DOES ANYONE ELSE FALL OFF THE WAGON ON THE WEEKENDS?

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!

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!!

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!

I binged all weekend now reaked with guilt I do great during the week but our weekends are food and drinks.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

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.

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!

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,
David

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:

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.