Tip Cheat Meals – A Rant Search Skip to content Menu Menu follow us Store Articles Community Loyal-T Club Loyal-T Points Rewards Subscribe to Save Search Search The World s Trusted Source & Community for Elite Fitness Diet & Fat LossEating Tip Cheat Meals – A Rant When do you get a cheat meal when dieting When you deserve one And you probably don' t deserve one yet Here' s why by Paul Carter May 14, 2018April 5, 2021 Tags Diet Strategy, Feeding the Ideal Body, Nutrition & Supplements, Tips When Do I Get a Cheat Meal I can't explain to you in words how much this annoys me. But I'll try. Imagine someone trying to make a college football team, and upon having their first talk with the coach the player asks, "How much Gatorade will I get to drink?" With that attitude, you can drink as much as you want... down at the 7-Eleven. One of the most difficult tasks for people to do is undo the bad habits that caused their crappy body composition in the first place. For real, you've had countless years of putting away all the Oreos and cheesecake and Chipotle your heart desires. And the one question you have, when you finally come to a place where getting on the scale frightens you, is when you can eat more of that stuff? Do you believe your mind is truly ready to undo the 10-mile walk you've made into the land of "10 pounds of crap stuffed into a 5-pound bag?" You've heard that expression before: If you walk 10 miles into the woods, you gotta walk 10 miles to get back out. What took you that 10 miles deep to begin with? Poor habits, bad choices, emotional eating, bulking when you're a 38 year old man and weren't lean to begin with... there's a litany of reasons. All of which are on you to undo. And there's the 10-mile walk back out. You don't need a cheat meal to fix the problem. And no, you don't "deserve" one for that 30 minute treadmill walk. You don't "deserve" one for going six whole days without eating like a jackass either. If you really don't care about changing how you look and feel, then by all means continue power-shoveling all the hyper-palatable foods you've been eating. But don't ask about cheat meals or complain about how you hate how you look if you're not willing to make a choice to change those dynamics at the dinner table. Rant over. Get The T Nation Newsletters Don' t Miss Out Expert Insights To Get Stronger, Gain Muscle Faster, And Take Your Lifting To The Next Level related posts Eating Tip Curcumin Makes Training Programs Better Use varying doses of this super supplement during different phases of training so you can train harder and recover faster. Nutrition & Supplements, Workout Nutrition TC Luoma March 1 Diet & Fat Loss Something s Fishy - Part 1 "The aim of the legal action is to force the fast-food industry to "offer a larger variety to the consumers, including non-meat vegetarian, less grams of fat, and a reduction of size of their meals." Feeding the Ideal Body, Nutrition & Supplements Lonnie Lowery, PhD August 9 Eating Tip Good Salmon Bad Salmon There's a big difference between Pacific and Atlantic salmon. Are you choosing the right one? Info here. Dietary Myth Busting, Good Fats, Nutrition & Supplements, Omega-3 Fatty Acids, Tips TC Luoma October 12 Eating Tip How to Boost Appetite Suppressing Hormones Research suggests that adding this food to your meals promotes the release of hunger squashing, fat burning hormones. Diet Strategy, Insulin Sensitivity, Losing Fat, Nutrition & Supplements, Tips TC Luoma October 21