Yesterday I binged. Not like pulling a Charlie Sheen and getting all crazy wasted. This was the good kind of bingeing, more like a really great day of shopping….
Tim Ferriss, in his book 4-Hour Body, avocates one day out of the slow-carb diet week as your necessary cheat day. It resets the metabolism by increasing leptin levels and lets your body know it’s not starving, there’s no impending famine, and there’s no need to lock down those fat deposits.
Here’s how my binge day looked:
9am: started the day with a good high-protein meal with legumes
- Warm water with lemon
- 3 pastured scrambled eggs with spinach and mushrooms, black beans and lacto-fermented salsa (soooo good, thanks Cheeseslave!)
10am:
- 6, yes 6 chocolate-chip + blueberry pumpkin pancakes with real maple syrup
- Coffee with cinnamon
- 50 air squats and 25 wall presses
1pm:
- French toast bagel
4pm:
- California Crunch bagel with honey walnut cream cheese
- Tons of strawberries
- Coffee with cinnamon
7pm:
- Half a pizza – whole wheat crust, artichokes, meatballs, mushrooms and tons of mozzarella
- 40 air squats
- Kombucha – 16 oz
9pm:
- Chocolate croissant
- Raw milk – 1 c
I found the cheat day both fulfilling and a bit of a letdown at the same time. I was really only craving the pancakes and pizza. The other stuff I just ate because I could. Even pushing in the croissant at 9pm…I didn’t really want it, or even enjoy it that much, but I could, so I did. What a hugely liberating feeling that’s become. To know that I can binge on anything within days has been completely removing the cravings for me. In fact, the one thing I thought about including during my binge, homemade chocolate chip cookies, I completely forgot about. I didn’t crave them during the week and I didn’t crave them on my binge day either (to my incredible disbelief). I guess once the candy is no longer denied, it’s no longer really desired. Must see if that little gem of wisdom will work with the kids. Don’t get me wrong though, come next Saturday, I will still unapologetically snarf down that warm gooeylicious croissant oozing with melting chocolate, whether I like it or not.
What do you think about the binge day idea? Do you think it would make it easier to stay true to a diet with a built-in binge day? What would you include on your binge days?
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