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The Cabral Concept

3701: The Best Time to Enjoy Your Cheat Meal (WW)

The Cabral Concept

Dr. Stephen Cabral

Kids & Family, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2026

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Are cheat meals helping your progress, or quietly sabotaging your success?
 
 
On today's episode, we break down the truth about "cheat meals" (or flex meals) and why timing may matter more than the meal itself.
 
 
You'll discover the biggest mistakes people make, the best time to enjoy a cheat meal, and how to approach it in a way that supports your results rather than derails them.
 
 
We also touch on how a well-timed cheat meal may actually play a role in metabolism, hormones, and long-term consistency.
 
 
Tune in to Episode 3701 to learn how to enjoy your cheat meal without compromising your progress. Enjoy the show, and let me know your thoughts!
 

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0:56.7

Welcome to the Cabral concept, where board certified doctor of naturopathy, Dr. Stephen

1:01.5

Cabral shares with you exactly how you can reverse aging, take back your health, and live a

1:07.1

life full of energy and passion with new 20-minute episodes every single day to keep you

1:12.4

healthy and engaged. Now, here's your host, Dr. Stephen Cabral. All right, everybody, welcome

1:19.4

back to the show. Today, I want to share with you the best time to enjoy your cheat meals

1:23.7

and why cheat meals aren't necessarily going to derail your progress, whether it's health-based,

1:31.4

weight gain, weight loss-based, or other. What I want to share with you is that there is actually

1:36.4

much more to the equation and timing might have more to do with it than absolutely anything.

1:43.1

So I want to share with you the absolute best time to

1:45.2

enjoy that cheat mail and also what not to do. So here's the issue. A lot of cheat meals can

1:53.0

backfire on people. And the reason is, is that a cheap meal very easily can turn into a cheat

1:59.6

night or even a cheat day. When that happens, you go from having

2:04.7

an extra 500 calories or so at a meal to an extra 2,000 or 4,000 calories. It is so easy to get

2:14.0

that many calories in. Literally, when you look at higher fat foods, every gram of fat that we're

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