What’s the difference whether you make it a cheat or a choice?

The difference is how the decision to treat yourself will make you feel. Making it a choice gives you the upper hand and tells you that you’re still in charge. You wanted to eat something high-calorie or unhealthy, so you did. Saying it’s a choice gives you the food awareness you need to have a healthy relationship with food. Saying it’s a cheat, on the other hand, will give you feelings of failure. Really, just the negative tone of the word is enough to make you feel bad about yourself. But if you say that eating something you normally would decide against was a choice you willingly made, you won’t have to “get back on track” because you were never off track in the first place.