DOES ANYONE ELSE FALL OFF THE WAGON ON THE WEEKENDS?
TLEIGH33777
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Almost every weekend I fall off the wagon. I'm not sure why. I can't even get to the gym. Seems like if I'm not in my routine of work, then gym I'm not going. I have no children or commitments holding me back, its just my inner lazy fat girl.
The same goes for my eating habits, I eat like crap on the weekends, I think part of it is my husbands influence, but he does not make me put the crap in my mouth.
Any advice for me?
The same goes for my eating habits, I eat like crap on the weekends, I think part of it is my husbands influence, but he does not make me put the crap in my mouth.
Any advice for me?
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I do pretty much the same, I content myself with the knowledge that i am not going over anywhere near as bad as i used to, and that i have been a good girl all week.0
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I do, but I don't fall too far.
I think the weekends I can over indulge, but I never go totally wild with any of the food. It's just more likely that I will have big family parties or go out for breakfast etc. Also booze is more likely to appear!0 -
I'm the same. I'm so focused Monday thru Friday but then the weekend hits and I run a train on everything. I use it as motivation on Monday to hit the gym and give it 110%. Food gives you energy so if you over eat use that energy at the gym.0
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I do and im terrible! im going round and round in circles with this weight loss and often feel like im getting nowhere, need to buck my ideas up!!0
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Yup. I figured that I could either make myself miserable with deprivation and probably balls up my social life by trying to stay on the wagon at the weekends, or find a way to make it work. I opted for calorie cycling. Keep the cals low during the week (helped by a couple of 500 cal day fasts), then I've got the surplus calories to eat the weekend. So far it's working. I still get to go out to restaurants with friends without fretting over the menu for low cal options, have pudding if I want and still manage to lose weight. :happy: :happy:0
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There are times I fall off, get ran over and then it backs up and runs over me again.
I do so much better when I'm at work and busy all the time. Trying to be more active on the weekends, but home life is depressing!
I hit 100 pounds lost, but now I'm fighting with the same 5 pounds by putting it back on and taking it back off for almost 3 weeks now.
Feel free to add me as a friend and maybe we can keep each other on the wagon!0 -
I do somewhat but I try very hard to control it. I surround myself with snacks that are healthy so that I can easily make a better option than what my family is eating.
I log everything. Even if I go over. Sometimes after logging I realize it really wasn't all that bad or at least I can learn what was the worst and avoid that next time.
I try to get out of the house and do something fun. Yesterday dh and I went hiking at the park for a couple of hours.
Weekends are hard but over time I hope to be able to be in as much control on lhe weekends as I am during the week.0 -
I binged all weekend now reaked with guilt
I do great during the week but our weekends are food and drinks. 0 -
I binged all weekend now reaked with guilt I do great during the week but our weekends are food and drinks.
Arrg same... and now I don't even want to do anything today... I gotta get over this hump.0 -
Don't do it!!! OR at least don't do it EVERY weekend....I started to do that....and then it slide over into tthe week...and now I've put back on 9 of the 30lbs that I lost and have basically reverted back to all my old ways and let my healthy lifestyle slide back out.....It is awful and I am making my way back to the new (now old) me again! UGH, SAVE YOURSELF!!! Don't be me--this sucks.0
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I can relate to the weekend difference. I was down 4 pounds saturday morning and back up that 4 this morning! I think weekends are less structured is my problem. I don't even plan my meals on the weekends because I never know what we'll be up to like I do during the week. My husband also is a factor, but again he doesn't force feed me! I try to stay active througout the day so I'm less inclined for boredom eating, which I"m very good at! Maybe if you try to structure your days around your workout and plan out your meals that would help. And I always TRY not to buy the junk in the first place, but with a healthy husband and children who know how to eat things in moderation its very hard! Every day is a struggle for me. Best of luck, hope this helped in some way!0
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It took me a while to stop falling off every week. I'd lose weight during the week then put it back on during the weekend. I finally got tired of the two steps forward, one step back approach and decided to start treating my weekend EXACTLY like a weekday. I eat around the same times and have about the same amount of calories. I may splurge a little, but for the most part its been working for me.
