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"Cheat Days"
Do you guys allow yourselves one cheat day per a certain period of time?
Weekends are my "eat whatever days" (although still not going over maintenance calorie level). To me, it helps psychologically more than anything. I guess some of you can't afford cheat days...? Reality 141/124/115 http://photos.yahoo.com/realitycheck0523 |
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"Cheat Days"
Cheating just sounds so tawdry.
-- JC Eat less, exercise more. -- "Reality Check" wrote in message ... Do you guys allow yourselves one cheat day per a certain period of time? Weekends are my "eat whatever days" (although still not going over maintenance calorie level). To me, it helps psychologically more than anything. I guess some of you can't afford cheat days...? Reality 141/124/115 http://photos.yahoo.com/realitycheck0523 |
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From what I have read some folks do use planned or controlled cheats...a
special occasion such as an anniversary, a birthday celebration for example. Some WOE such as Carb Addicts have one reward meal per day..but there are guidelines to follow-it's not a free for all binge meal! My take on this is that we have to learn how to navigate in a *carb filled* world, so it's better to go off your chosen plan in a calculated way than to throw all caution to the winds. Teresa |
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"Cheat Days"
"Reality Check" wrote in message ... Do you guys allow yourselves one cheat day per a certain period of time? Weekends are my "eat whatever days" (although still not going over maintenance calorie level). To me, it helps psychologically more than anything. I guess some of you can't afford cheat days...? Reality 141/124/115 http://photos.yahoo.com/realitycheck0523 Nope. why cheat? It is a slippery slope back to the bad ways of eating. |
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"Cheat Days"
I'm realizing I can't do cheat days. If I am over 100 carbs in a day, I
feel sick and lethargic. I think it is the result of my body working to shift to a carb based metabolism. It can take several days before Ketosis returns (according to Ketostix). "Reality Check" wrote in message ... Do you guys allow yourselves one cheat day per a certain period of time? Weekends are my "eat whatever days" (although still not going over maintenance calorie level). To me, it helps psychologically more than anything. I guess some of you can't afford cheat days...? Reality 141/124/115 http://photos.yahoo.com/realitycheck0523 |
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"Cheat Days"
ditto "Cubit". I traveled for business last week and decided to 'let my
hair down' on the carb thing. Felt lousy. Very tired. Ate my old favorites. Drank what I wanted. Will never do it again. Ever. I always have learned the hard way, and this turned out to be just that. Took three days just to detox afterward. I guess I'm with Steve ...... there's plenty of good food out there .... why cheat? But, if you can do it .... go ahead, it is certainly no insult to my WOE! -- John Vertigan Atkins since 1/2/04 262/238/6 lbs to go in Feb/160 |
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"Cheat Days"
I believe that the best way to make any carb diet a long term success is to
give it enough flexibility that you don't build up "forbidden fruits" which end up derailing you. I wrote about this on my web page, http://www.geocities.com/jenny_the_bean/diab-diet.htm in the context of staying low carb for diabetes control, but the principle is the same for anyone. Learning how to go on and off the diet and handle the physiological changes with aplomb rather than panicking when you put on 3 or 4 pounds of water weight in a day is important too. I cycle between a 40 gram and an 80 gram daily diet. I don't feel good over 80 grams, but occasionally I do eat at a higher level for a day. The resulting crappy feeling is good reinforcement for the way I usually eat. -- Jenny - Low Carbing for 4 years. At goal for weight. Type 2 diabetes, hba1c 5.2. Cut the carbs to respond to my email address! Low carb facts and figures, my weight-loss photos, tips, recipes, strategies for dealing with diabetes and more at http://www.geocities.com/jenny_the_bean/ Looking for help controlling your blood sugar? Visit http://www.alt-support-diabetes.org/...0Diagnosed.htm "Reality Check" wrote in message ... Do you guys allow yourselves one cheat day per a certain period of time? Weekends are my "eat whatever days" (although still not going over maintenance calorie level). To me, it helps psychologically more than anything. I guess some of you can't afford cheat days...? Reality 141/124/115 http://photos.yahoo.com/realitycheck0523 |
