Dreading the Weekend

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  • renatewolfe
    renatewolfe Posts: 91 Member
    There are times when I have to eat out too, but I plan for it. I look up the menu on line and check the nutrition info for calories. If we are eating at McD's, I get the grilled chicken sandwich without mayo because it is still tasty. I add a side salad with Paul Newman's Own Light Italian Dressing, (God Rest Your Soul, Paul Newman, and thanks for giving us healthy, tasty choices while helping the sick!). If I'm feeling particularly wicked, I will have a cone.

    Tonight, I am meeting my kids at Olive Garden. Luckily, I think that OG has the blandest, most boring, Italian food ever cooked, but since my kids love it, I am going. I am skipping the bread sticks and salad, which is mostly lettuce and not worth the calories in the dressing, and having the Chicken Lasagna Primavera, decaf coffee with cream, water with lemon and 4 Andie's Mint Patties. The breadsticks will be the only real temptation, but I'm happy to forgo them for the chocolate. I've eaten at O'Charlie's and McAllister's as well and still stuck to my program.

    I am German too, and love the bread and meats, but will skip them most of the time unless I plan a cheat day. I can have a few good German cookies, a chocolate or a piece of yummy cake or pastry from my German bakery if I plan for it, and still stay within my calorie range.

    Our German has wonderful rye bread that I have sliced thin for sandwiches and toast. Yummy!
  • juliewatkin
    juliewatkin Posts: 764 Member
    Maybe this is an opportunity to change your family's pattern. This is going to sound harsher than I mean it to because I do understand you're busy and kids love McDonald's, but going every week isn't the best habit to teach them. Maybe instead you could all cook something healthy together or go for a walk and have a picnic if it's not too cold.

    Otherwise, just try to exercise and make good choices for yourself. You don't have to be perfect--just better than usual should create more of a deficit than you've had. Small changes really do add up. Maybe have fruit for breakfast and save some extra calories for later in the day?

    I agree with this advice. I assume you are the mother of the family. I'm your age and a mother as well with a lot going on and two teenage girls. I make all the household food decisions though. We don't eat out much. I keep the house well stocked with a lot of food of different varieties. If they can't find what they like, they are free to walk to the grocery store at the end of the street (fwiw, they've done this).

    I sound a bit draconian but I'm mostly cheap and won't swing for eating out on a regular basis. We've always been this way.
  • perfect_storm
    perfect_storm Posts: 326 Member
    I am an all or nothing personality. Weekends used to be difficult but I found if I logged everything and saw bad numbers it would pi** me off and make me want to eat good.
  • laineybz
    laineybz Posts: 704 Member
    Every other weekend i work 12 hour days Sat and Sun. I plan and prepare my food for the whole day and am generally fine. Touch wood! lol.
  • nxd10
    nxd10 Posts: 4,570 Member
    If I'm going to be out at lunch time I plan a healthy lunch to stop at or I bring a roll-up for the car.

    I don't have trouble with weekends. I just have to pace myself.
  • chani8
    chani8 Posts: 946 Member
    What's that saying? "Man plans and G-d laughs!" I do plan ahead, I even pre-log, but I plan as a-woman-with-self-control, and then the wine and bread come out, and are just irresistible, and my plan goes to hell. ;)
  • baker150
    baker150 Posts: 112 Member
    I find it's the exact opposite for me! Friday-Sunday I am super active, and eat right around my calorie intake. But from Mon-Thurs at work, I fail. I work in a bakery in the basement though, so no one can see me snack on everything I make :( lol.

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