Cheat meals

What's your opinion on cheat meals while cutting?

I'm on a 500 kcal deficit and eat very clean. Is one cheat meal like pic related every two weeks bad? Should I avoid it?

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No it's not that bad. I used to have 1 a week and still lost weight at the same rate. But for me cheat meal eating less calories so that I can fit in a shitty meal like wings or ribs. Not eating a fuckload of calories.

If it's that big a deal either way just have the cheat meal and that morning/afternoon do cardio for an hour

You should try to do net or maintenance days. If you want McDonald’s twice a month just eat at your maintenance calorie allowance. If you have a cheat meal or day you’re likely to erase progress you already made by over eating, eating at maintenance only slows your progress it doesn’t take away what you’ve already done.

If you eat a cheat meal surpassing maintenance calories by 1500cals. You lose 3 days of your deficit. There is nothing wrong with a cheat meal if you continue like nothing happens, but take that into consideration. I usually just keep the calories at my deficit and just replace meals with the cheat

The only person you're cheating is yourself.
If that's okay with you, go ahead.

This is the proper way to operate
He doesn't have to be cheating himself to have a cheat meal nonlifting retard. It doesn't have to be all or nothing

Yes

>It doesn't have to be all or nothing
NGMI

depends on total calories. It is okay to do a 500-800 cheat day switching from usual diet to something less clean one every 2 weeks. But if you will find yourself eating 1500-2000 then it's just plain stupid. The more cheat meals, the longer the cut. I assure you that you will thank yourself if you decide to go clean in your cut and stick to your plan, because you will go into maintance/lean bulk faster and struggle less. Also the better the wieght loss the better the motivation

You have to have cheat meals. If you go straight caloric deficit, your body will adapt to the lower caloric intake. You need to trick your body by occasionally eating more calories.

you shouldnt cheat meal to cheat meal
i cheat meal only when i eat socially, with others, cause i cant be autistic in those times
cheat meal with no other purpose than to "feel good eating" is useless and also feeds back into shitty relationship with food
after you actually get into a good diet for a long while, you lose the appetite for trash food
you can still enjoy desserts and similar things once in a while, but no trash

Ask me how I know you don't train

I had a huge fucking cheat meal yesterday, felt really tired after. 2 jr whoppers, 2 small fries and a spicy ch'kang sandwich. If that sounds like a weird order it's because the whoppers and fries were one of the discount offers on the app.

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See don't do this though lmfao

it really wasn't worth it, if I had just had one whopper it would've only been like 700 calories and I could've still made deficit by having a small lunch

Why not just get 1 medium fries, instead of 2 smalls?

I have plenty of cheat meals during my cuts. Just burn them. If I'm planning a 1500 calories pizza for dinner, I just go for a run until I burn at least 1000

I have cheat a day once a week, still manage to look good and have abs

I'm at 1000 kcal deficit every weekday and "cheating" all weekend up to 0 deficit. Current loss ~0,5% a week

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You can eat "cheat meals" that fit into your calories. Maybe you can disregard your macros for a day but no reason you cant have a big mac or whatever the fuck on a cheat day and still stay -500.

I’ve been being strict. Only down a couple pounds and only a week in. I need to cut like 60lbs total. Every 10 pounds im going to have a day where I eat whatever I want.
>first cheat day
3 large pizzas for breakfast lunch and dinner
>second cheat day
Gonna grill myself a bunch of cheese burgers and sausages with an assortment of extra like tacquitos
>third cheat day
Probably gonna hit a buffet


The rest are undecided

Have you considered just making one of those items rarely and making it fit your macros instead of acting retarded perhaps?

>3 large pizzas in a day