I have been doing this now for 5 1/2 weeks and I cannot say I have never cheated. It has not been alot but I have had a few slip ups. My weight loss has pretty much stayed the same for the last 2 weeks and I am very frustrated going on 3 weeks and the scales have not moved. I am thinking that maybe those very small cheats have really hurt me. Even though my cheats did not amount to a whole anything. It was just a couple of bites. Mostly things like my sons ice cream was melting all over the place at the zoo yesterday and of course being a mom I cleaned it up for him and in the process probably hurt my weight loss.