to handle many, many, different things that would "possibly" knock them off their goal track.
With what you know about your personal calorie requirements (BMR, with what you do at work, and training), how do you think you could "plan" for these "cheat meals", keep your calorie requirements, and stay on track for weight loss?
Best wishes,
Chillen
, in my first post. With what you know about the basic and advanced methods of fat loss--(concerning your personal particulars), what are your plans? If you need assistance, I can try to provide it.