Eating Junk Food While Losing Weight

If you are planning to lose weight and still want to eat all the junk food you like, well you can, in moderation. The key is to decide when you want to add your junk food into your eating schedule. I'm not going to say diet here because a diet implies that it will eventually stop and this is not what you want. You want to make a lifestyle change, specifically a change in your eating habits. 

If you are going to add junk food into your eating schedule, moderation is important. Timing can also be important. You can choose to eat your junk food as one meal once or twice a week. These would be your cheat meals. This could be done once or twice every two weeks or a month, it really doesn't matter. These cheat meals would also be part of your daily calories which are a good idea to track on a daily basis. Another thing you can do is have a cheat day where you eat however you want for one day. Be careful with this though. It can be easy to binge and eat way too much thus  interfering with your weight loss. This could also be done once a week, every two weeks, a month, etc. It depends on your preference. When adding a cheat day, it can also be useful to track your weekly calories for the week or weeks of your cheat day. If you eat too many calories on your cheat day you can compensate by eating less than normal on a different day of the same week. This will ensure your weekly calories are the same as every other week for losing weight.

From my experience cheat meals work best when I'm trying to lose weight becuase I tend to eat way too much on a cheat day. I will have a cheat meal 2 or three times a week and it doesn't interfere with my weight loss. When I have a cheat day I eat too much junk food on that one day which usually slows my progress. I also don't feel great on that day like I do eating properly the rest of the week.

I think cheat days or cheat meals can actually be helpful when you are trying to change your weight or even keep it the same. They allow you a healthy eating schedule with a few of your favorite foods thrown in to help you keep that lifestyle.