How to Recover From Cheating on Your Diet

Staying on a weight loss program long enough to see lasting results is tough; persistence is the only way to succeed. One thing that definitely helps stay on a program is eating a weekly cheat meal. This gives you something to work toward during the week and helps manage food cravings because you get to have a small amount of what you're craving at one meal during the weekend. Weekly cheat meals are a key element for dieters who need to lose significant amounts of weight over a sustained period of time. The problem with cheat meals is controlling them. When they're uncontrolled, it can be easy to put on 5-10 pounds just from one meal! Then it takes you until Thursday (4-5 days) of hard training/strict dieting just to get back to the weight you were before the cheat meal. Pretty soon you're working harder and harder to lose the same weight over and over again. Keep reading this article to learn a great system for the fastest way to recover from a cheat meal (whether it's controlled or not). More...