Cheat Meals Are Killing Your Progress

I think only a lunatic would use ‘cheat meals.’ Not only do they not improve physiological aspects that come with dieting, but they also increase the risk of developing an unhealthy relationship with food

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IMO, a ‘cheat meal’ is when the food gates are so wide open that you vomit your guts out…

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…or at least get dizzy of biblical proportions:

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Hang on, this study told me that a ‘cheat meal’ is a single ad libitum meal (read: eating as much food as you want) without specific calorie or macro-/micronutrient targets. In other words, no restrictions on what and how much you can eat.

You may say Ok, but why would you do it? Well, 97 reasons for that. 3 to be more precise:

• When you’re trying to lose weight, your metabolism slows down due to metabolic adaptation. Creating a large surplus of calories would stop that from…