Starting Weight: 235
We decided to have a cheat day every Saturday. A day where we wouldn't go overboard, but wouldn't really stick with the diet either if we didn't want to.
I didn't log anything I ate this day, but I think I remember most of it.
Breakfast - Yogurt, some other stuff. I think it was two dairy items total and something else. Reasonable meal, but not totally within diet spec.
Lunch - Stopped at a diner while we were out. I got a burger with cheese and bacon and something else. Added a little ketchup and mustard. Ate a few fries with it. Drank unsweetened iced tea.
Dinner - Got a hoagie from Wawa and a diet ginger ale. Hoagie was roast beef with horseradish, lettuce, tomato, onions and a little bit of mayo (yes, that's an option on their ordering screen "a little bit of mayo".. go Wawa!). Topped it all off with some Kozy Shack Key Lime pudding. About 1 cup worth. Not so good (for the diet and also flavor-wise).
I may have had a little Chik-o-Stick bite size thing as well.
Again, trying to be reasonable but not strictly be on the diet either. A pressure relief valve so we can actually eat food we really ENJOY at least once per week.
We'll see how Sunday goes. Supposed to go to a wine festival, but still be on our diets. I'm thinking it's going to be 50/50.
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We also cheat every sunday. Truth be told, we've cheated a lot more than that and 3 weeks in I'm still down 6 pounds. Fantastic! Cheating is okay, because as a friend of mine who lost 30lbs on NS said, if you don't cheat a little you'll go crazy.
I think it's really important to have something to strive for. A proverbial carrot on a stick. Going hardcore and just dieting is going to make you miserable and you're going to either sneak food or you're going to just explode one day and eat a ton of junk you don't need.
Telling yourself "I just have to do this until Saturday" gives you a goal. It's easy to put off snacking and being bad until Saturday. Then, if you're smart, you try to be just a little bad. Just enough to satiate your snack lust. You really appreciate junk food better if you deprive yourself a little.
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