Weekends are my downfall. How do you survive?

chrissjourney

Awesome advice, thanks!

wanzik

Do! There is no try!

I do my official weigh-in/body comp every Saturday morning. I think that helps keep me on track over the weekend - keeps me mindful of my goals.

Raptor2763

I very rarely drink, in part because alcohol is little more than pure sugar. It will undo your weight loss program like nothing else.

Two other things I do on weekends:
1. make sure my activity level is at or above what I do during the week (no sleeping in on Sundays, for example) and
2. cook at home vs. going out. Restaurants love to pile spices on top of food, and that's almost a sure-fire way to increase your salt level, causing fluid retention and weight gain. If I do go out, I make very clear to the wait staff to not put ANY seasoning on my food. Black pepper is all I need.

bigfatguy13088

Yep weekends, particularly when alcohol is involved, hurt alot of peoples efforts on this board.
I would recommend drinking 1 light beer when out, really nursing it all night if possible. Everyone else will be tipsy so they wont notice. Plus you'll be fine to drive yourself home!

divcara

I sign up for early morning classes on the weekend. Whenever I am tempted to drink the night before, I think of how much better I am going to feel in class on Saturday morning if I went to bed early and don't have alcohol in me. I've actually come to appreciate getting up on the weekend, getting my day started and my workout all done early.

While I do have an occasional drink here and there, the more I have cut alcohol out, the less I actually want it these days. Also, when I think of how much work I put into my workouts for the week, I look at it as an investment of my time, effort, and money, and then I stay pretty motivated to protect my investments at all cost.

That said, I do have a social life and I don't just stay in on the weekends so I can get up early to work out. But it does cause me to really put thought into what I *really* want to do - how I want to spend my time, money, car gas, calories, etc. If it's just kind of eh, I pass. If it's something I really want to do or someone I want to see, maybe I'll have the beer. But stick with one, etc.

peleroja

BrokeBirkin wrote: »

I'm not a social person so this is just a theory. I hear people talk all the time about going out with friends and family and not wanting to be "that one" in the group who orders a salad for dinner or water at the bar. If I had this problem I would try to make friends who are also trying to be healthy and have at least 1 in the group. I feel like if there are at least a couple people in the group doing it it takes the social pressure off. When I was vegetarian I went to like a picnic event at college and there was homemade food that looked great but I couldn't tell what was in it. I was so scared to be the girl asking what everything is and then someone went "ok, which ones are meat free for all the vegetarians?". I wasn't singled out I was still part of a group and I no longer feared it.

This is kind of where I sit on this too...maybe my friends are just given to fads or something, but I feel like at any given time, there are at least a couple people not drinking for whatever reason, a couple people dieting/cutting, at least one person on the vegetarian-to-vegan spectrum, someone trying Paleo or LCHF or whatever, etc etc etc.

All I've ever had to say is "Oh, I'm not drinking for a few weeks until my race," or "Single vodka water, I need the sorority-girl special after all that cake last week," or whatever. In my experience, other people really don't care about what you're drinking or eating if you don't make a big deal of it.