what about caribean jerk chicken
example:
about 5-6 oz of jerk chicken of random cuts with skin on
about 1.5 cups of brown rice with kidney beans
the only thing bad i think about this is the oxtail gravy that I get on it.
I get this once per week omg its soooooooo good.
Do you guys consider this a cheat, I see it as an excellent bulk meal.
I would remove this skin on the chicken, other than this it looks fine.
Personally, I do not "concern myself" with what others "think" is a cheat meal. I have a "personal" very solid understanding what this is and what it is not, and how this understanding "aides" my fitness goals.
One can go to the produce section in the grocery store thinking they are eating a good food (and if its a veggie, it is of course), but most of the pesticides that were used (when its not organic) can get absorbed through the skin of the vegetable or fruit, and one leaves the store thinking its pesticide free even when they wash them.....hmmm.....are they really?
To "stay completely" away from (unspecified pesticides on labels and other untitled unacceptables ) within food we eat "commercially" and what is generally available, would lead someone to nearly to starvation. Think about it, and study how things are brought from the growing fields, to the processing plants, and to your local grocery store. It will make your eyeballs pop out.
While someone "should" strive to eat clean, of course. Its the general term of "cheat meal" that gets misunderstood sometimes, within ones fitness goals. For example, I think we could agree that a "Reeses Peanut Butter Cup" is generally an unhealthy item, though it has healthy ingredients (the peanuts) along with some undesirables (refined white sugar, H-Oils, etc). Refined white sugar is opinioned through some in the medical world to be connected to several diseases, and I despise it myself, and do not consume refined white sugar. However........A healthy person "can" lose weight on a "so-called" dirty diet when it falls within their calculated calorie deficit and allow a "Reeses Peanut Butter Cup" once in a while.
It could be considered a "cheat" in the "health" sense, but not in the "goal sense"--dependent on the person. Though these two are related, there is a difference between them, and this difference can vary per person.
If it maintains the persons sanity (and doesnt cause binges, health or other goal problems), allowing this "cheat" meal is acceptable, IMO. I havent had a Reeses Peanut Butter Cup in over 2 years, and I love them. I just replaced it with a more healthy home made NPB alternative.
If you look around in this world of ours, we have people whom have ate like crap, are severaly over weight, and live to the average age per their gender (and beyond). Likewise, we have these people die early with symptoms related to their eating and external habits.
Additionally, we have people whom have eaten (or tried to eat healthy), and STILL live to the average age, and these people also have lived past the average age. Statistics are on the side of eating more healthy of course. But, personally, I believe it boils down to how your body processes the foods you eat and other things you do to it, and its generally better to strive to eat as healthy as you can, and see what happends.
My Mother-in-law is one. She is 80 years old, 5'2" (female) and nearly 200 lbs. She is severally over weight, and eats like a wild bore in the woods and it doesnt matter what it is. Show her a food, and she devours it. She is as healthy as ever, and no medical problems.....not even High blood pressure (a definite exception to the statistics, lol)
I am pretty damn hardcore when it comes to food, and most couldn't hang one month.
(Also consider, that one bulking wouldn't necessarily consider "pizza" a dirty (or cheat meal), and one deficiting to lose fat tissue probably could consider this a cheat meal, as another example)
Best wishes,
Chillen
