I’m with ya on how in the beginning it’s a lot of work but you just get into a routine, learn to cook, and then it’s no big deal – so true!

Re: the “cheat days”, I don’t recommend that. Why? Because 99% of the time that involves eating processed food full of refined sugar and other gunk. So, that means that you’ve been clean, off of that stuff and eating only whole foods and when you introduce it back into your system now you’ve gotta start the detox all over again.

I don’t see any need to boost your metabolism anyway, unless you’re already doing everything right and haven’t lost weight or inches for a week. If that’s the case all you need to do is increase your protein and whole carbs proportionately for a few days and that will help your system kick start. After that go back to eating your normal portions.

Your metabolism also burns high from eating those smaller portions of whole foods every 2.5 to 3 hours, this is how I eat per the 6-week body makeover.

Ok, so on your question re: fat cells – it doesn’t matter about their size, you either gain fat or not. I’m not a doctor but from what I’ve learned they don’t change size per se but they “lose their fat” when you lose fat through weight loss. They never go away.

Let me know if you have any other questions about that – as you can see I’m more concerned about how those “cheat days” will affect your system and cycle of cravings and/or food addiction than I am with your fat cells.