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Originally Posted by Ironhorse
Stop calling them “cheat days”, the word “cheat” in itself causes a psychological stumbling block.
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Cheat days are for power-lifters or body builders that benefit from dedicating one day a week to an extremely calorie intensive diet in order to enhance their muscle gains. They need to set aside a day for this because you can't eat a bucket of KFC and then go do a high-intensity workout on the same day. Most of the rest of the time they are eating some combination of unseasoned chicken breast and rice.
The term has been bastardized by reward eaters who usually just end up spinning their wheels and hamstring their progress.