The weekend just went by really fast, hasn’t it"! Most of us on a weight loss diet, tend to schedule cheat meals during weekends because it’s the time we hit the party scene, go for date nights, attend events, and find time to catch up with friends and family. People do look forward to indulging in guilty foods during these days because they feel they have earned those meals by sticking to the diet religiously and working out every single day of the week, but once cheat meal has been done and dusted with, and food coma sets in (sleepiness or drowsiness after a large meal), there’s a common tendency to feel guilty and horrible for having let the guards down, to not have counted calories, to have lost the will power around yummy food. Now, here’s why that happens – 1). Most cheat meals that people indulge tend to be high in refined carbs, sugar or sodium, that causes water retention and bloating and that’s when that terrible feeling kicks in. 2). – Cheat meals do often get converted into a ?cheat day? and then into a cheat weekend, and once you are done with the cheat meal, you feel absolutely horrible, feeling guilty for having reached back to square one. 3). Overeating can cause bloating, discomfort, stomach pain, cramping, gassiness, and also indigestion.
There’s a tendency to feel terrible and ashamed ruining the whole week’s effort, kicking yourself for lack of will power, especially if you are a newbie. You may...