Weekly cheat meal
Six days of measured eating, then one planned meal with nothing off the menu
One meal a week, on a fixed day, eaten without counting anything. The other six days stay strict, and people who eat this way describe the meal as a pressure valve that makes the rest of the week easier to hold, and as a reward earned rather than stolen. Size varies wildly, from a burger and fries to spreads running into thousands of calories. The routine is the point, not the quantity.
People on record
Sorted by strength of stance
Does it: documented as part of their own routine. Recommends: explicitly advises other people to do it. Discusses: covered it substantively without clear personal adoption; this can include criticism or disagreement.
- Dwayne JohnsonDoes it
Actor and former WWE champion · The Rock
Sunday is cheat meal day. By 2018 CNBC could catalog the Instagram posts: plates of sushi at 1 a.m., chocolate chip banana pancakes with syrup and peanut butter, cookies with peanut butter, a turkey sub and brownies. He has said he makes his cheat meals epic because everyone works hard and only lives once, and he tells followers not to cheat themselves.
Source: CNBC: Check out Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson's epic 1 a.m. 'cheat meal'
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