{"id":173329,"date":"2023-01-30T12:32:26","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T11:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tapasmagazine.es\/?p=173329"},"modified":"2023-01-30T12:39:57","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T11:39:57","slug":"tip-personal-trainer-cheat-meals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tapasmagazine.es\/en\/tip-personal-trainer-cheat-meals\/","title":{"rendered":"Here’s the trick to getting cheat meals right, according to one personal trainer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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One of your resolutions this January has probably been to eat a healthy and balanced diet. All nutritionists advise that, in addition to eating a balanced diet, you should also leave room for one or two free meals a week. This is known as a cheat meal<\/strong>. You should also make room for those less healthy cravings, so that your healthy eating is more sustainable over time and even brings you more benefits, such as boosting your metabolism or increasing muscle mass. But you have to do it the right way, so you don’t ruin your good habits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Personal trainer and ex-Marine, Patrick Dale<\/strong>, is a fitness expert at Fitness Volt<\/a> and has published several books on the subject. Now, he has shared a very useful guide for you to integrate these cheat meals into your weekly diet in the right way<\/strong>, according to Forbes magazine<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Make a schedule<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It is important that you plan when these cheat meals will take place, so that you can keep track of them and it is easier to stick to them. Otherwise, you are likely to be tempted more than once.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do not set more than one cheat meal<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Patrick Dale advises choosing only one cheat meal, for example on Friday or Saturday nights. Try to stick to it, and don’t prolong the cheat meal and turn it into a cheat day, because it will be counterproductive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cheat meals are not binge eating<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Many people associate the cheat meal moment with a real junk food feast in which you have free rein to eat anything and everything. The ideal is to maintain a balance without losing control. In other words, you can’t go from a healthy diet to an unprecedented binge, because it will end up making you feel bad. The fitness expert suggests sensible control in these cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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