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Jenny wrote:
I believe that the best way to make any carb diet a long term success is to give it enough flexibility that you don't build up "forbidden fruits" which end up derailing you. I wrote about this on my web page, http://www.geocities.com/jenny_the_bean/diab-diet.htm in the context of staying low carb for diabetes control, but the principle is the same for anyone. Learning how to go on and off the diet and handle the physiological changes with aplomb rather than panicking when you put on 3 or 4 pounds of water weight in a day is important too. I cycle between a 40 gram and an 80 gram daily diet. I don't feel good over 80 grams, but occasionally I do eat at a higher level for a day. The resulting crappy feeling is good reinforcement for the way I usually eat. I think too, as often mentioned, one has to learn about what foods trigger binges. I have started to learn something about that this week, while my daughter is on vacation and clamoring to eat out. It is not necessarily the choice of a moderately carby meal itself that can bring on long-term effects, but what that choice leads to. I deliberately ate a semi-carby meal because I wanted my daughter to try something, and she wouldn't order it herself. That would have been okay (I think; for one thing I drained off most of the sauce), but thereafter I wanted to throw anything bad I could find in the house down my gullet. And I did eat some of those things. It was oddly uncontrollable. (Yes, I could have controlled it, but that is how it felt.) So either I should not eat such meals, or my access to foods thereafter has to be very restricted. I wonder how long that effect lasts, anyway? Luckily, it wears off by the next day. I also noticed that yesterday, I had a moderately carby lunch, but I was not at home thereafter, and by the time I was, I had no interest in eating any other carby foods. So, this is all still a work in progress for me. -- Jean B. |
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On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 11:53:39 +1100, "Reality Check"
wrote: Do you guys allow yourselves one cheat day per a certain period of time? Weekends are my "eat whatever days" (although still not going over maintenance calorie level). To me, it helps psychologically more than anything. I guess some of you can't afford cheat days...? Reality 141/124/115 http://photos.yahoo.com/realitycheck0523 Friday night carb ups are my favorite maintenance strategy. I only cycle carbs because I exercise a lot and need the extra glycogen for long weekend workouts. 800 to 1500 calories of pure decadence is quite enjoyacle and helps with metabolic issues! As other posters have noted the transition from ketosis back to burning glycogen has side effects. feeling sleepy is the most common, so I usually carb up in the evenings before bed. Getting back into ketosis seems to take a couple days regardless of how much exercise I get. Expect a couple pounds of extra water retention during that time. Even though the extra carbs are all ingested on friday night my appetite is increased the following day. you have to add about 500 extra calories of low carb food Saturday to be comfortably satiated. By Sunday night ketosis returns. Monday through Thursday is a rather boring high bulk, low carb, low calorie meal plan. The 200-500 calorie deficit per day is not really noticeable because of the loss of appetite brought on by ketosis. I make sure my weight is back down below target on Friday. A couple of times the scale said I was still out of range so I had to put off the cycle another week. I really hate missing my carb up night! |
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Cubit wrote:
:: I'm realizing I can't do cheat days. If I am over 100 carbs in a :: day, I feel sick and lethargic. I think it is the result of my body :: working to shift to a carb based metabolism. It can take several :: days before Ketosis returns (according to Ketostix). of course you can't -- you don't exercise. :: :: :: "Reality Check" wrote in message :: ... ::: Do you guys allow yourselves one cheat day per a certain period of ::: time? Weekends are my "eat whatever days" (although still not going ::: over maintenance calorie level). To me, it helps psychologically ::: more than anything. I guess some of you can't afford cheat days...? ::: ::: Reality ::: 141/124/115 ::: http://photos.yahoo.com/realitycheck0523 |
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