Looking at the amount of time you need to spend exercising and you can easily see how a day filled with meals like this will totally nullify the progress you made the week before. Knowing all of this makes it hard to believe that some so called experts recommend "taking the weekend off." Good advice if you’re looking to make your belt useless and would prefer suspenders.

Don’t let this scare you. You can still eat the foods you love, and even eat some foods that are high in calories once in a while.

The whole idea of eating some "junk food" to keep your cravings in check is another good idea gone bad. The whole point is if junk foods were a regular part of your diet in the past, simply cutting them out wholesale can cause some to have uncontrollable cravings. If these cravings aren’t attended to, they’ll eventually cause the person to go into a blind eating frenzy, only to come to days later with an ice cream bucket over their head and mounds of empty food packaging everywhere – or something similar. All joking aside, there is some merit to this. However, the point is to keep cravings under control while you gradually minimize junk from your diet

The good thing is if you’re trying to trim up and burn fat off your body, an occasional day that has you eating a little more calories than usual will trick your metabolism into burning faster. It helps minimize the chance of your metabolism adapting to your lower caloric intake, which means continued fat loss. However, let me say it again, over do it and you start to plump up. I believe if you’re going to eat calorie dense foods like this, you should keep it to a, as in one to a max of two, cheat meals a week.

The idea is not to over indulge in all the crap food that is offered today, and instead to start getting used to living healthy and adopting a full time nutritional plan into your diet.

Just because it’s called a cheat meal, it doesn’t mean you automatically stop using your head. You can minimize the "caloric impact" by splitting the meal up into a quarter serving of your favorite "healthy food," and the rest of your dish made up of your favorite "cheat meal."

This also works for switching the "staples" in your diet. You can go from a fattier and unhealthier type of hamburger, like medium ground beef, and slowly mix it with extra lean ground beef until you’re eating only extra lean.

You can mix your salad dressing with healthier olive oil bit by bit until you’re only using olive oil.

You can also start adding vegetables to your eggs, essentially making an omelet, by adding a few pieces of whatever veggies you want, until you get the desired serving amount. As time goes by you can slowly increase the ratio of healthy to junky, and before you know it you’ll be eating less and less junk.

Don’t limit yourself by thinking you need to keep eating junk foods to stay sane, it’s a load of bull. Your taste buds will eventually adapt to the new foods and dishes you eat, and the truth is you’ll eventually start to crave the healthier foods, especially when you feel the difference they make, inside and outside the gym.

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