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No Cheat Day Needed Healthy Living Made Simple. No Cheat Day Needed. No Cheat Day Needed is your one-stop-shop for simplifying what "healthy" truly means.

By sharing useful graphics, information, and most of all, delicious recipes, I'll help you decide for yourself what being "healthy" means for you.

12/23/2025

Your yearly reminder that you don’t owe anyone any explanation. Enjoy allllllll the treats.

Especially anything sugar cookies related. ‘Tis the season.

If you agree with me on more than one of these, I think that makes us best friends.I know most of these are unpopular. B...
12/23/2025

If you agree with me on more than one of these, I think that makes us best friends.

I know most of these are unpopular. But I have developed very strong food preferences over the years and these are hills I’m willing to die on. Mostly.

12/18/2025

Can Four Loko look healthy with a simple rebrand? You bet!

This one is the ultimate test because the original formula is just… bonkers. But what do you think of this new version?

This is one I originally designed two years ago (wild) and wanted to bring it back because it flew under the radar then, and there are lots of new faces here today.

Let me know what else I should try to rebrand!

I love cookies. I also love baking with protein powder. So I’m sharing all of my favorite high-protein Christmas cookies...
12/17/2025

I love cookies. I also love baking with protein powder. So I’m sharing all of my favorite high-protein Christmas cookies here for ya!

Get to the recipes easily through my bio link or at cheatdaydesign.com/christmas-cookies

1. No Bake PB Blossoms
2. Snowball Cookies (a personal favorite)
3. Gingerbread
4. Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
5. Festive Cookie Skillet
6. Peppermint Patties
7. Shortbread Cookies
8. Snickerdoodles
9. Hot Cocoa Cookies
10. Molasses Crackle Cookies

You certainly don’t need to get your protein from cookies, but when they taste this good, why not?

The macros vary with each recipe, so click around to your favorite and you’ll see the full macros front and center!

12/16/2025

Have you noticed protein content getting called out more on labels recently? If you have, then congratulations, you are also a macro nerd 🤓 It’s a good club to be in.

Also, if you don’t know the hot ham water reference, you need to do some serious introspection.

menu nutrition guide for all my macro trackers out there! With some notes:1) My page used to be mainly infographics lik...
12/15/2025

menu nutrition guide for all my macro trackers out there! With some notes:

1) My page used to be mainly infographics like these. Shoutout to anyone that has been around for a few years to remember all of ‘em. My plan is to update them and bring them back, along with my other content, coming into the new year.

2) You dont have to eat Taco Bell. If you think its terrible, thats cool. This is for people who like Taco Bell and are curious about the options.

3) In an effort to be as helpful as possible, I included saturated fat and sodium content on here too. There are other things like fiber and sugar, but including evvvverything would be too much of a cluster.

OK that’s all for now. If there are other fast food / chain restaurants you’d want a guide for, let me know!

12/12/2025

There are lots of misleading food names out there and I’m pretty sure they all came from a meeting like this.

I recently ate a rice cake and realized just how angry it makes me that they are called cake. Because they suck. And cake doesn’t suck.

Surely there are lots out there. What other ones did I miss??

12/11/2025

Hey …can we talk about this?

I saw this monstrosity at Costco the other day and shared it on my stories and everyone was as confused and terrified as I was. So I’m bringing it to the masses now for an explanation, because I refuse to believe this is real.

I’m scared.

12/09/2025

I’ve never had energy drinks before, so I figured now is as good a time as any.

I tried to just find as many plain/original flavors as I could get my hands on because those are the ones I was curious about having no idea what the flavor is supposed to be.

and were surprisingly palatable. To be fair, I think I accidentally flipped them in my ranking. was a thing of nightmares.

Since most of you are actual energy drink consumers, how was my assessment and ranking? As bad as my soda one?

12/05/2025

gives you wiiiiiings. That’s what they tell me anyway, I’ve never actually had one.

To show you how powerful branding can be, here’s Red Bull branded like a healthy energy drink. No lies were told, just a little bit of clever marketing.

What else should I try to rebrand? Hit me with your challenges!

12/03/2025

San Francisco just filed a massive lawsuit against Big Food (Kraft, Coke, General Mills), claiming they used “to***co tactics” to hook us on ultra-processed foods, and its very reminiscent of what we saw in the 90s against to***co.

The lawsuit claims that these companies know their products make people sick but they continue to market them (especially towards children) to maximize profits.

The problem is, there is currently no legal definition for “ultra-processed food.” And trying to create one in a courtroom could be a slippery slope.

If the definition is too broad, it doesn’t just catch Cheetos or Twinkies. It could also flag things like bread, protein bars, oat milk, Greek yogurt, etc. Too specific, and there are plenty of ways around it.

Demonizing ALL processed food ignores a huge reality: for many families, shelf-stable, processed foods are the only affordable or accessible way to get calories on the table. If this lawsuit just raises prices without solving the root cause, which could certainly happen, it hurts the consumers it claims to protect.

The goal shouldn’t be to fear-monger everything in a package with a blanket warning. It should be clear, honest labeling so YOU can make the choice. If any changes end up being made to food labels because of this, I just hope it’s something actually helpful for the consumer.

Let me know what you think👇

** I know that this conversation has the potential to turn aggressively political. My goal is to just bring this story to your attention because the whole “deceptive marketing” thing is perfectly in my wheelhouse. I’m not trying to make it any deeper than that **

12/02/2025

If anyone out there is going to argue that you shouldn’t love exercise, then I feel for them.

I view exercise the same way as I view dieting: if it makes you miserable, you’re never going to stick with it. Sometimes eating in a calorie deficit sucks, but you don’t have to eat food that makes you miserable. And sometimes waking up in the morning to exercise sucks, but you don’t have to endure workouts that you hate.

If your goals are specific to improving a certain lift or you specifically want to grow your glutes then yes, certain programs, rep ranges, volume, etc, will make a difference.

But I am talking to the 90% of people out there who don’t necessarily have a specific goal and just want to get stronger, feel better, and build habits.

Find what you enjoy.

When you view this whole fitness thing as a life-long journey, it’s impossible o screw it up. I used to do the single bodypart “bro split” for YEARS. It is far from optimal and I wouldn’t recommend it. But I absolutely loved it and it kept me coming back to the gym. And even today, sometimes I miss those single bodypart sessions, so I’ll randomly dedicate a week to just that, even though I know it isn’t optimal.

Find what you enjoy, even if it isn’t optimal. Love your workouts.

Because if you don’t, you’re never going to stick with it.

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