Just like everyone wants a break and relax after a long week to get fresh and rejuvenated, cheat meals work similarly in our routine diet. The article below chew over why cheat meals are necessary for your diet.
Cheat meals are an essential part of your diet. Without it, you might feel that your food habits are boring and mundane. I know that we all might hear that it is not good, and once you start eating, you cannot control yourself. But this is another thing you could learn from it, i.e., having self-control.
It will make you more charged and motivated for the strict diet you are following. Having food of your liking once in one or two weeks will make you feel that you are not trapped into eating only diet food. It is a psychological relief that you will be getting something different and delicious after a fixed interval.
Cheat meals serve as a reward for all the hard work you put into eating tasteless food and balance hunger-stimulating hormones, insulin levels, fat, and calories that we don’t get from diet food. It will boost your metabolism and reset it for the days till you have your next cheat meal.
You don’t have to feel sorry about having a cheat meal, as many diets and fitness-conscious celebrities like Shilpa Shetty also allow and do include cheat meals in their diet. Every Sunday is a cheat day for Shilpa Shetty. Even if her social media is filled with fit and fabulous posts, she shares drool-worthy posts of her #SundayBinge in which she is savoring her favorite snacks or desserts.
But the most important is to plan when to include cheat meals in between your diet. It could be every week or once in two weeks, depending on your self-control. You can also opt to cheat on social occasions and festivals because we cannot resist the temptation of amazing smelling laddus, samosas, halva, or anything else cooking in the kitchen on Diwali, Holi, etc.
It can be challenging for you to look at everyone when they have that fatty and cheesy food in front of you. But you need to keep your calm and wait for the right time when you can also have food of your liking because your patience will accrue sweet, savory, cheesy food at the end of the week.
However, note that cheat meals don’t work as a weight-loss strategy in the same manner for everyone. While some might be able to resist the temptation, some might be able to do it. Also, not every diet plan allows to include cheat meals. So, choose a flexible diet plan if you want to have cheat meals.
