Q:  When I first began bodybuilding, I used to have "cheat meals" in the middle of my diets, and then would maintain a "one cheat meal per week" schedule all year long. In the scheme of effectiveness, now that I'm older, what is the best time to have a cheat meal? Morning or night? Weekend or weekday? A: The best advice is to listen to your body. If the times you want to cheat are in the late afternoon and early evening, do that. If it's in the morning or on a Sunday afternoon, choose that time. There's so much about food that is attached to emotion and memory, that it's hard to detach oneself from eating history. However, strategic eating is important to the competitive bodybuilder. My personal choice, in that case, would be either at breakfast, or just ...

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