It’s not a “Cheat” day it’s a “Treat” day.
In this semantically focused world, I find that people loose focus on their diets, as I have many times, by misunderstanding cheat… I mean treat day. By calling it cheat day we convince ourselves that “cheating” is ok. While it is true that “treating” yourself to a FEW more calories from time to time is good to keep you progress going in the right direction. Cheating seems to allow one to slide in more calories in a given day than they should, or more days that they allow themselves to “cheat”. On the other hand a scheduled or structured “treat” day may be just what you are looking for to have ‘slightly’ higher calorie days without completely falling off your plan.
This may sound simplistic, but it really helped me to simply change the wording to boost my weight loss and keep my sanity.
April 11, 2009 at 2:45 pm
holy crap, that’s an awesome way to look at it. Thanks for this post. My whole view on treat vs cheat days has changed, just like that.
April 11, 2009 at 2:59 pm
glad to do my part in my humble way. LOL