Are they useful if your training hard/ trying to lose weight? Is it better to have a little of something you fancy now and again or wait until your cheat day and eat whatever you want? I suppose if you wait until the specific day you run the risk of over doing it, eating too much and undoing your previous weeks good work, right?
7 week fat loss plateau? I call BS. Eat less, cardio more than 30 mins a day before you sleep. Spend more than you eat. Accept hunger as part of it. Plateau gone. And if you eat right you'll still have energy. To me plateau just means my body has found calorie equiliberium and is ad******g to the new lifestyle. If I wanna drop further from there, then I repeat what I did above. obviously there is going to be a limit to where it starts getting unhealthy. Did he say fat is important to produce that one hormone? Even at a weight loss diet/training regiment you should be eating animal and fish/plant fats. Cheat days I think are important to recovery, but In the fat loss context I don't know how important it is. I am still cutting weight for my upcoming fight. Tomorrow is my cheat/rest day so I lifted weights today. Lifted heavy, low reps. I lost quite a bit of strength. Did I lose all muscle and no fat? not true. I don't have much more fat mass to lose, and I still have to make weight so I lost muscle mass. Simple as that. Was not caused by my lack of mastery of Leptins. Or did I totally miss the point of the article? If I did, seriously, someone please enlighten me.
Yeah. Not right before I sleep, but I do it after dinner. I guess the point is not to eat after the last workout, and my last workout shouldn't be a strength excercise (where I should eat afterwards). But yes, I think rest days are important for the reason not to overtrain.
As long as you are still taking in your necessary nutrients and minerals for the day, it's okay to cheat without it impairing your hard-earned gains.