Ep #23: Cheat Days
The Stop Binge Eating Podcast
Kirstin Sarfde
4.8 • 559 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2019
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Should you have cheat days? It depends on how you define cheat days and how they affect you. There's a lot of opinions on this topic and in this episode I'm giving you mine.
I'm sharing with you what I think the downside of cheat days are as well as how I think they're best incorporated in the life of someone who binge eats.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast with KirstenSafty episode number 23. |
| 0:05.2 | Welcome to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast. It's time for you to end your food obsession and begin |
| 0:10.7 | feeling confident and in control around food. You are absolutely capable of eliminating |
| 0:16.3 | binge eating from your life. And I'm going to show you how by giving you simple tools and |
| 0:20.6 | insights that you can apply in your own life. I'm your to show you how by giving you simple tools and insights |
| 0:21.0 | that you can apply in your own life. I'm your host, Kirst and Sarty. Now let's get to it. |
| 0:28.7 | Hi, how's it going? Great. Good. Then let's jump right into today's topic. Cheat days. |
| 0:37.0 | Should you have cheat days? What a big question, |
| 0:39.5 | and it's one that I get asked kind of often. I guess it depends on what you consider a cheat |
| 0:45.4 | day to look like, how you structure your cheat days, and how you plan for them. There are lots |
| 0:50.4 | of different opinions about them. A quick Google search will show you lots of them, |
| 0:54.5 | whether you should, how often, what you should eat, et cetera. And today I'm giving you my opinion. |
| 1:00.0 | So I want to start with saying that I'm not completely anti-cheat days. I think they can be useful, |
| 1:05.4 | but there's some things about them that I think can throw you off and make your binge eating |
| 1:10.0 | worse. Starting with the fact |
| 1:11.9 | that they're called cheat days, what a terrible name, isn't it? I mean, really, if you think about it, |
| 1:20.3 | cheating has a bad connotation. It means you're doing something wrong. It means you're being |
| 1:25.9 | bad. You're cheating on yourself, |
| 1:27.8 | which is not a nice thing to do. So many people who binge eat gets stuck in labeling foods as |
| 1:33.3 | good or bad, as well as labeling their behaviors that way. So adding another label like cheating |
| 1:38.8 | may not be so useful. And then the other part of the term, day. We make the cheating on ourselves and our |
| 1:46.5 | eating plan last for an entire day. We can do whatever we want for the entire day. Now, |
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