Cheat Days
Fuel Your Strength
Steph Gaudreau
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🗓️ 20 July 2018
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
The concept of cheat days is still super popular in the nutrition realm, and I'm here to share 5 unpopular truths about why implementing cheat days could be holding you back. You don't have to eat perfectly to see results either, so how can you navigate the language and concepts around eating to still reach your goals while not making yourself crazy in the process?
If you've been struggling to find balance with your diet / way of eating, and you think that cheat days will help you get "control" over yourself, please take a listen to this edition of Fierce Love Friday before you go any further. Often, cheat days have the exact opposite effect, leaving you feeling disempowered.
As always, YMMV and this way of approaching food may work for you, but for the vast majority of people I've worked with, it's a recipe for disappointment.
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| 0:00.0 | What's going on? |
| 0:02.0 | It's Fierce Love Friday. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm your host Steph Godro. |
| 0:06.0 | This is episode 118 and the topic of today's rant cheat |
| 0:11.0 | cheat days. |
| 0:12.0 | This topic was actually suggested by my wonderful friend Amy |
| 0:18.2 | Sueen of Small Eats. Definitely go check out her website and all of her amazing stuff on Instagram and |
| 0:25.2 | Amy said hey Steph you know you should do a companion podcast to this article that I wrote about basically five ways that cheat days are |
| 0:38.0 | ruining your life and so I decided to indulge her and all of you in that. |
| 0:43.4 | So remember this podcast is in addition to my Tuesday episodes of Harder to Kill radio where |
| 0:50.5 | I bring on incredible guests and we have a much more civilized conversation |
| 0:55.3 | than these rants and I think it's a great juxtaposition between all of the amazing resources that are out there in the world and then me just kind of getting on here and talking about my philosophy and what I believe in. |
| 1:09.0 | So, last year I wrote this post on cheat days. |
| 1:14.0 | Man, let me just take a who saw right here is cheat days, |
| 1:20.0 | believe it or not, I know a lot of you in this community, a lot of my amazing listeners know that cheat days are just kind of bullshit. |
| 1:28.0 | But there are still so many memes and coaching things and things I see on |
| 1:34.8 | Instagram and people talking about how amazing cheat days are |
| 1:39.2 | and they just can't wait for their cheat day |
| 1:41.1 | and they're just gonna go ham on their cheat day and you know I don't think there is much in the in the sort of nutrition and diet world that's more damaging than the concept of cheat days. And so I'm going to talk about |
| 1:55.2 | some of the main points from that post. I will also link the post directly in the show notes that are on your app so you can go ahead and check that out. |
| 2:05.9 | But here's the thing, Cheetes are fuckery. |
| 2:14.8 | Let's just get that out. |
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