Summary: Cheat days. Many diet plans tell you to take a day off a week and eat anything you want. The idea is that you minimize your calories during the week to an unhealthy level and with one day of binge eating you make up the difference, but not completely. By the end of the week you had a deficit of calories and you lost weight, hopefully. Well, what happens when you start eating the correct number of calories for to reach your goal weight, as we suggest to everyone, and you don't stop the cheat day? Charles wrote in with just such a situation. He called them "unscheduled refeeds", but they ended up just being binges. Christy wrote in asking about the Fat 2 Fit iPhone app. Well, such a thing doesn't exist yet, but we do have a web application that anyone can use on their smartphone, regardless of brand or operating system. Just visit http://m.fat2fitradio.com on your phone to check it out. Friend of the show, Dr. Rick, sent us a link to a newsletter for physicians about what the long term benefit of popular diets. Jeff talks about the conclusions of the piece. On the Web Report, Jeff shares an article from About.com that claims to have the "Secret Weapons for Weight Loss". It's a good article and Jeff gives us the highlights. What is the single best exercise that you should do for overall fitness? Is it the butterfly stroke? The burpee? The squat? None of them? A journalist at the New York Times had the same question. She asked multiple professors of kinesiology, the guys that might know, and came up with a reasonable answer. Links Mentioned in the Show: BMR Calculator Mobile Fat 2 Fit Radio site Secret Weapons of Weight Loss The Single Best Exercise Recipe of the Week: Homemade Chocolate Protein Bars Motivational Quote: "It's not where you are today that counts. It's where you are headed." - Arthur F. Lenehan
