You are only fooling yourself.
Jenna Rizzo, a women’s weight loss coach from Georgiasays a bad habit that kept her from reaching her fitness goals was planning cheat meals.
Rizzo began her fitness journey in 2015, working out hard and often. “I basically started going to the gym one day and I just didn’t stop. You’d think it would lead me to a crazy transformation, but no,” she explained in a TikTok last week.
Sharing the before and after photos, Rizzo noted that the first photo was taken three years after she was working out every day. Still, “my butt was still the same size, my stomach was still soft. I was just very unhappy with the way I looked.”
Rizzo, who has previously gone viral for her 2-2-2 weight loss program, her method for getting shredded in a single season and other fitness tips, claims that cheat meals hindered her to transform her body.
“I tried to eat as clean as possible Monday through Thursday,” Rizzo said. “I’m talking about egg whites and kale every day. Then Friday would roll around and I’d tell myself I deserve a cheat meal.”
She reports that while she was usually able to maintain her healthy eating during the work week, her fetishized Friday cheat meal would turn into a free-for-all.
In a previous post, she shared: “I would have a cheat meal and it would turn into a full cheat weekend. I’m talking eating to the point where I’m literally in so much physical pain – and I continued.”
Her mindset was a combination of “now or never” and “good versus evil.”
“My brain was telling me that these foods are limited and I should eat as much as I can when I can,” she reasoned.
Recent research has identified this phenomenon as “hedonic compensation” – compensating for the loss of pleasure by seeking additional pleasure elsewhere.
Rizzo explains that she perpetuated a cycle of restriction and abandonment for years. “I would lose weight during the week,” she said, “and gain it all back, and maybe some on the weekend.”
She proclaimed, “Cheat meals don’t exist for me now.”
Instead, Rizzo focuses on making sure that 80% to 90% of the food she consumes comes from fresh, whole food sources.
She leaves a margin for what she calls “fun food,” creating an abundance mindset that ensures nothing is off limits and she never feels restricted to the point of craving a cheat meal or weekend binge. .
As she says poetically, “A salad won’t make you skinny and a cookie won’t make you fat.”
A celebrity who keeps going on a cheat day?
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, the 52-year-old actor, has eaten two In-N-Out burgers and two large fries with two different types of tequila in one sitting.
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