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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Personally, I don't get the idea of cheat days.  Maybe a day of zero calorie deficit, but to me "cheat day" says "go crazy and don't count."  To me, that seems like a recipe for failure.  If you are running a moderate to aggressive 500 calorie deficit (i.e. you are hungry) for 6 days ,  but then on a cheat day you eat a muffin (800 calories), a pint of ben & jerry's (1000 calories), a whopper and small onion rings (1360 calories), there your calorie deficit for the previous six days and you are in fact 160 calories over.   Am I misunderstanding what people mean by cheat days?[/quote]

Well you are forgetting that some of those 3160 calories consumed on your cheat day will be used by your body - so if your body needs 2000 calories a day (just throwing out a random number for simplicity's sake) and you normally eat 1500 a day, you'll really only be 1160 over. But yes, that basically ruins 2 days plus that extra 160 calories. This is why I don't believe in cheat days - I believe in eating whatever I want as long as it fits within my calories and macros for the day. [/quote]

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