The Cheat Day???

What is the “CHEAT DAY?”

I have either heard or personally experienced every facet of this well known and usually overly utilized dieting fallacy. 

How many times have I heard / said…

“It’s my cheat day!  I can eat that [INSERT AB DESTROYING, METABLOLISM KILLING CRAP]!”

  I am no saint when it comes to the “clean living / eating thing.”  I have had my Taco Bell binges, or my late night rush on anything resembling processed carbohydrates or grease laden meats!  I deal with these horrendous urges constantly, the desire to gorge myself on those sweet little Wendy’s nuggets haunts my sleep.

However,

Lately I have been strong(er).  I have kept what I now consider to be cheat items to a minimum.  But the idea that I DESERVE a cheat day hovers like the devil on my shoulder.  What is that?  I deserve to get fat?  I deserve to feel like hell?  Why?  How can I go from the most adamant fighter for clean foods, high in plain old good for you stuff to the slob I used to be, inhaling upwards of $20 in dollar menu items from McDonald’s?  I can.  I can change my mind an allow myself to eat like that 400lb man I once was.  One day I will figure out why.

Till then I scrape and pull my way to the way I want to be.  That unyielding, clean, strong and lean man resides somewhere within this body, he will be found one day.

 I will DESERVE that cheat day when and only when I don’t want it!