The reason I HATE “cheat days”

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We took a trip to the beach yesterday and I did my normal 18hour fast. But I ate like crap, sweets, chips, fish tacos, French fries, doughnuts from britts, ice cream from squigglies, ect. I bet I ate 4k calories yesterday (some sarcasm).
Today I weighed in and no gain, that’s a plus.

But my body is yelling at me that it’s hungry at 8am and wants McDonald’s, bojangles, and a coke.

I’m not giving in, but dear lord the bodies memory for all the things terrible is strong
 
Cluck Norris said:
We took a trip to the beach yesterday and I did my normal 18hour fast. But I ate like crap, sweets, chips, fish tacos, French fries, doughnuts from britts, ice cream from squigglies, ect. I bet I ate 4k calories yesterday (some sarcasm).
Today I weighed in and no gain, that’s a plus.

But my body is yelling at me that it’s hungry at 8am and wants McDonald’s, bojangles, and a coke.

I’m not giving in, but dear lord the bodies memory for all the things terrible is strong
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Yeah I feel you. Beach trips are hard on the diet plan. I also find that "cheat days" take 2-3 days to show up on the scale.
 
Honestly, that sounds horrible. OK maybe the fish tacos, but the rest of it seems like garbage that's totally not worth wasting the calories on. Get back to the program!

We went out for 'real' ice cream as a treat on Saturday for the first time in about a year or more. It was not all that, the stuff I make at home is better (cheaper, better flavor and asuridly lower cal).
 
It's amazing how quickly the body remembers bad stuff.

It takes a few days, sometimes a week or two, for the body's weight to catch up to caloric intake. So don't worry about yesterday, go to the next play, get back on plan. You have time to make up for it.
 
I also find myself starving in the morning after a cheat day.

Back down to 173.5 on Friday.

Had bloodwork done last Thursday, numbers were much better than in March @191 lbs.
 
Sugar is addictive just like any ‘drug’. I know, I can spend months not touching sugary product but the floodgates will open once I have a piece of candy.
 
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Sugar is addictive just like any ‘drug’. I know, I can spend months not touching sugary product but the floodgates will open once I have a piece of candy.
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Not 'just' sugar, but also sugar-by-other-names (looing at you, high-fructose corn syrup). That's why a person can have a Snickers but be OK, but have to mow through a whole bag of Fritos (BBQ Fritos are my weakness).
 
12151791 said:
Sugar is addictive just like any ‘drug’. I know, I can spend months not touching sugary product but the floodgates will open once I have a piece of candy.
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That's how a several lb bag of M&Ms found their way into my house.

Luckily, they're gone now.
 
My cheat days are more amount than garbage. About the only sweets I eat are stuff my daughter makes or some places that make all their own stuff.

On my split days off I eat A LOT, and care less about what I eat. But still try and stay away from junk. After keto I lost my taste for mass produces sweets.

If I eat a big lunch or really go big on dinner and beer my scale can be +5 lbs over the day before. That washes out pretty quick but it's crazy to see things jump like that.
 
Jayne said:
Honestly, that sounds horrible. OK maybe the fish tacos, but the rest of it seems like garbage that's totally not worth wasting the calories on. Get back to the program!
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Oh I’m not off the program, we went to spend a day and the beach makes my eczema really angry so we never stay long. The main thing was just taking the kids out to do all the fun things since I rarely go for any length of time.
The doughnuts are made at a local place at Carolina beach called britts, and they are fantastic. 100% home made all the way down to the icing. The ice cream was a local joint as well. So it wasn’t terrible but it’s amazing how fast the body reacts
 
12151791 said:
Sugar is addictive just like any ‘drug’. I know, I can spend months not touching sugary product but the floodgates will open once I have a piece of candy.
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Sugar or carbs … I can eat bacon and eggs for breakfast with no toast or such and feel full and not want anything until lunch BUT if I eat cereal (and it’s carbs) I easily get hungry by at least an hour or so before lunch. The protein based meals don’t make me snack in between.

Also it may just be me but if I brush my teeth way before going to bed I don’t want a late night snack as much?
 
There is a school of thought that the body is programmed to survive times of food scarcity and starvation. It takes measures to conserve itself in times of little food and piles on the stored energy (fat) in times of plenty. Drastically reducing your food intake shifts the body into survivor mode. An occasional splurge can keep it out of the survival mode.
 
My Achilles' heel is booze. I can flat-out kills a fifth and a case of beer in a week. I am trying to cut back to having it only on the weekends.

I don't eat a whole of sugar, though put pastries in front of me--donuts, bear claws, doesn't matter-and they go fast-quick.
 
Family gatherings are the worst. My dads bday party.

My mom: want some cake?

Me: it looks delicious but no thank you.

Her: some pecan pie then?

Me: mom. I’ve lost 30 lbs since the bbq by not eating that stuff.

Her: Why don’t you take a piece to go when you leave then.

I walked away. When I was leaving. Her: You should take some of those cookies with you if you don’t want cake.
 
I couldn't care less about sugary treats anymore. I do get a sweet craving once in a while. A piece of birthday cake nauseating.

I haven't had a soft drink since 2005. Not one.

I am a whiskey man though. Your body will stop burning fat until the alcohol has been processed. I rarely get tipsy.
 
Cluck Norris said:
Oh I’m not off the program, we went to spend a day and the beach makes my eczema really angry so we never stay long. The main thing was just taking the kids out to do all the fun things since I rarely go for any length of time.
The doughnuts are made at a local place at Carolina beach called britts, and they are fantastic. 100% home made all the way down to the icing. The ice cream was a local joint as well. So it wasn’t terrible but it’s amazing how fast the body reacts
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Britts are a solid choice.
 
Last cheat day my wife and I attempted, she curled up with a gallon of ice cream and I tried getting frisky with her sister. I now have a much better understanding of what she meant by cheat day.

That said, I'm off my fasting diet, but my waist size keeps dropping but the scale hasn't moved one way or the other. Gatorade is my weakness, don't seem to be able to replace the sweat with just water anymore. Went from a solid 38 down to a 34 and I'm swimming in those ATM.
 
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Cheat WEEK for me. I was on-site with a client all week. That meant hotel bar meals and lunches of “we’ll just order pizzas so you can continue to work..”. Was happy to come home only +1 pound.

A couple hikes in the mountains outside Salt Lake helped.
 
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