1. Follow the 90/10 rule
It's understandable that you won't be able to follow your weight loss diet 100% perfect all the time and allowing yourself to cheat sometimes helps keep you on your diet longer making you lose more weight so...
- Only Try to be perfect 90% of the time and...
- Only cheat 10% of the time so for example...
- If your eating 5 meals a day to lose weight then that means you're eating about 35 meals a week and if you cheat 10% of the time
- Then 3-to-4 of the meals you eat during the week can be cheat meals
2. Don't overeat just because it's your cheat day (or cheat meal)
For example...
If you're supposed to eat 1,500 calories a day to lose weight - Don't eat 2,000-to-3,000 calories on your cheat day because if you overeat - you'll gain weight no matter if you're eating weight loss foods or bad foods for weight loss so remember this: A cheat day is just a day where you can eat whatever you want but NOT as much as you want but
One day of overeating once every 2-to-3 weeks won't ruin your weight loss goals
3. Eat mostly bad high protein foods
If you're going to have a cheat day or cheat meal and eat bad foods for weight loss... try to eat mostly bad high protein foods instead of lots of simple sugar loaded bad carbs because simple carbs will only make you crave for more weight-gaining simple carbs plus simple carbs are stored more easily as fat and...
Although the saturated & transaturated fats in the bad high protein foods are unhealthy for you... The bad high protein foods will still suppress your appetite and bad high protein foods will still increase your metabolism
Here's an example of a good cheat meal vs. a bad cheat meal using fast food places as an example...
- Good cheat meal
Chicken from KFC with a small sized soda = lots of high protein from chicken with little sugar from soda. - Bad cheat meal
Burger, small fries, & small soda from McDonalds' = lots of bad simple carbs from burger bun, fries, and soda with little protein from burger.
