My problem is not the crap food - it's the crap liquids that are so bad for me!!!

For some reason it seems like on the weekends when I'm home, my cat follows me around and gives me the eyebrow raise when I head for the fridge...

Sometimes when I feel like I'm going to have a rough week I will zig zag my calories like this...

Monday - 1100
Tuesday - 1100
Wednesday - 1200
Thursday - 1000
Friday - 1500
Saturday - 1600
Sunday-1500

I will be a little under in my calories during the week, but that will allow for quite a bit of extra room on the weekends, when it is harder to resist urges.  But I still stay within my weekly calorie range, rather than looking at it as a daily range!

yeah I know I need to let mysef have the moderation but It seems to me that I always over do it on the weekends pizza wine aye aye aye.. I will just have to learn to hit the gym really hard on mondays!

What is everyone's give in- food/drink on the weekends and how can we all keep ourselves in "check" on those lovely no work weekends?

Original Post by gennysaurus:

For some reason it seems like on the weekends when I'm home, my cat follows me around and gives me the eyebrow raise when I head for the fridge...

Sometimes when I feel like I'm going to have a rough week I will zig zag my calories like this...

Monday - 1100
Tuesday - 1100
Wednesday - 1200
Thursday - 1000
Friday - 1500
Saturday - 1600
Sunday-1500

I will be a little under in my calories during the week, but that will allow for quite a bit of extra room on the weekends, when it is harder to resist urges.  But I still stay within my weekly calorie range, rather than looking at it as a daily range!

 ~I feel like I gain ten pounds over the weeked... For an example I eat 1200 calories during the week and then I guess on the weekedn I don't eat the veggies and fruits i do during the work week and thats my problem..Can eating over the weekend (crap of course) really put 5 pounds on you..

I have been stuck at 170 because i start to loose mon-fri and then am back to 170 by monday! Stressful!!

No.. eating crap over the weekend could not put 5 lbs of fat on you. Water retention? Yes.

Lets say your bmr is 1600 cals a day. Over the weekend ALL you do is lay in bed and eat. That's Saturday, you burn 1600 cals, and Sunday, you burn 1600 cals. So you burn a total of 3200 calories over the weekend. In order to gain a pound of fat, you must eat 3500 calories above and beyond what you burn. So in other words, to gain 5 pounds you would need to consume 17500 calories more than you burn.  In order to do this over a weekend, you would need to eat the 3200 calories that you are burning plus the 17500 calories that you would need to add on to gain 5 pounds of fat.

That is a total of 20,700 calories that you would have to eat in two days, while only laying in bed all day, in order to gain 5 pounds of fat. So unless you are eating more than 10,000 calories a day on the weekend, then I think it is safe to say that the increase you see on the scale is excess water weight from higher sodium foods, as well as the weight of the food still possibly in your system from your wild weekend.

Hope that makes you feel better!

WoW! Thank you soooo much for doing all that math lol! I do feel soo much better it must be water weight because I'm starting to feel less bloated than i did this morning.. haha! That was so great.. thanks for the help!

I usually do pretty bad during the weekends, mainly due to liquid calories..aka: booze. But as of lately I try to not go off the deep end at least. I think giving yourself a little bit room to "mess up" is good. I think its terrible when people completely cut off eating certain things (ie: ice cream, chocolate, bread etc). I think i would last a week and then give up.lol

I'm definitely sailing along in the same boat as you!  I believe during the week I'm fine because I'm at work....I have way too much time on the weekends which means way too much time to think about what I'm going on to it, and usually I'm out shopping and there's no good, healthy places to eat when you're out and about

I blew it this past weekend, but I'm going to try to do better this weekend coming up!

Hope to hear about how your weekend comes along!

Tasha

Doesn't anyone intentionally take days off???

I have been on this lifestyle for a little over a year, I have lost 60 pounds, and I ALWAYS take friday and saturday off.  

1500 calories sun-thurs
2000 calories fri
NO HOLDS BARRED on saturday

Yes, I typically pack on some water weight, and it takes until monday or tuesday to dissapear, but hey-60 pounds doesn't lie!

Consider giving yourself a day off intentionally-it will keep your metabolism from getting used to lower levels of food, and when that cookie is talking to you on tuesday, you can just tell it it has to wait until friday. (with any luck you will have forgotten about it by then anyhow.)

Always! But I allow myself if, and darnit, I enjoy it! think of it as metabolism boosting... please dont let it get you down! :o)

(I also changed my weigh in day to a Friday...so ive got the week to work it all off!!)

I agree with katsmeow79, I tell the cookies they can wait, and they taste all the better for it!

