Need help on how not to sabotage myself over weekends

beckyplummer

I do pretty good during the week while at work drinking my water and log in what I am eating but once Friday night hits my disapline becomes lacking. I don't work out as much as I know I should, I eat all the wrong things and don't log them into my journal and I bascially gain back + everything that I had worked so hard to get off during the week. I thought I had finally cracked the plateau that I was on by getting below the lowest weight that I had been in a atleast 3 weeks but then I had a weekend and now I am 3 pounds over that weight that I was so proud at getting down to.

I am trying to look at today as a fresh start but I sometimes just feel like getting off this rollercoaster of Elation(low weight) to depression (getting the weight back over the weekend) ... I just don't know how to get off the Rollercoaster and stay in the Elation mode not the depression mode and gain back all the weight I lost.

Any help or words of encouragement would be great..

Saree1902

I have the same problem! I'll be really disciplined during the week, at work then I'll come home Friday night and out comes the cheesecake...!! :embarassed:

The main way I compensate is by exercise...in my case running, as I'm usually in training for something but also housework and gardening (weather permitting) can burn off a lot.

I also log EVERYTHING....even if it makes me cringe! I also find it helps pressing that 'complete entry button' at the end of the day, as that gives you a predicted weight loss depending on your net calories for the day. After I found one Saturday that if I ate like that every day, I'd put on 3kg (nearly 7lb) in 5 weeks, I made sure I did loads of exercise and reined in the treats the next day!

Finally, I focus on specific treats I want. E.g., if I know I'm off for an afternoon tea and cake with the girls, then it'll be fruit and salad before I go, so I enjoy the treats minus any guilt.

lauraatkinson85

Im exactly the same - Im in cotrol all week, hitting the gym and eating healthily, and then its the weekend. I turn from the virtuous dieter to to the wine fuelled binge eater! if you want to try to motivate each other, feel free to add me. I think that the most important thing I do is logging all of my weekend mistakes so that I'm taking responsibility for them. x

Dauntlessness

I do that too.

The thing is, there are no magic answers. No one can visit you on the weekends and make the choices for you.

Just do it. Log it. Exercise more.

I have a home cooked breakfast of the weekends which are usually pretty high cal. A friend told me to have brunch instead. It seems like a good idea.

pinuplove

I made my weigh in day Monday