I never actually eat the shell...I've discovered that just putting everything on it imparts flavor. I'm sure it brings along some calories too...but it can't be that many since I don't actually eat it.

Ok I love everyone's cheat rants.
But I have a question. Tell me if it is stupid, as I'm not that experienced in terms of nutrition.

Anyways I'm asian, so my family eats a LOT of carbs, actually when I went back to visit my rellies. a typical day is:

Noodles for brekky,
snack of buns (with meat in them)
lunch is rice with meat and vegies or noodles
afternoon - fried beef/chicken dumplings
dinner - rice fish meat vegies. whatever but a lot of rice we don't stop at one bowl!
supper, chicken skewers, beef/chicken dumplings or noodles.

Ok my question is, how come my cousins eat plenty of processed carbs, pretty much every single meal. (I consider those carbs, my cheat meals as well.) But how do they eat this every day and not get huge? when I'm told processed carbs are bad for you?
They don't do any exercise that I can really see either...

BTW if this is not the right place to be asking this, just feel free to move it or something hehe

I just started this, so I'm scared to cheat with anything.
I just know that one nip of anything delicious that I love and that's probably full of fat and calories will control me right away.

It sucks thinking about it now
See I'm the type that goes all depressed and moody when craving and I turn into a really miserable person.

Like right now

I "cheated" and went for drinks with my friends tonight - had 3 glasses of wine. Not so bad really - but when I got home - I had TWO chicken brats on buns About 500 extra calories on top of the wine!!!

This is the first cheat in 3 weeks - but it still makes me feel like I negated everything I've done for the last three weeks. Logically - I know that's not true - emotionally it's not that simple.

I've found that if I allow myself a LITTLE bit of what I want every day, the cravings aren't as bad. I still think I eat candy because it's there, though, not because I want it.

I also didn't start this until about 2 or 3 weeks in because I learned self control in those weeks and now when I have to indulge, I do it responsibly.

I used to not have any cheat ANYTHING at all, because I knew if I had one bite, I'd have the whole bag (or box, or whatever) There are still a few foods I can't indulge in. Mostly birthday cake, birthday cookie, chocolate chip cookies (home made, so we just don't buy the dough anymore.),and regular soda. I've just recently switched from diet sodas to water... and I am going to wait a couple weeks until I have diet soda again.

Overall, I think "cheating" is a bad word for it. I think it should be called "assuring your sanity" .

I agree with this!

If I 'cheated' it would automatically make me feel guilty just because of the meaning of the word.

That's a really good question.

Only thing I can think of is their total calories for the day doesn't exceed what they burn. Processed carbs have a bad rap because they tend to be low in nutrition, high in calories, and hard to STOP eating once you START. In reality, it's YOU that's "bad," not the carbs, LOL Not you personally, but you get what I mean.....

I LOVE CHEAT DAYS!

BUT...when I first started dieting there was NO such thing. I ate well for 6 months straight, and it uh. sucked to say the least!

But now I can take my cheat days and enjoy em =)
The weird thing is though after I lost all the weight, I really dont like sweets as much as I used to like ..reeses cups. dont really like em now. There's actualyl a lot of things I dont like now..which is a good thing..


I like saving up for CHINESE FOOD! hehehe There is my downfall!
I have never had a problem since though with my weight ... and I usually have at least one splurge a week (NEVER for the whole day though..either one meal or one dessert etc.)

Lovee it =)
hahah

Thats the bad deal with alcohol....you drink the alcohol then want to eat! Damnit! haha

Oh it doesn't make me want to eat. It makes me want to SMOKE.

It makes me want to sleep. I drink, I fall asleep. Does that make me weird, or does anybody else have the same thing happening to them?
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I'm not going to lie...
This was a great help! I knew about the eat more - lose weight thing, but I did not know that cheat days helps me lose weight. Anyways, thanks.

Nice post. I do have some 'cheat days' too, just to satisfy my occasional cravings

the only thing is you should not weight yourself the day after a cheat day, and eat more fruits and vegetables for the next two days.

if you don't eat until you're full,you get used to it and you can't eat very much after that...try eating just alittle bit always,like 5 times a day and you'll see...