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Weekends

I eat good throw weekdays, obe can I have a day to enjoy with family during the weekends, is it a good idea to enjoy a day of Saturday and Sunday get back on track the week. Or choose one weekend to enjoy

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  • snowflake954
    snowflake954 Posts: 8,399 Member
    Agree with Ann, eating what you want and not logging on the weekends is not a good plan. You can still enjoy time with family without overdoing. Be careful.
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,491 Member
    ^^What they said.

    Log your food, all of it. Especially those weekend days. Look at your calories as a weekly budget. For instance, my weekly budget is 14,000 calories. If I eat (for instance) 8,500 for the week of Monday through Friday, that leaves me 5,500 calories to use on Saturday and Sunday. That's not a whole lot, really.

    I could easily go over my calories if I didn't log them. Just an extra bit of food on each day would push me over and then I wouldn't lose weight.

    Log food. All of it. I learned a lot from my FOOD diary. It's the only thing that has ever worked.
  • flower3326
    flower3326 Posts: 35 Member
    Thanks okay I see
  • tomcustombuilder
    tomcustombuilder Posts: 2,361 Member
    Sat or Sunday it doesn’t matter just be aware that a small deficit during the week and a big weekend day can wipe out the weekly deficit or even turn into a weekly calorie surplus.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    What is your definition of eating good? What would Saturday and Sunday look like if you took off from eating "good". I pretty much follow a 90/10 rule everyday...but I also have a pretty broad perspective of what good nutrition is.