Professor Jane Ogden, a leading health psychologist at the University of Surrey who has spent over

Added: 2026-05-27

[00:00:00]A lot of people right now are doing what is called cheat meals or cheat days. The idea of cheat is so filled with shame and guilt and denial that living your life like that in the longer term can't be good for you psychologically because you're indulging yourself, then you're feeling shame [music] and you know, grim the following day. So that's going to come with negativity. So the day after a cheat day, if you've eaten all the foods that you've told yourself not to eat on that day, maybe you get some pleasure from it. The following day, you're going to feel unpleasant and guilty and grimy and rubbish and then you're going to be critical of yourself.