Is having a high calorie cheat day when cutting beneficial to your metabolism or is it bro science?
I've been cutting at 1800 calories a day since March 1st and have been successful at keeping on track, but every saturday I've jumped off the wagon and ate a bunch of shit about 3000 calories or more.
So far I've lost 8 lbs so I know my cut is working, but are those high calorie days doing more harm than good?
Pic related, it's a typical Sun-Fri dinner
>>36543096
>Is having a high calorie cheat day when cutting beneficial to your metabolism
Yes.
>>36543096
yeah, a SENSIBLE cheat meal/day every 1-2 weeks is good when doing a hard cut.
personally i like to cut hard af at a 750-1k calorie deficit and have a cheat meal on friday which ends up around maintenance or a little over. keeps me psychologically sound and doesn't derail my progress
It's beneficial to increase calories every 5-6 days to regulate leptin signaling after weight starts plateauing on a hard cut.
Generally no, but your body does get "used" to things. That being said, drastic cuts generally will only work efficiently for a couple weeks. Progress will slow after that, unless you have 100lbs to lose.
>>36543292
lets say you are doing a 500 cal deficit daily
how many calories on the "cheat" day?
>>36543324
The bigger the deficit, the bigger the cheat meal.
If your deficit is only 500 calories, eat 500 over maintenance on your cheat day
If its 1000 calories, eat 1000 calories over maintenance
>>36543324
Maintenance kcal would be a refeed. Cheat day insinuates going over maintenance. Whatever really; I cut with PSMF and have a maintenance of like 36-3800 kcal so I just order pizzas on refeeds. Chillin in the 7-9% range.
Cont:
1800 calories isnt' a drastic cut. So long as your cheat days help you stay on track, go for it. But I wouldn't say they are generally beneficial. Although leptin and junk like others have said. But if you aren't cutting carbs too low, which it seems you aren't, then a cheat day won't have much benefit other than mental sanity.
>>36543096
What's the orange stuff on the side? Mashed sweet potatoes? Some kinda rice or garbanzo bean dish? What the heck is that?
>>36543362
cool, was worried about doing this as im cutting pretty well so far (estimated 12-15%, goal is 10% or so)
so the main idea behind a cheat day is it boosts leptin production or whatever? or giving your metabolism a boost?
>>36543096
>he believes the cut and bulk meme
it's all bro science bro
>>36543096
Those paper plates trigher me so fucking hard, but at the same time i would like to get some for when im eating alone to skip dishes
>>36543372
Looks like yams or sweet potatoes
>>36543458
is this the next meme meme, like SS?
>>36543427
>>36543427
Prevents homeostasis from occurring; eating over maintenance, and eating macro ratios that you aren't adjusted to just allows for the regulation in leptin allowing for better hunger responses.
>>36543292
>>36543362
>>36543682
Don't listen to this broscience tripfag retard. He doesn't have a clue what he's talking about, all wikipedia wisdom and google knowledge. He just blurts out whatever he finds that "makes sense" to him in a pathetic attempt to gain status on /fit/ (lol). I've seen him before and he's always like this, his arguments crumbling to pieces when someone who really knows his stuff shows up and calls him out.
Fuck tripfags.
>>36543682
well today is as good a day as ever for a cheat day, being easter and all.
