3069: Cheat Meals, Cheat Days, Cheat Lives by Mark Fisher of Mark Fisher Fitness on Healthy Discipline

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🗓️ 2 August 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3069: Mark Fisher explores three common strategies, cheat days, cheat meals, and no-cheat approaches, to help navigate the tension between indulgence and discipline during a fat-loss journey. He urges listeners to find what works best for their own psychology while emphasizing the power of reframing, planning indulgences, and maintaining long-term sanity over dietary perfection. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://markfisherfitness.com/cheat-meals-cheat-days-cheat-lives/ Quotes to ponder: "Psychological framing matters. If you’re gonna eat some chips, then DO IT. Don’t feel bad about it. Enjoy it!" "Willpower is a trainable quality, many people seem to develop psychospiritual super powers by claiming dominance over their food." "We must be careful not to yank our chains away from Master Junk Food only to hand them over to Master Health Food." Episode references: Body-for-LIFE: https://www.amazon.com/Body-LIFE-Strength-Success-Program/dp/0060193395 Orthorexia information (National Eating Disorders Association): https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/learn/by-eating-disorder/other/orthorexia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.5	This is Optimal Health Daily. Cheat meals, cheat days, cheat lives by Mark Fisher of
0:37.1	Mark Fisher Fitness.com. And I'm Dr. Neal, your host and narrator.
0:41.8	Hello, happy Saturday. I hope your weekend is off to a great start. And welcome back to
0:46.6	Optimal Health Daily or O-HD, where I act as your narrator of popular health and fitness blogs.
0:52.9	Don't forget, we have five shows covering a bunch of different topics.
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1:00.5	So I'm going to keep this intro nice and short, so let's get right to today's post and start optimizing your life.
1:17.0	Cheat meals, cheat days Cheat Lives by Mark Fisher of Mark Fisher Fitness.com.
1:20.4	Life is a series of compromises.
1:27.3	We must all find our own balance of work and fun, of pleasure and enjoyment, of veggies and ice cream. A frequent topic of discussion for those
1:30.2	looking to lean out is the cheat meal. A cheat meal can be defined in many ways, but is generally a
1:36.6	chance to eat something that's not in line with the current health and hotness goal. It has too many
1:41.9	calories. It's too processed, or both. Many diets use cheat
1:46.2	meals to give the dieter a mental and culinary break, and in many cases, to prevent the body
1:51.6	from adjusting to the diet. There are several ways of employing cheat meals, so let's take a look at our
1:57.4	options, shall we? 1. The Cheat Day
2:00.8	Many folks who've tried Bill Phillips' iconic Body for Life program have played with this before.
2:07.8	Basically, you eat like a hotness warm machine for six days, protein, veggies, water, unicorn
2:13.2	blood.
2:14.1	Then, once a day, you go nuts and eat whatever you want, ice cream, pizza, candy, unicorn blood. Then, once a day, you go nuts and eat whatever you want, ice cream, pizza, candy,
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