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I do not do without anything, I eat what I want when I want I just have one serving of it.
There is no point in eating if you don't enjoy it and I don't believe in *cheater* meals either, if you *cheat* on food what else are you going to *cheat* on and justify it because you don't do it often.
I have lost 8 pounds recently no cheating or depriving needed.
I'm happy for you, so please don't mistake what I'm about to say. But why should you deprive yourself of things that you enjoy? Weight loss is not about deprivation. It's about, as was said, calorie management and behavior modification. You can still eat things you enjoy while losing weight. I trained my body to do one thing and one thing only - feel satisfied with smaller portions. I don't have cravings because I do not deny myself. We all want to drop the pounds. I was really overweight, so I know the feeling. But this time I wanted more than just lost pounds. I wanted to a total mentality/lifestyle change.
Tomorrow i plan to go out and enjoy a cocktail which will have lots of stuff im not eating. Because it will be delicious and im celebrating something. And every time i have an indulgence, it does not hurt my weight loss. Sometimes i even am less weight the next day. Thats because of my theory that if i eat 90% of the time healthy, then that one 10% of the time i will have a treat will not hurt me. I am at the point where it wont tempt me to keep on indulging in it over and over. So i shall enjoy this cocktail (its a creamsickle vodka drink).
And if worse comes to worse, it will take less than a week for that to go thru my body and out of 52 weeks a year, one week at most will be delayed of weight loss. thats not much!
Tomorrow i plan to go out and enjoy a cocktail which will have lots of stuff im not eating. Because it will be delicious and im celebrating something. And every time i have an indulgence, it does not hurt my weight loss. Sometimes i even am less weight the next day. Thats because of my theory that if i eat 90% of the time healthy, then that one 10% of the time i will have a treat will not hurt me. I am at the point where it wont tempt me to keep on indulging in it over and over. So i shall enjoy this cocktail (its a creamsickle vodka drink).
And if worse comes to worse, it will take less than a week for that to go thru my body and out of 52 weeks a year, one week at most will be delayed of weight loss. thats not much!
1 single drink likely is such a blip on the radar your body cycles it thru in 1 24 hour period
I recently took a 1 week golf vacation with my buddies and cheated daily on my diet drinking a bunch of beers and eating many various foods that were avoided by me for months
End result I gained 7lbs in 1 single week and lost all 7 lbs in around 7-8 days after my return when I went back to my strict low carb and zero alcohol diet
1 single drink likely is such a blip on the radar your body cycles it thru in 1 24 hour period
I recently took a 1 week golf vacation with my buddies and cheated daily on my diet drinking a bunch of beers and eating many various foods that were avoided by me for months
End result I gained 7lbs in 1 single week and lost all 7 lbs in around 7-8 days after my return when I went back to my strict low carb and zero alcohol diet
Enjoy your drink and don't sweat the small stuff
Exactly!! you are exactly what I'm talking about - so you gained 7 pounds but lost it next week. Thats why this is for the long haul, for life, and it might not even hinder me that much! I will enjoy - thank U I will just count it in my daily calories and i shall be ok ..
I avoid these. Tho once in a while. I will treat myself
Everything in moderation
At a recent gathering some of the kids were bringing around plates and platters
Of Foods one was mini cupcakes. I tried one
They were sooo sweet. But I had a couple More
There are. A small number of foods I will not refuse
One of them are slightly undercooked chocolate chip cookies
And homemade date filled cookies
Have you tried Halo Top ice cream? They have a chocolate chip cookie dough one that is pretty nice. The whole pint is only 360 calories, so it's easy to eat just 1/4 pint at a time.
I do not do without anything, I eat what I want when I want I just have one serving of it.
There is no point in eating if you don't enjoy it and I don't believe in *cheater* meals either, if you *cheat* on food what else are you going to *cheat* on and justify it because you don't do it often.
I have lost 8 pounds recently no cheating or depriving needed.
I don't justify anything. It's all a part of calorie management. I have a day where it's no holds barred-I don't count calories, I eat a good high calorie meal, and I give no effs. And I lost weight doing that too..like over sixty pounds. I figured out how to balance calories in and out. No cravings and most importantly (for me) No bingeing. It's been shown that cheat days/meals, if done correctly, can be an effective weight loss strategy for some people. Employ whatever strategy you want to achieve results.
Tomorrow i plan to go out and enjoy a cocktail which will have lots of stuff im not eating. Because it will be delicious and im celebrating something. And every time i have an indulgence, it does not hurt my weight loss. Sometimes i even am less weight the next day. Thats because of my theory that if i eat 90% of the time healthy, then that one 10% of the time i will have a treat will not hurt me. I am at the point where it wont tempt me to keep on indulging in it over and over. So i shall enjoy this cocktail (its a creamsickle vodka drink).
And if worse comes to worse, it will take less than a week for that to go thru my body and out of 52 weeks a year, one week at most will be delayed of weight loss. thats not much!
Exactly. It's all about balance and management. The day I realized that one day wasn't going to derail a damn thing I felt liberated.
Exactly. It's all about balance and management. The day I realized that one day wasn't going to derail a damn thing I felt liberated.
Exactly right - small cheater meals allow you to maintain focus and balance and are in a way a reward for your hard work that dropped the pounds off
A single small serving of ice cream or a single donut or after work drink once every week or 2 is not going to disrupt your diet plan. Now a BOX of donuts is an entirely different animal.
If you can go full hardcore DefCon 1 and avoid EVERYTHING forever that you know is bad for your diet ... more power to you.
The majority of people and I would think the more successful at long term diet success, learn to strike a happy balance of 90% compliance and 5-10% cheat when the urge hits them.
Nobody wants to wake up daily and know that forever and ever something they enjoy has been taken away from them for the rest of their lives - that's a bad concept to face daily. I do not care how much weight you lose, why also lose your happiness and joy of life and all that it offers ?
Exactly right - small cheater meals allow you to maintain focus and balance and are in a way a reward for your hard work that dropped the pounds off
A single small serving of ice cream or a single donut or after work drink once every week or 2 is not going to disrupt your diet plan. Now a BOX of donuts is an entirely different animal.
If you can go full hardcore DefCon 1 and avoid EVERYTHING forever that you know is bad for your diet ... more power to you.
The majority of people and I would think the more successful at long term diet success, learn to strike a happy balance of 90% compliance and 5-10% cheat when the urge hits them.
Nobody wants to wake up daily and know that forever and ever something they enjoy has been taken away from them for the rest of their lives - that's a bad concept to face daily. I do not care how much weight you lose, why also lose your happiness and joy of life and all that it offers ?
This reason alone is why Keto and Paleo diets fail with the majority of people. Some people can stay on these and make it a lifestyle choice, but most people cannot. Just look at some of the recent posts of people going to, 'try it again'. Why didn't it work the first time? Maybe because its really restrictive and impedes on normal life?
Sure you can lose weight on them, and you may even be able to maintain them for awhile, but eventually life is going to get in the way and the diet gets blown.
Why not just eat from all the food groups and use moderation and common sense? The weight may come off slower - but there will be no deprivation.
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I will just count it in my daily calories and i shall be ok ..
