Weekend Binges

david_swinstead

I have had a problem recently with weekend binges.

I could give you a list of excuses such as a bank holiday weekend, an easter full of chocolate, and my girlfiend's birthday celebrations, but at the end of the day excuses are worthless, and I know that.

As of this morning I weighed in at 219lbs, which is my lowest since starting to lose back in January. That sounds like a good thing, and it is, except that I weighed the exact same this time last week. By Tuesday morning I had gained a few lbs from a weekend of excess upon more excess.

It was the exact same story the week before. And the week before that.

It's a self-induced plateau.

I'm stuck in a cycle where I do everything right from Monday to Friday, but then go out for a piss up on Saturday night, and usually spend Sunday recovering from the hangover with comfort food, and lots of it.

My healthy weeks are achieving nothing more than compensating for my weekends of alcohol and junk food.

I'm not in this to deprive myself of anything. As you could see if you looked at my diary, I very much live by IIFYM - If It Fits Your Macros! - and I will eat anything I want to as long as I stay roughly where I want to be on calories, and make sure I get plenty of protein on lifting days. So I know that the answer to my problem isn't declaring a blanket ban on alcohol or junk food, because that wouldn't be maintainable. Instead, I just need to get a grip on how much I allow myself to indulge, rather than letting completely lose at the weekends.

So that's my plan going forward, but for this weekend my goals are more specific. Just for now, to get myself back in the game:
I WILL NOT DRINK ALCOHOL THIS WEEKEND
I WILL NOT HAVE A TAKEAWAY JUNK FOOD NIGHT THIS WEEKEND


Easy.

I'm not posting this because I need motivation or support (arguably it's probably not in the right forum), I'm just posting it for myself.

I know what I need to do, and nothing cements goals more than writing them down. By writing down a target you give it life that it didn't have when it was just an idea floating around in your head. So now this thread serves as a record of somethign that I have solidly decided to do.

I got this!

Livingbalanced

You're right, you DO have this!

tabi26

Your story is my story lately too lol. Usually good mon-fri (not this week though lol) then comes Friday night and it's off to get plastered! The next day I lay around and eat crap all the while feeling sorry for myself . It's been a month now at practically the same weight (actually up a few pounds right now). I have a ton of "excuses" as well. Actually, really only one i use all the time, which is that my hubby is gone from home pretty much all year long except for the months of April and May ( his job requires that he be gone for ridiculously extended periods of time). So when he's home, we live it up!

Last year when he got home I gained 11 pounds in five weeks lol. I quit watching what I ate and quit working out as well.

So far, this time, he's been home for about a month and I've managed to maintain. So I guess that's an achievement in it's own. So I've changed my personal goals for now to just maintain my loss before he got here, and will start trying to lose again when he leaves in June lol.

I just can't bring myself to give up our weekends of fun to lose weight. It sucks, but having fun with him while I can is what matters to me right now .

soehlerking

Great way of looking at it--you are in control, not the food.