Saving Calories for a cheat day:
Some people think that you should save your calories to have a cheat day. There is some truth to that, but if you eat strict throughout the week, a cheat day will help to rev up the metabolism and keep you honest during the rest of the week.
Switching over from contest diet, to bulk diet – my cheat days went from ½ a day to a full day.
This past Friday I consumed about 8000 calories or so, give or take. (who’s counting)
During the car ride to work, I consumed 1 quart of ice-cream which held about 1000 calories. Throughout the morning, I continued to ingest four more. This totaled 4000 calories into the system. Still hungry and shocking my co-workers, I then treated myself to a 12 inch philly cheese steak with chips. (had a diet soda, since regular is too sugary for my liking) total calories by early afternoon were close to 5500 or so.
By dinner time, it was time for pizza, cookies and more ice-cream. During the mean time, I also ate several Mrs. Fields cookies and a container of oreo cookies. By 10:00 at night, I finished off the day with a few fish crackers and went to bed. I felt filled, but not stuffed… go figure.
This equals to about 8000 calories, maybe more or maybe less.
The reasoning behind this is your body can relax and it tricks the body into not going into starvation mode. It’s also a lot of fun, since I usually weigh less the following day.
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September 20, 2008 at 7:07 pm
DANG!! You think this would work for me too? Lol. I love me some OREOS and pizza! I just know i gotta limit those babies. I just got done with a show this past weekend and getting back to a semi-clean diet. Pretty cool how the body works