5 Ways To Drop Cheat Day Weight Fast...

 Kara...

Keagen.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.-Churchill

Cheating is such a rough word. So rough in fact the implications reach too far to address in this post. Simply noted, cheating is straying from a plotted path. Having a planned cheat meal or day, is following a path, and fine after you have reached your appearance and performance goals. This planned day(s) of eating something off the paleo reservation, or something unmeasured is simply variety, and can even be helpful if used correctly, not justified poorly. Again if your where you want your body to be, how you want to look, and feel how you want to feel, the occasional variety day, or meal every 7-14 days should be cool. Cheating is bad.  

Now after you hit where you want to be, it should be totally cool to enjoy a meal or day every so often. As long as it does not regress your achievements, and does not add to improper health implications, then by all means, indulge. Infrequency is your savior as some of us can handle a meal a week, some every two weeks, while some can handle entire days, but the unanimous vote comes back the same. After every variety meal, or meals containing foods not approved by Paleo standards....we always feel like shit. So how do we rid ourselves of the shit food hangover faster?

1. Dandelion Root, or Uva Ursa:

Natural diuretics. Usually when we eat foods that disagree, or that are not on our plan they tend to be carbohydrate. Carbohydrates lead to an excessive storage of water, which also increases the blood pressure. Not to mention makes you feel super heavy on a pull-up. For every gram of stored glycogen the body will hold three grams of water. 

Supplementing with dandelion root or UU for a few days should eliminate that heavy excessive feeling of water loggedness, and at least make you feel like five pull-ups isn't thirty.

2. Extra Cardio:

I know, the cursed cardio. but that extra gas in the tank can go somewhere, and multiple WODs may be too intense, but a few longer bouts of running, rowing, or swimming can burn up to 400 calories at a time. If you consumed 2000+ calories of horribleness for your variety, a few days of extra cardiovascular work can take you right back to where you were before your variety day. 

Choose to do this before breakfast and you maximize fat burning.

3. Multiple WODs:

Enjoy the suck. Inevitably functioning at all after a sub par meal or two is difficult, but if you attack your WODs the very next day, and spin all that nasty feeling into a day of 2-3 WODs, you just may feel better faster. You clearly have the excess energy for it....might as well take advantage.

4. Use Cinnamon, and Grapefruit:

Half a grapefruit when you rise right before cardio sets the fat burning process up for success. It creates a nice thermogenic effect especially when taken on an empty stomach, that will help you catch back up faster than coffee. However, grapefruit seems to increase the rate at which medications you may be on are absorbed. Check the back of your bottles, grapefruit may be a no no.

Cinnamon simply acts as an insulin buffer. It makes you fill full faster. The day after a variety day your usually cool with less food, but the day after that, you are very well famished. Cinnamon helps with those hunger pangs due to its control over insulin, which therefore plays a role in controlling gherlin (the hunger hormone).

5. No Carbs:

If your a regular carb eater...stop. Even if your closer to RXD, which lies below 150g per day...sill stop. Aim for less than 50 grams of carbohydrates for at least five days. The aim being to send the body rapidly back into ketosis.

Increase your protein while you do this, and realize that fat is your fuel. The Shift will occur, and you will reinstate your bodies love for fat as fuel while at the same time realizing the body and performance of the you before a variety, or cheat day.

Again, variety is the spice of life, and after we have attained our goals, we can lace in foods infrequently that would otherwise be detrimental. In fact on some occasions I believe they can help. As long as we are planning divergent behavior meant to aid a healthy lifestyle, were cool, its when we make excuses for unhealthy actions that is unacceptable. 

Use the fantastic five above. There are many more, but I wanted to hit ones that are sometimes forgotten along with items that seem to quell the post variety day blues the fastest, and put us back on the Paleo road to salvation.

Strength:

Rest

For Score:

5-Hang Power Cleans 95/135

5-Ring Push-ups

5-Box Jumps 24/30

AMRAP 15 Minutes

Post rounds to comments:

Comments

[Angela]

Josh-good post at the right time! Been eating like shit and have been a total bitch...now I know why. Doing extra cardio in the a.m., buying me some grapefruit,scaling back on the carbs now where does a person buy dandelion root?

[Keagan]

Ha ha, are you not blessed with dandelions in your yard Angela?

[Bonnie Mac]

Angela - dandelion root is in all the vitamin/supplement sections of most shopping establishments.

As for this wko, I absolutely loved it. Great start to the morning and glad to be back with my 6 AMers today! I miss you guys!

9 2/3+
*24" box w/ 1 45 lb plate (not sure what that would actually measure, but a little extra height, anyway)

Have a fantastic weekend everyone!

[holly]

11 1/3 rds
whos excited THIS GAL-I did the 24" box for the workout and the only other time i had jumped on that box was on max box jump day and i got to 28"!

[Shelly]

Great job Holly!!!
7 rds (m)
75# Hang power cleans
12" box, still...ugh!!!

[jb]

Holly

I was unaware of that sorry....great work.

[Amelia]

great stuff that I clearly need to be doing when I get back stateside. I'm not cheating much per say... but have serious lack of options here (it's an odd situation to say the least). Anyway... anxious to be back with you all.

[runmelrun]

6 2/3

[heather]

Check out this video about slosh pipes (a pvc pipe filled w/ water) - my friend from Crossfit West Chester did a workout w/ these things this week. They got up w/ them from the ground and then did overhead carries into OHS. Looks like fun to me!

http://media.crossfit.com/cf-video/CrossFit_CLTSloshPipe1.mov

Happy Birthday Mitchell!

[jb]

Heather....u do know we have em whenever u wanna use em

[keena]

9rounds M, did 85#hc for three rounds then jumped down to 75#, knee pushups and did the sm box with two plates maybe 20" or22".agree with u bonnie that was a great workout
Great job holly
And shelly know exactly how u feel...u will get there! And hopefully soon i will too!

[ASH]

13 rounds

[heather]

Clearly I missed that day - i'm game for a slosh pipe wod!

[Min]

12 1/3 rounds

Ash you're an animal... couldn't catch ya.

[Marc]

8 rnds

[Keagan]

8 1/3 rounds

[Jen]

8 rds m (85#)

[Jon]

15 2/3

[Dave]

10 rds m 95# cleans

That was a fun one!

[Dana]

3 rds (m)

[#10]

8 1/3 rounds, 135lbs cleans, 33 inch box. I can't wait for max jump day. Today was recovery for wat? lol

[Gina.E]

11 Rds