Drinking on the weekends

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  • ChelseaM8726
    ChelseaM8726 Posts: 117
    Vodka with soda water and lime/lemon wedges. Or my personal favorite, straight liquor, and if you need a chaser drink water. Oh, I also like to drink an emergen-c packet to avoid hangovers.

    Great tips! Thanks! :)
  • alibabs65
    alibabs65 Posts: 10
    I was having trouble overeating on the weekends as well so I tried the 5:2 diet when you stick to 500 calories on 2 days of the week and the rest of the time you eat normally. I do the 500 calorie days on a Monday to recover from the weekend and then on a Thursday to prepare for the next weekend. I am finding it great!
  • ChelseaM8726
    ChelseaM8726 Posts: 117
    http://getdrunknotfat.com/

    Your welcome :)

    Finally, a useful source.

    I JUST read about this website on a Yahoo article the other day!
  • RozayJones
    RozayJones Posts: 409 Member
    It is not a problem to overcome but rather adapting your diet to your lifestyle. I save up my exercise calories to drink and eat on the weekend. Just log everything and make knowledgeable decisions.
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    I like that idea!!!

    I am the same way - it keeps me sane or maybe it's the polish/hispanic in me jk

    I add it in to my diary and still watch my count - I have to make sure not to eat all that horrible drunk food such as taco bell but guilt has won that battle!
  • annakow
    annakow Posts: 385 Member
    I drink red wine on weekends. I try to be healthy and eat less carbs. But I didn't drink first 7 months of my diet, just recently.
  • The_Enginerd
    The_Enginerd Posts: 3,982 Member
    Alcohol is pretty high in calories, but I stay away from sweet wines or mixers as those add a bunch of sugar calories as well. Shots and dry wines have pretty much all of their calories form the alcohol, or you do mixers, use diet soda as previously suggested.

    If you know you are going to party on the weekend, doing a weekly average (the mobile app makes this easy) and banking some extra calories for higher days on the weekends is a reasonable strategy IMHO as long as you don't go overboard. E.G. leaving 100 calories a day during the week so you'll have 500 extra calories to play with on the weekend and eating nutritiously the rest of the time so you are getting good amounts of protein and nutrients.
  • SezxyStef
    SezxyStef Posts: 15,267 Member
    Long island ice tea made with real lemon juice instead of bar mix is good.
    fruit flavored vodka with soda water is good
    if no fruit flavored vodka try it with a squirt of that crystal lite stuff or whatever is on hand
    Always the lite beer of course
    Tequilla maybe...hehe

    Wine for me is a killer too I just make spritzers to cut down the calories as I like chardonney etc.
  • RockinTerri
    RockinTerri Posts: 499 Member
    OP: you could make it a rule that if you want to go out drinking on a Saturday night you have to do a big workout earlier in the day to mitigate the effects in advance.

    Other than that, stick to the lower calorie options and limit the drunk/hung over foods.

    I plan on doing both of these this weekend - well Friday and Saturday that is! Great tips!
  • USMCnetty90
    USMCnetty90 Posts: 277 Member
    http://getdrunknotfat.com/

    Your welcome :)

    Finally, a useful source.


    agreed - Thank you!!!!


    I look forward to Bloody Mary Sunday!!! I make the best - usually I just drink vodka and flavored water (yum) and I am a fan of the sweet wines... I dont think there is a problem with indulging on the weekend.
  • shivles
    shivles Posts: 468 Member
    I can't give up drinking as well as eating well, it's kinds of my reward for behaving myself! I stick to vodka and slimline tonic to keep the calories down and make sure I have healthy foods ready to eat for when I get in so I don't get a takeaway on the way home!
  • chatnel
    chatnel Posts: 688 Member
    Thank you all. Shall be putting all your great advice to use starting tonight.

    Is it 5 oclock yet?
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  • linsey0689
    linsey0689 Posts: 753 Member
    I normally go with sprite zero and flavored vodka and it's really tasty and low calories. Also just limit yourself. Sometimes I see people getting the 50 wing bucket because it's just as cheap but for 3 or 4 people that's a crap ton of wings. So just think cheaper doesn't always equal better. Or just dont eat your full amount. This is just one example you might not even be a wing person. But also what I do is kind of let me friends know what I am doing so they don't try to tempt me with sharing a dessert or something like that. Also maybe try to just drink every other weekend?

    I don't know kind of just thinking and typing at the same time so hopefully it a least somewhat helped.

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