What's your take on cheat days or cheat meals? I'm dying for some fried chicken with mashed potatoes and biscuits O_o
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To have a planned meal of eating something not paleo say for a special occasion at a restaurant is a lot safer than giving in to a random craving for no good reason. When I have cravings for random foods I find a paleo recipe which I can make to satisfy that craving. Sometimes just the act of looking up the recipes is enough to keep me from falling off. If I do end up making it, that typically works to satisfy the craving. The other thing I've always found helpful to deter me from cheating or being lazy and going to a restaurant for convenience or cravings is to always keep my refrigerator filled with expensive (to me) meats and vegetables and fruits because if I have stuff that I've spent my hard-earned money on sitting at home I have less interest in spending more money for crappy food out in a restaurant and risking my good stuff going bad. I hope that makes sense. |
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Paleo-friendly and DELICOUS fried Chicken Oven 350 (Cook time is 30 minutes) 2 Chicken breast (or whatever you want 1-2 eggs for egg wash Utz Pork rinds - They are Pork skin and Sea Salt Electric food chopper Pulse the Pork rinds into a "flour/meal" Egg wash chicken roll in "Breading" Cook for 30 minutes Change underwear As for Mashed potatoes - Mashed cauliflour/parsnips/sweet potato? With a ton of Kerrygold |
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If you're not craving something that will give you immediate consequences (bread if you're Celiac, soy if you're allergic, etc) then go for it once in a while! Sometimes I really just need a big bowl of black bean soup, so I eat things with beans a few times a month. Sometimes I really want a smoked Gouda, gruyere, and sharp cheddar grilled cheese on rye pumpernickel swirl, but I'm gluten intolerant so I try not to give into that nearly so often. |
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Cheat meals are a bad idea for me because they lead to cheat months. I consider it a "deviation" not a cheat though, because I mean, cheat just sounds silly. |
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To cheat is to act unfairly to gain an advantage. You gain no advantage apart from satisfying a temporary craving (like an animal), and it will only serve to increase such cravings in the future, instead of them going away (which they do, in time). Do what you wish, but at least be honest with yourself :) |
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I can't do it. My body and brain responds to carbs like a recovering alcoholic or addict would to their substance of choice. One wouldn't tell someone in recovery to have a drink now and then. While I'm now fat adapted, some part of me thinks to carbs every day. Granted, that's the way I'm built/cursed. If one can handle it, sure. |
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Where are you in your goal/ Do you have a goal? Paleo is different for everyone and I for one really enjoy that aspect...many paths up the same mountain. Depending on what you need Paleo to help you accomplish, you're either still moving toward your goal which there is no set time or date since, you’re the only one currently looking to achieve your goal…or you’re conducting a self-inflicted control study to establish what your body is now capable of contending with IE.. Chicken with mashed potatoes and biscuits, because after you've eaten it, you'll know quite quickly if you'll be eating that again. I know this might simply come down to a matter of semantics, but I hear people talking about cheat days who follow no particular way of eating, they just eat what they want anyway and still have cheat days mind blown I’ve also read some tasty sounding gravy ideas for those potatoes; let us know how it turns out for you! Truth. |
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I don't plan cheats because it is too hard for me to get back on track. If you can give in to your cravings and be done with it, go for it! |
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Dip the bird in coconut flour/egg, season it up & fry it in coconut oil. Use a ton of butter for the potatoes. |
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Almond flour + sea salt+ pepper Egg bath of egg+water+ franks You will thank me later |
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