It seems that people are learning the Cheat meals or Cheat days to help them overcome craving after starvation mode of dieting. They use Cheat Days as their weekly excuse to indulge not only in their favorite foods, but also a considerable amount of alcohol.
That's a really bad idea and I know it.
The whole purpose of the Cheat Day is to upregulate leptin levels, resetting metabolism and creating a hormonal environment that is conducive to fat burning.
However, alcohol consumption pretty much cancels out all the positive benefits. In fact, alcohol consumption has been shown to acutely reduce plasma leptin levels which is in direct opposition to everything you are trying to accomplish with a Cheat Day.
In the end, Cheat Days plus Alcohol equals to Fat GAIN. That's a weekend disaster after being good in exercise and diet during the weekdays.
Does that mean that you can’t have a drink on your Cheat Day?
No, but anything more than 2 drinks will begin to have a negative effect.
Basically, if you’re feeling the effects of the alchohol you consumed, you drank too much.
When you have goals to attain, it requires some level of sacrifice. In other words, you have to give up things of lower order (priority) to receive things of higher power (priority).
We're constantly making decision all the time. In the morning, what do you choose to eat breakfast (or do you eat breakfast)?
How about lunch time? What do you eat? Where do you eat? Do you eat alone or with your friends or co-workers?
At the end of day, what do you have for dinner? After dinner, do you crash on the sofa, watch TV and munch snacks? Or do you go for a walk or some exercise?
If alcohol is more important than your fat loss goals, that is certainly a decision you’ll need to make.
