Instead of
scheduling cheat days, stick with cheat meals or small treats that don't derail the progress you've made.
Not exact matches
But instead of planning and
scheduling entire «
cheat»
days, try thinking of indulgences as «splurge moments» that happen naturally in your life.
So
scheduling one
cheat day every week and breaking from that discipline is often seen as a motivation tactic.
The old way of thinking states that even if you had a
cheat meal /
cheat day, if you didn't go back to your regularly
scheduled meals, you'd do more harm than good.
A
cheat day for exercise isn't really a
cheat day more of a rest
day which you should have
scheduled in your program for 1 - 2 times per week anyway to allow your body to recover.
For example, let's say that you have a birthday party to attend on a Thursday evening, but your normal
Cheat Day is regularly scheduled for Saturday (a day in which you don't really have anything planned that particular wee
Day is regularly
scheduled for Saturday (a
day in which you don't really have anything planned that particular wee
day in which you don't really have anything planned that particular week).
I typically do the 18/6
schedule four
days per week (explained below), alternated with the 16/8
schedule for two
days, with one
day when I eat whenever and whatever I want (the infamous «
cheat»
day).