Cheat Meals Explained

When it comes to quitting bad food cold turkey (pun intended), it can be very easy to find the motivation within the first couple of days, but it can quickly trail off and you find yourself craving those foods that you love so much. When dieting, there is a mixed review of implementing the idea of cheat meals. What do we say? Since I used cheat meals in my diet program with successful results (eventually never needing cheat meals), I say if you need a meal to eat whatever you desire, go for it.

Allow yourself ONE cheat meal a week to indulge on the things you crave and miss. Eventually you will have less and less of those cravings, especially if you are following the meal plans we provide. There are those days, however, when you just truly want a nice cheeseburger, or want to hang out and have a couple drinks with friends. What if there was a day when it was ok? That is why we implemented the cheat meal. I recommend having your cheat meal on Saturday. Why? It is the time when you are most likely to go out to eat, out with friends for a drink, or just out in general. Enjoy the night and then get back on track the next day.

What foods should you eat on your cheat meal? Well, as long as it doesn't kill you...eat whatever you want.

Note: If you follow the weekly weigh in to monitor your progress, make sure that you weigh in falls on the mornings of your cheat meal. This allows you to accurately monitor that actual progress from the entire week. When I originally started, my cheat meals were on Saturday and my weigh ins on Sunday. Needless to say, in the beginning was a little demotivating. When I changed my weigh in day to be in conjunction with my cheat meal that night, the progress felt a lot better.