Diet: The Best Foods to Eat on Your Cheat Day

Any "good" diet plan will not only help you lose fat, it will also encourage you to pick one day out of the week to eat a non-diet food that you may have been craving; a cheat day. If you eat a sensible portion of a non-diet food on your cheat day, it will only affect your fat-loss progress very little, if at all.

You can choose to eat a sensible portion of just about anything on this day; candy, cake, pizza, etc. But what if I told you that you could eat delicious sweet and fat-rich foods on your cheat day that wouldn't affect your fat-loss progress at all? And that these foods are natural, healthy, and will actually benefit your diet as well as your health.

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It's true, there are certain foods that contain natural sweets and or fats that are just perfect to enjoy on your diet cheat day. They will satisfy even the most demanding sweet tooth, or annoying fat or carbohydrate craving. I know, enough of the talking, just give-up the list of foods, right? Okay, let's begin with one of my own creations.

1. A natural peanut butter and raw honey sandwich on whole wheat bread: 1 tablespoon of raw honey - about 60 calories of carbohydrates. 1 tablespoon of natural peanut butter - about 100 calories of good fat, good carbohydrates, and protein. 2 slices of whole wheat bread - 140 calories. That's a total of 300 calories. Not to mention there's actually no cheating involved.
2. One slice of Marie Callender's frozen Razzleberry Pie: One 1/10 slice of Razzleberry Pie contains 360 calories, 46 grams of carbohydrates, 19 grams of fat, and 16 grams of sugar. Okay, not entirely natural, but it is a great choice for a cheat food.
3. One baked sweet potato with honey and cinnamon: One baked sweet potato contains 103 calories of natural carbohydrates and sugars. One teaspoon of raw honey, 20 calories. Cinnamon, 0 calories. That comes out to 123 calories of all natural sweetness.

With the exception of the Razzleberry Pie (because of the vegetable shortening in the crust, and processed sugar) each one of these natural foods would be a great and healthy choice to eat on your fat-loss diet cheat day. So try some of the delicious foods on this list on your cheat day, and get the absolute most out of your fat-loss diet.