This is very important - for a sound mind and body. I know that it seems counter-productive to do this. Why, if you're trying to lose weight would you allow yourself to eat the very foods that got you that point? Well, for me, once I stopped eating those uber rich, totally unhealthy fast food and totally full of cheesey goodness foods...and then I went back to eating them my body was like WTF?! No, seriously, since I wasn't eating like this all of the time my body could actually feel the food in my body. It could feel that this was not "good for me food" and it would respond...and not in a good way.
My stomach would get totally bloated and I would feel lethargic and I just didn't feel good at all, and over time I began to hate that feeling and I just kind of stopped eating those foods. But honestly those cheat meals really did save me from going over the edge. It was very hard to stop eating those foods, but knowing that I could eat them at least one day at week kept me sane, and that is really what the "cheat meal" is all about.
So, go ahead and allow yourself to have one once a week...all you want for that one meal. Since it will not be a forbidden food the luster for it will go away...over time. I just didn't make eating like that the rule anymore and it somehow helped me to rid myself of them. I'm very grateful that my trainer actually suggested that and it worked, because it would have been hard for me to accept that I couldn't eat those foods anymore...AWESOME!
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