Carianne... they told me that no cheat is up to you. If you consider it a cheat then it is. For me no cheat is if I go over 50 grams of carb in a day, or close to it for all 7 days in a week. I try to stay below 50 each day, and below 30 on a couple days each week.
Good luck, I can tell you the No cheat until Autum helped me a lot.