EFFECTIVE DIET

Want to Learn How to Have an Effective Diet & Exercise Plan? Try These 3 Ideas
By Thomas B. Chuong

When you subject yourself to undergoing a pretty strict diet and exercise plan, there are just some days when you feel exhausted doing it. This is especially true if you're the type of person who has no self-discipline at all.

As such, it pays if you will allow yourself to have some 'cheat' days. What this exactly means is that for every accomplishment that you make on your exercise and diet plan, you will have a reward for yourself when you can do one or a couple of things that you would usually not do under your fitness plan. It's easy to get away with it, and you can consider your cheat days to be a reward for your accomplishments in meeting your goals.

So what are the things that you need to do during your cheat days? Take a look at the following list:

1. Relax.

Remember that your cheat days is not all about reversing the progress that you've already done in following a strict regimen. Whether it's a diet-focused or exercise-focused plan, there is no sense in having a cheat day if it will just destroy the progress that you have made so far. Basically, what you need to do is relax the rules just a bit during your cheat days.

If your diet involves counting calories, then consider your cheat day to be a time to ditch your inner calorie-counting-calculator. This does not mean that you can devour every food that you crave for - just ease up a bit on yourself and break the rules a little.

2. Savor the pleasures that you will feel during your cheat days.

If you're on a really strict diet or exercise regimen, you can use your cheat days as your motivator. You'll be surprised at how rewarding yourself a bit can make you feel refreshed and even more determined to go back to your original diet or fitness plan so that you can easily and quickly reach your fitness goals.

3. After accomplishing a major feat in your diet or fitness plan, reward yourself with a cheat day.

Let's say that your goal is to lose 20 pounds during your entire program. Once you have managed to lose 5 pounds, reward yourself and work on losing another 5 pounds. Do this until your reach your original goal of losing 20 pounds overall.

Again, remember that the point of having cheat days is just to reward yourself for the accomplishments that you made so far - but it should not reverse any progress that you already made.

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