You should try changing a little at a time. workout FIRST thing in the morning on the weekends. That way you can cushion any over eating. Once you get the exercise part down, work on your eating habits. Also, try something other than the gym on weekends. Go for a walk or jog outside, Go dancing, or whatever. Maybe a change of pace will motivate you.0 -
I "fall off the wagon" on random days. "Hey, it's Tuesday, I think I'll eat a whole box of cereal!" Lol! The important thing is to pick yourself up, and get back on that darn wagon! I know it's hard, but don't beat yourself up, just try again tomorrow
. If you don't lose, maybe you at least maintain. I like to think about all the weight I would have gained if I stopped trying, instead of all the weight I'm not losing because I had a bad day. 0 -
I think that eating well and within your allotted calories is a habit. If you constantly allow yourself to "fall off the wagon" on the weekends, it will become a habit that is really tough to break. It happens to the best of us, but try to make it the exception, not the rule.
Also, I try to get in a little more exercise on the weekends since I have more free time to play with. During the week I alternate between going to the gym and running, but on the weekend I'll do both in one day. It gives me a little more freedom in the food department.0 -
I do somewhat but I try very hard to control it. I surround myself with snacks that are healthy so that I can easily make a better option than what my family is eating.
I log everything. Even if I go over. Sometimes after logging I realize it really wasn't all that bad or at least I can learn what was the worst and avoid that next time.
^^^ I do that too.
This weekend was the first weekend though where I was just pure lazy. I already decided that I wasn't going to be good and it was great!! (I wasn't really that bad though).
Dragged myself out of bed 3 hours after my normal wake up time. Took a stroll down to the pub (with Endomondo switched on so that I could get the calories to eat), had a fry-up breakfast, walked to the shop (yes, also logged) and bought some stuff for the day because I had already planned to do nothing - I was sort of good, because the snacks I got was fruit and zero cal drinks, took the dogs for a quick walk around the block and did NOTHING for the rest of the weekend. Just ate and played computer games. Yesterday I just did nothing. Had breakfast, played games, had lunch, played games, had dinner, watched TV, went to bed.
It was fantastic to have "a break". I generally stayed within limits - I was inactive, I was lazing about, just eating junk, but it was still contained.
I even got on the scale this morning (Monday is my weigh-in day) and I was still down from last week (in fact, it was double compared to what I expected, but that was because my weight was flat last week).
Back to the grind and losing the last few bits...(for now, before setting my new goal...)0 -
I "fall off the wagon" on random days. "Hey, it's Tuesday, I think I'll eat a whole box of cereal!" Lol! The important thing is to pick yourself up, and get back on that darn wagon! I know it's hard, but don't beat yourself up, just try again tomorrow. If you don't lose, maybe you at least maintain. I like to think about all the weight I would have gained if I stopped trying, instead of all the weight I'm not losing because I had a bad day.
Good advice!0 -
If it wasn't for weekends I would be in great shape!!!
I can't seem to ever beat them....0 -
I do this too. My gym is at my work, so it's closed on the weekends. I'm going to try to address by doing something, even a long walk, into my weekend routine. Hang in there.0
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I struggle with weekends too. The structure at work--break times and lunch times--and then not getting home until almost 6PM, makes it easy to stay within calorie limits. I have firmly scheduled my workouts during the week, but the weekend is fluid and getting exercise in is less certain.0
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Almost every weekend I fall off the wagon. I'm not sure why. I can't even get to the gym. Seems like if I'm not in my routine of work, then gym I'm not going. I have no children or commitments holding me back, its just my inner lazy fat girl.
The same goes for my eating habits, I eat like crap on the weekends, I think part of it is my husbands influence, but he does not make me put the crap in my mouth.
Any advice for me?
Sounds almost like me!
I don't go way off but I def am not as good as I am on the weekdays. And my hubs is a terrible influence, lol. But I usually do pretty good because I don't want all my hard work to be for nothing!
I don't know how long you have been at this but I think it takes time to get into a regular routine. I mean, it's a lifestyle change. I haven't even been on here for a month, I think, and it takes time!
