JJ767 same here!  I always manage to weight less on Fridays and then every Monday back to old weight.  I love food and also Saturdays are my "cleaning" days so I stay mostly home until the evening and that makes me eat-little here, little there, I end up with lots of calories.  I work out only during the week.  My jym is way too far from my house (about 2 hrs) so I don't exersice on Weekends, but I do go shopping and for walks etc. but definetely is not the same because a walk with the hubby usually means ending up with coffee and cake or ice cream etc...  So today Monday, I'm back on CC logging and being carefull what will eat or not.  Funny eh?

Well, I didn't do so hot this weekend. Saturday wasn't so bad...I did so much housework and painting that I couldn't get in too much trouble. Now Sunday as predicted, was a killer. Not only did I have the picnic & ice cream social, my brother came up from NC and a last minute extended family picnic was thrown into the mix as well. Even without 'pigging out' I ended up over stuffed. Oh well, I have five days to behave and get psyched up for next weekend!

Note: the last I heard from Caro was at the beginning of June. She said she was fine, just taking a break to try and get some things straight in her life. Guess she just has too much to think about to worry about cals etc, right now. I can understand that -- been there myself for a few days here and there.

Yeah, I miss her too!  She's just a really fun sweetheart!

What to do to help keep me in line...?...can anyone figure out a way to reach through their modem and slap me now & then??

Seriously though, I thought last weekends challenges were great but I sort of lost track of them. Maybe I need to print them and put them on my fridge or something. ?  I get very little computer time on weekends so it seems sort of out of sight, out of mind. How do you all keep these things in the front of your mind with all the other weekend 'noise'?

Hi guys,

I know you've been doing this for a bit already but I'd like to join you 2. My biggest issues over the weekend are not drinking enough water and drinking alcohol. I end up drinking on Friday nights and not feeling like working out on Saturday because of the night before and then the whole weekend is a wash.

Especially this weekend, I'm having friends from out of town over so I know we'll go out Satruday night. I need to make sure I exercise all week and especially saturday morning.

So, how does this work? Do we make sure to post our updates during the weekend?

Here are my goals for the weekend:

1. Log ALL of my calories WHEN I eat them, not 2 days after.

2. Consume no more than 1350 calories Saturday (still making up for last Sunday's glutton-fest). This is going to be the hardest part of the weekend, especially since I'm taking a break from working out since I will have worked out M-F.

3. Consume no more than my regular 1600-1800 calories Sunday.

4. 80 minutes of exercise Sunday.

5. Vacuum my gross apartment. Haha.

I MUST DO IT!!! If I can get through this weekend without shoveling food into my face, it will be the first out of 4 weekends that I've been able to have some self-control. If I can remain disciplined through this weekend, I have a feeling I'll be unstoppable.

Olivia, good luck with your goals! I'll check in on Monday, hopefully not with my head hung low with shame.

Hi weekend warriors! This shouldn't be such a ridiculously glutinous (why are there three spellings for that word??) weekend. I'll be thinking about Olivia as I too will be stuck in a car today for about 9 hours today. That's always challenging for me. Why do I get sooo hungry when I'm not doing anything but sitting there??? I have housework to catch up on this morning (and by 'housework' I mean stripping wallpaper and plastering plus laundry etc.) I figure that's GOT to count for something exercise wise.  Tomorrow? I'll just try and be smart, thoughtful about what I eat, and get some darned exercise!

Just wanted to mention that I changed my goal for today (Saturday) to consume no more than my regular 1600-1800 calories, which is what I normally consume to create a reasonable deficit combined with my deficit from calories burned at the gym. I didn't change it because I thought I couldn't do it, because I was determined!! I changed it because I weighed myself for my regular Friday weigh-in and found that I had nicely recovered from last weekend and lost another 2 pounds. Yay! So I decided it was safe to return to my regular calorie allowance, rather than the 1000-1300 a day I was forcing myself to stick to after my 5000 calorie binge last Sunday.

It'll still be a challenge though, since I usually manage to surpass 3000 calories a day on the weekends. Yikes! I hope everyone is doing well.

Oh, I sucked as usual! Things didn't go too badly in the car - I took carrot sticks along and realized that the short but fat pretzel sticks we took were about 35 calories a piece so I didn't go ga ga on them. We stopped to buy some other kind of bar and I got some cranberry granola things that weren't too bad. My DH got fun-size Snickers. (Interestingly two of the little Snickers weighed just slightly less than my bar, had about the same amount of calories and the same amount of protein. I just knew I wouldn't stop at two of them!) Then we stopped at an American Steak Buffet on the way back -for the benefit of the bottomless pit stepson- and I didn't do as well as I should have. Eating wasn't bad yesterday but I basically got NO deliberate exercise either day. I think I had a couple of glasses of water at restaurants. sigh. I don't think I did any damage but if I'm ever going to get anywhere I've got to make PROGRESS on the weekends too!

I'm having the SAME problem.  All the work I do during the week is completely blown on the weekends.  I even went for a run this Saturday which I thought was a step in the right direction but then that night I ate like a crazy person!  Any good healthy "unhealthy" foods I can get when hanging out with friends?

I'll definitely be checking back and stickin' to it, I need to get my weekends back on track!!!

I did it!! That was such a huge accomplishment for me! I consumer 1600/day calories on Saturday and Sunday, worked out for 70 minutes on Sunday (I couldn't champion those last 10 minutes, but I feel 70 is good enough), and I even vacuumed. Woo hoo!!

Olivia, I'm glad to hear you did well.

Chris, I feel for you. I may have done it this weekend, but there are many more future weekends for me to mess up.   Hopefully you won't be stuck in a car next weekend, and maybe it'll be easier.

Next weekend is going to be tough for me. 4th of July will be easy, since I'm vegan and can't really pig out on BBQ food. Sunday though, I'm going to my favorite vegan cafe for their brunch buffet since I haven't been in a long time... And they have an all-you-can-eat dessert table... Uh oh!

Sorry I missed you all last weekend.  I've been working doubles like its my job (well it is i guess)  So in the midst of me trying to find time to eat, I've been running around the bar like a mad woman!  Hopefully this will all result in really sexy legs! haha   I'm headin to the beach in a few days so I will miss the next two weekends because my vacation is a vacation away from my computer that I am obsessed with too!  but... I WILL BE BACK

OMG I need this like I need oxygen. I probably would've lost twice the weight I've lost if I could just stick to it on the weekends! Why am I just now seeing this thread? I know...it's been bumped bc so many ppl are freaked about the 4th weekend. I know I am!! I've already committed to 4 separate social occasion that will all involve alcohol...jeez...someone, anyone who wants to give/needs support, msg me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!