Bloated Cheater

I feel bloated from yesterdays cheat meals. I always enjoy my cheat meals but I don't enjoy the "less than my best" feeling the day after. Same with alcohol, I enjoy the beer & drinks, but not the groggy feeling the day after. But that being said, I think cheat days are important, not for your physical health, but for your mental health.

This is only my 3rd cheat day since September, so I do enjoy them when I allow myself one. Obviously, my daughters wedding in June will be another one coming up. There are other ways of enjoying cheats... if you got the will power and you can trust yourself to stay on target, you can use a 90/10 method. Every day get 90% of your calories from good, clean healthy foods and 10% from whatever else you want. So if you're taking in 2000 calories a day, you can have a cheat snack of no more than 200 calories. That would be a candy bar, or two of those 100 calorie snack bags, or a can of soda.

Personally for me, I couldn't use that method, I have an "All or Nothing" personality when it comes to things like that. So I'll stick to my clean diet and have a cheat day every once in a great while. Like they say, the best method is the one that you will stick to.