Weekend was a bust! :-(

kschwab0203

After all my hard work all week, I blew it in one weekend!!! WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME!!!

I drank Friday and Saturday night. I tracked my food Friday (except the booze), didn't track on Saturday (I binged and did't want to see how bad it was), but tracked on Sunday (managed to go over by like 700 calories...ahh!)

The weekends are so difficult for me! Friday we went to a football game and Saturday to local festival. I'm not the type to stay home all weekend and meal plan, but obviously I have no clue how to conduct myself in public, lol!

How do you all make it all weekend without indulging? Any tips or advice?

Treece68

Nothing it happens just move on!

Ming1951

We all have those times, put it behind you and move on.

emcchipman

In my opinion those days have to happen or you would also burn out. Get unmotivated. It's just not letting it turn into a bad week, then a bad month, then a bad 6 months... and next you're gone.

akf2000

same here, did really well until Sunday then *BOOM!* - got on the scales today and +4lb! FOUR POUNDS - you have to laugh really. It'll come off in the week. Don't get too hung up by it! In my case it's like a trigger mechanism, once I go even slightly astray it opens the floodgates, something I have to work on. Did better than last week when I triggered it on Friday night, so.. progress!!

smc0170

I was up two and a half pounds this morning from Friday. So you know what I'm going to do? Get back in the gym, eat right and work at it all week.

It's all about the long term goal, not a short term weekend. Keep your eyes on the prize and keep fighting.

SophNewts

You need treat days / meals to stay on track – even though it’s painful, you should still record your indulgences. You will cringe but perhaps it’s not as bad as you thought – does it even out over the week anyway? i.e. if you’re targeting 1,400 calories per day (as an example), this would be 9,800 over an entire week. I aim for 1,350 per day but I’ll have days where I’m less hungry and eat less and others where I’m really craving and I’ll go over but I try to just make sure it evens out over the week or at least make an effort to do a bit more exercise if I’ve gone over. This approach tends to work. Also it’s a fairly controversial and disputed theory but you should read into alcohol calories – lots more studies coming out which prove that they are not equal to calories in food. Without wishing to bore you, in short the calorie system is calculated by burning food to determine how much energy it has. Burn alcohol and it burns significantly – why? Because it’s flammable. This does not mean that the calories within the alcohol equal energy; in fact the body does not process these calories in the same way. Over a 10 year study, those who regularly drank (red wine in particular) were LESS likely to be overweight than those who drank less or not at all. Red wine can aid weight loss when not drunk to excessive levels. I do not include alcohol calories in my food diary and I’ve maintained 7st 12lbs – 8st 4lbs for the last 3 years (I’m 5’’3). The exception to this is beer because it’s made with wheat and this converts to sugar and will cause weight gain.

kaylajane11

Pretty much what everyone else has been saying. Nothing you can do about it now; just move on and try to do better in the future.

I also tend to overindulge a bit on weekends, so what I do is try to create a "cushion" of calories throughout the week. Leave a couple hundred calories leftover each week day, and then you can eat at or a little above maintenance on weekends while still staying within your weekly calorie goal.

rwhansen74

I did very well on the weekdays and then I had an old friend in town for the weekend and we ate a ton of trash for 3 days. Just have to keep moving forward! Don't let mistakes steer you off course.

akf2000

I find trendweight.com very forgiving in these circumstances - it plots your weight trend, as well as actuals, and smooths out these weekend blow-outs. The important thing is to get back on the horse.

cross2bear

You have to have a plan - you have to create the plan ahead of time - you can anticipate when you are going to participate in certain events, and you have to have a strategy in place to deal with them. Maybe it is save calories during the week. Maybe it is bring your own snacks, or instead of eating out all weekend, eat a couple of meals at home, but make it really special, with new recipes, the good china and some candles! It is something that we all struggle with, but at least if you have a plan, you can mitigate any damage that you think you may have done by overeating for the weekend. Weekends come every week, they are not a surprise (same thing for Xmas!) so walk yourself through the activities or even the what if activities and get prepared. Otherwise, you just give up control of your eating to outside influences instead of maintaining it for yourself.

jennifer_417

There a couple of different strategies.
One, you can save up calories throughout the week, eating under your goal by maybe a 100-200 calories, so that your calories even out over the course of the week.
Two, plan out your weekend. Plan what you're going to eat/drink/burn in advance so that you can meet your goals.

Note: If you find yourself consistently bingeing, then you might want to consider that your calorie deficit is a bit too steep. Consider revising your goals a bit to make your overall plan more sustainable.

texasleahgirl

I log everything no matter what, and log alcohol separately in it's own category. I couldn't learn how to lessen or mitigate cravings until I saw the whole ugly thing in right there on the screen in numbers. Once I started logging even the worst days calorie-wise, I was able to make some small changes that really helped. What ended up working for me was to figure my total calories i wanted to eat for the entire week and eating 300 calories less Monday - Thursday so I could have those extra 1200 calories divided between Friday - Saturday - Sunday. This gives me a small amount of extra freedom to have social dinners during the weekend so I don't feel too deprived.

romancefan1983

I had a bad weekend of eating as well but today is a new day. If I let it get to me then I'll enter that well known circle of eating too much because I'm depressed about eating too much.

Remember it's a journey. Yes, you do need to figure out what your triggers are so these bad weekends occur less and less but don't beat yourself up over it.

nowine4me

I stayed home and didn't drink, bit still managed 4500 calories (Lara bars, peanut butter, dark chocolate, Halo Top, etc). At least you have some fun to show for it!! It's a new week........

courtneyfabulous

Next time LOG IT ALL!

Seeing how much calories is in your drinks will help you make the choice to only have 1 or 2 drinks instead of 5. Also did you know alcohol is fattening beyond just the calories it contains? It also SLOWS YOUR METABOLISM for up to 3 days after consuming, so that binge & going over had even more of a negative effect than it would have without drinking.

Sorry for the harsh reality but sometimes we need a wake up call.

It might be best to just not drink at all for now until you've reached your goal weight, or at least give yourself a drink limit.

You should log binges too- AND AS YOURE BINGEING, NOT AFTER. You need to see all the calories. It helps to make the choice to only have 5 oreos and not the entire package.

You might need to check if your calorie goal is too low or if you're being too strict throughout the week too- if you never let yourself have a treat or if you're hungry all the time it's going to be almost impossible to turn down temptation on the weekends and you're going to go overboard and ruin all your progress from the week.

courtneyfabulous

Also watch this video- and maybe even actually do this video... it's a workout video that shows exactly how much exercise it takes to burn off the calories from ONE OREO. I find this helps me when I want to eat something with empty calories or I'm tempted to go over my daily calories:

https://youtu.be/mVfSG3lV8Mk

rsclause

I have been losing the same five pounds every week for the past six months. I don't log anymore but to the OP if you are going to log, than log the good and the bad. The information gained helps you understand what effect it has and how long it takes to recover.