Cheat meal v 80/20

Cheat meal, most people know what they are, most people have one or two a week, however are they everything they are cracked up to be? You eat clean very healthy food all week, stick to foods such as rice, fish and veg really looking forward to the weekend where you are going to enjoy pizza, chips, maybe a burger and ice cream, now can you see what is wrong with this scenario?

If you were to track your cheat meal you would probably realise it's turned into a cheat day, maybe cheat weekend with the view on Monday i will eat clean again. Now also whilst tracking you have probably realised you have actually eaten a good 2000 calories + which means you have prob un done all of your hard work in one day, now if you are trying to loose weight and each week the scale isn't moving and you are getting discouraged, maybe this is why?

So this leads to the other scenario eating 80/20 meaning eating healthily for 80% of the time and the other 20 you have what you want, be it a slice of cake, a slice of pizza or even an ice cream.. This means you can have a few treats a day and it won't do any damage to your diet because you haven't gone stupid and everything is counted into your diet

Which one of the two sounds better to you? Me I would personally do the 80/20 rule because I'd rather eat cake and not feel guilty about it, now I am not saying it's wrong to have a cheat meal, or weekend, we are human and what's the point of things if we can't enjoy it?

However we all need to be accountable for our actions and realise where we are going wrong, so if you are having cheat weekends and struggling with weight loss maybe this is the reason why!