Weekend Fitness- Diet Strategies- Being a Cheater

Weekend Fitness-

Oftentimes I get the feeling that I just do not want to do anything on the weekend. I just want to put all sorts of junk food in and do absolutely nothing to help burn it off. Some of this is good for you. Your body needs to rest to some degree otherwise it will burnout and you will hurt yourself. Same thing goes with eating junk food. Especially when first starting a diet, a cheat day/weekend, can prove to be very beneficial.

Cheat days are when you try to get over a craving because you let your body have the food it thinks it wants anyway, but just once a week. Here are a few steps to being successful being a cheater.

1. Pick a certain day and stick with it.
       - Picking one day out of a week ahead of time, and knowing that you can indulge a little on that day helps you to have a good excuse not to eat that junk food when it is calling your name on a day that you are not allowed cheat.

2. Don't Binge.
       - Just because you get to cheat, does NOT mean you get to eat as much of that junk that you want. Eat some, get a taste of it, and do you best to put it away. If you have to take a large drink of water to fill yourself up faster. Do it.

3. Don't cheat just to cheat. 
       -Yes you are giving yourself the option to cheat, does not mean that you have to. If you are feeling perfectly fine without the junk on your cheat day. Do not make a point to eat it just because you can.

4. If you skip a cheat day.
      - Don't use it as an excuse to eat unhealthy the next week on a non- cheat day. Use the upcoming cheat day as your leverage to overcome these urges.

5. Slowly use fewer cheat days. 
      - After awhile, your cheat days are going to be the only thing holding yourself back from really hitting that next level. This is to be expected. At some point, you should probably think about cutting back on the amount of cheat days that you give yourself. Try maybe giving yourself one cheat day every two weeks instead of one each week.


Utilizing cheat days has been a great tool to use in my life. I feel that as long as you remember these steps you will be able to benefit greatly also.

As always thanks for reading and check back tomorrow for more daily content.
-Andrew