You will get it and I will too
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I almost have, but have managed to cling on to that weight loss wagon because damn it, it's going to slimville and I want to be on it when it arrives!!0
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Almost every weekend I fall off the wagon. I'm not sure why. I can't even get to the gym. Seems like if I'm not in my routine of work, then gym I'm not going. I have no children or commitments holding me back, its just my inner lazy fat girl.
The same goes for my eating habits, I eat like crap on the weekends, I think part of it is my husbands influence, but he does not make me put the crap in my mouth.
Any advice for me?
Hm.. fall off the wagon? No. Plan it? YES! Even God rested on Sunday! LOL I just plan mine on Saturday!
Saturday is CHEAT DAY! not cheat "meal" but the entire day. I drink lots of beer, eat whatever CRAP I want and dont exercise. Sunday is then considered my "day of rest" where i eat better (to rest my body of all the crap i put into it) and i dont exercise, mostly because im hungover. lol... monday, its back to the grind. Its what works for me, and i have never gained, i always lose and lose consistantly.
Dont beat yourself up over it! My husband works his butt off all week, and i enjoy him on the weekends.. you enjoy him too! So what if you take off the weekend? as long as it isnt hindering your progress, right? I mean, ultimately, its ONE day..think of it just like a weekend from your job... enjoy saturday, then start preparing yourself sunday for monday (start eating a little better, but dont "go to work" yet... thats what i do anyway! lol
Good luck!
Edited to say that this works for me because i am VERY strict during the week... and i am always under goal and alwyas exercise.. so ultimately being calories out versus calories in.. WEEKLY, i am still under goal. You would need to keep track of yours to see if you would be in a deficit to see if this would work for you. 0 -
Alcohol is the devil for me, I'm fine all week and then I'm out and I'm like Oh sure I'll have a burger and garlic cheese fries, then I wake up with a serious case of the guilts Hangover pizza usually follows that. I used to be great on weekends but since I'm nearly at my goal I've eased up a lot on myself. Need to be careful with that... 0
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I feel ike I do that a lot. Seems lately I can't go over a week without over indulging and going over calories! =/
Ways to avoid it...:
Take a small walk, don't wait to be "motivated" ; Just Do It!!
Do not keep junk food in your house if you know you will go crazy on it during the weekend (my temptation: nutella. lol)
Get out music, it seriously helps. Or podcasts, radio... books.... go take a bath. Make an effort to have some "me" time every weekend ... like , saturday.
I just mean time to yourself, like yoga, movie, book, pedicure, something you are doing completely for yourself!0 -
i do too....but come mondays im just back to my regular diet.0
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I do it intentionally, and stay on a strict regime for the other five days. I still exercise quite a bit at weekends, but that allows me to eat and drink more also! So it's stick rigidly to the calories in/out Mon to Fri, then relax things a bit at weekends. I don't normally eat back many exercise calories, but at the weekend I take em all. Additionally I have no alcohol in the week, but out comes the wine on weekends. What the heck, we have to live a bit. If I don't do this, and try to be too strict, it won't last, and I will fall off the wagon..!
Good luck,
Regards,
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I fall off the wagon HARD on weekends. I've been working on my weight loss for over 2 years now and have always splurged some on weekends, but my weekdays balanced it out. Lately, however, it hasn't been working like that anymore. That said, I'm still a believer in cheating a little on weekends. I've just got to reign myself back in to a little from a LOT!0
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I do too but not too much lol..but the guilt kicks in monday. at least i got my work outs in..didnt eat so good though lol :laugh:0
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Yep
6 pounds heavier this morning compared to friday morning. I know a lot of it will disppear, but still, talk about setting yourself back
1 month off the weekend party and we'd all be GOLDEN0 -
GUILTY!! (he says with his hand raised in partial shame). To use a saying from a good friend of mine, "I got my foot caught in the funwheel this weekend."
I try not to feel too guilty about some weekend indulgences. We go to all Wisconsin Badger home football games, so there is a lot of tailgating this time of year. I am still making better choices about what I eat on those days, but the totality of the day is always enough to put me over. I just know that it's as much for my mental health than anything to participate in the occasional weekend event, so I don't beat myself up too much.
The key is to not let it become a HABIT. Enjoy it here and there if necessary, but make sure to get right back on the horse.0
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