I'm from the country so my weekend favs are biscuits/gravy and vodka. (Not at the same time)

I definitely did that this weekend. I find it's harder to stick to eating healthy when I'm with my husband all the time, and we're out with friends. This weekend we had a lot of social commitments, which made it tough. But I tried. At a barbecue yesterday I took a big container of veggies and another one of fruit, and stuck to one small veggie hot dog on a whole wheat bun, and lots of the fruits and veggies. No chips, no potato salad, no candy, etc. And then we went for a walk when we wanted to start snacking. :)  But the rest of the weekend wasn't so successful, and I also took two days off from the gym.

I'm just going to chalk it up to a few days of "maintenance" to remind my body what I'm working for, and get back on track today.

My biggest problem is that a few days of eating unconsciously makes me so darn hungry when I go back to counting!!!!

Original Post by moody-love:

I'm definitely sailing along in the same boat as you!  I believe during the week I'm fine because I'm at work....I have way too much time on the weekends which means way too much time to think about what I'm going on to it, and usually I'm out shopping and there's no good, healthy places to eat when you're out and about

I blew it this past weekend, but I'm going to try to do better this weekend coming up!

Hope to hear about how your weekend comes along!

Tasha

 

 

 Yeah during the week i work 8-5 so i'm fine .. i pack my lunch and eat 1250 calories. No problem but then the week ends and i'm screwed!!

Oh my memorial day weekend!! This ought to be a health fest.. NOT! I'm having a party any food suggestions guys?

Original Post by katsmeow79:

Doesn't anyone intentionally take days off???

I have been on this lifestyle for a little over a year, I have lost 60 pounds, and I ALWAYS take friday and saturday off.  

1500 calories sun-thurs
2000 calories fri
NO HOLDS BARRED on saturday

Yes, I typically pack on some water weight, and it takes until monday or tuesday to dissapear, but hey-60 pounds doesn't lie!

Consider giving yourself a day off intentionally-it will keep your metabolism from getting used to lower levels of food, and when that cookie is talking to you on tuesday, you can just tell it it has to wait until friday. (with any luck you will have forgotten about it by then anyhow.)

 This is exactly why I posted this blog... I do give myself days off I eat whatever I want within reason sat and sun... I feel like a beach whale on Monday and I cant be eating that much.. Now please note that on Mond-fri I eat 1250 calories tons of fruits and veggies.. this is a typical weekedn.

breakfast- 2 eggs over easy/ bacon/homefries/dry rye toast <-- that looks bad!

Lunch- Subway sandwich tuna lettuce and spinach on honey oat bread 6inch, coke and lays light chips

Dinner- Whatever i decide.

in between.. iced tea unsweet/ maybe a cookie or three/maybe some dorritos..

BUT: I do not eat like any carbs during the week so as above it looks awful its not daily.

Maybe it is water weight or maybe I should not eat that "crap" sat and sunday

Original Post by bindobi:

I'm from the country so my weekend favs are biscuits/gravy and vodka. (Not at the same time)

 hahahha you and me both!!!

I actually plan on doing that for my diet.  My target intake is about 2350 C for my weight loss goal.  I eat about 2000-2100 C on weekdays and about 3000 C on weekends.  It averages out to the right value and it allows me to stop worrying about calories so much.  I can also go out with people on the weekends and trust that I'll still be under my weekly allotment.  Though, my target intake is a bit higher than yours...it helps to have the extra calories to work with :-\

I have the exact problem. I do so well during the week. Keep almost a 1000 cal deficite, and 1200 cals eating. Walking at work everyday...then the weekend comes, and here comes the resturants and drinks...ugh. I need to say no to them! Or just order a grilled chicken salad....but no...I ordered Ribs! lol. This is my biggest downfall. I lose 3lbs but gain 2 back over the weekend, then have to re-lose the 2lbs...plus try to lose more so I have an overalll lose. Weekends are the devil!

you know they should have somthing that you can wear on your wrist that will starting beeping and hooting and hollaring when you get close to your daily calories.. or it will be on a weekley basis so it can exactly count your intake so if you have like 3000 cal left for a day and a half you'll know.. like a pedimeter but for food... hahaha.. I think i'm obsessed~

and here I thought I was the only one that over ate on the weekends...
I have the exact same issue as all of you. I eat very well during the week and the weekend comes and I don't exercise and I eat terribly! I do allow myself one "bad" day; however, it is always during the week cause my boyfriend LOVES! to eat out. It is SOO hard because we have different eating styles. He eates anything and I try to watch what I eat because loosing this weight means a lot to me.
My other issue is snacking while watchin T.V. at night! Lately I have been good with eating light popcorn, but last night it was a VERY bad craving for chocolate! My dear sweet boyfriend even went out and got me some and it was on then! I ate it all and felt extremely terrible! Today I am "punishing" myself and making myself get back on my normal exercise routine of exercise twice a day. A half hour walk at lunch and a walk at night.