No im not talking about the kind of cheating that we see on tests or homework or heaven forbid cheating on a significant other, Im talking about the cheating that some dieters experience I was sitting watching a new episod of I used to the be fat a new reality television series on MTV when I realized how much of a problem this is for dieters. This episod featured a young girl that during the summer before she starts college wants to lose weight and get down to a healthy range and to do this she is given a trainer who also doubles as a nutritionist. Her nutritionist shows her what to eat and how to prepare this food to get to her goal, but for some reason she believed that it might be benefical for her to take her diet into her own hands.
This girl planned her own cheat days where if she believed she had done good with her workout and diet the whole week she would endulge in a pasta dish or desert to reward herself, or in some cases make herself feel better for the hard times she had been going though mentally and physically. What she did not realize is that she may have done a good job the whole week but this one cheat meal was just negating every bit of energy and hard work she had put in the whole week. Within the first month of her diet she had only lost around five pounds of the sixty pound goal due to these cheat days.
I wanted to write and warn about cheating on diets because to me it is one of the biggest problems seen today with the average dieter. You could eat a salad everyday all week and keep your calorie intake down but right when you put that pasta or chocolate cake in ur mouth it just sparks a craving for more, which leads to another and maybe even bigger cheat the next time or even next meal. Those on diets need to realize that their hard work of giving up food and working out will all be wasted if they participate in on of the biggest epidemics in the dieting world, the cheat day.
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