If you’ve been a reader of mine for some time, you probably know that I’m a big proponent of 
“cheat meals” to actually increase your fat loss efforts and keep your metabolic rate higher. This is basically strategic planned overeating at certain times while keeping overall weekly calorie intake where it needs to be for fat loss.
One problem many people face when trying to lose fat is that their results seem to stall after they’ve tried to restrict calories for too long. Restricting calories for too long causes your body to fight back and reduce your metabolic rate. This is a simple survival tactic as your body thinks a possible famine is on the way so it needs to hold on to your body fat and start conserving calories.
To overcome this effect and keep your fat loss efforts on track, you need to fool your body into thinking that food is abundant again, so it can elevate your metabolic rate once again.
This all has to do with manipulating levels of the hormone leptin in your body by strategically overeating at certain times and by shifting carbohydrate intake throughout the week.
