You know what the most embarrassing logic in the world of Fitness is?
The fact of thinking that a cheat day (day of cheating) where eating junk food in calorie surplus is GOOD, while inserting the same junk food in moderation into more than one day, making it fit into macros and calories, is BAD!
I wonder why sometimes we can't see further than our nose.
I don't have a problem with cheat days in general, but I am honestly more inclined to understand and justify them when they coincide with holidays (Birthday, Natale, New Year's, Easter), therefore with days that can be counted on the fingers of one hand in an ENTIRE year!
Unfortunately I see this very often in the world of Fitness, people who do one cheat day a week where few are able to stay in a moderate surplus without exceeding double their usual daily calorie intake.
Why this little self-control?
LIMITATION.
MENTAL & feeding!
Mental because they believe that junk food eaten in a single day cannot do much harm compared to eating it every day.
Food because the prolonged deprivation of certain categories of food only triggers an uncontrolled binge on the day in which these foods are "allowed".
And I regret to inform you that if you are one of those people who think that a single day of uncontrolled surplus cannot make you store excess energy in the form of fat, but rather it helps you keep your metabolism high, you are very wrong.
There are no benefits on a metabolic level and I will tell you more:
since you've had your body on edge all week, it will be very likely that your metabolism can be more efficient in capturing surplus calories without wasting even a gram of them and storing them in the form of fat.
So be careful about the strategy you use, especially if you are NOT counting on those days!
Adopting a flexible diet is the key to ADHERING to the plan you subjectively decide to follow.
How to learn to structure yours, based on your preferences?
Simple!
Through a gradual approach in which you will be able to understand how to include the foods you like most on a daily basis, without going crazy by limiting yourself to foods that, alone, they don't help you maintain mental focus on the goal.
To book a consultation with me where I will explain to you:
– How to train in a scientific way without experiencing stalled progress, with the possibility of having the ideal programming tailored for your situation;
– How to build your flexible diet with a view to maintaining it in the long term, allowing you to be totally in control of the concepts and therefore of your body, without falling into despair over the number you see on the scale;
Write me an email at: claudia.coach.xw@gmail.com
Don't always put off the change you deserve!
Soon,
Claudia Monteleone
Fitness Coach
