Weekends undo me!

Some suggestions: Try choosing one meal to splurge on so you don't feel deprived. Throw out the junk food so that it's not in your house to tempt you. Choose your Friday night drinks better (rum and diet coke, that sort of thing).

I agree with bathsheba toss the junk and one splurge meal a week. Also try limiting how much you drink on Friday night and have a glass of water in between drinks, I found that if I drink too much the next day I crave greasy junk food. Wine is also a decent drink and good for you in moderation. As for not being able to find the motivation to exercise that may come from eating better or you may need to force yourself to exercise go bike to a park or forest or what have you in your area. Hope this helps.

Generally through out the week i'm very structured and have a routine of eating well, daily exercise cycling too & from work and not really drinking either..

However Friday night arrives, drinks after work, means I skip dinner or eat rubbish food, and then for the remainder of the weekend I eat really crappily and can't find motivation to exercise - which i find is part of the fact that in the house there is wide selection of food to eat where when you are at the office working you can't really stop and eat what you want since the only food is what you might have brought in.

Its almost like my brain is saying "its weekend - means i'm off from eating properly, don't need to exercise and can drink alcohol"

Anyone else can relate to this - how do you break this weekend where you don't have your normal routine! Its' really frustrating as i'll lose weight up to Friday and then put it back on over the weekend!

The problem starts with Friday night, Saturday is a spin off from that. Alcohol causes spikes and troughs in blood sugar that night, that and poor quality sleep messes with your body's ability to process calories properly, causes blood sugar dips and cravings the next day. Start with your Friday night meal - take more food to work and eat before you go for drinks and line your stomach or ensure you get something healthy and solid (not just a salad) as soon as you start drinking, not some hours later when your inhibitions are down. Find a way to drink slower and get less dehydrated, white wine spritzers with soda water work for me.

You don't have to exercise at the weekend, it's healthy to have rest days if you are training at the right high intensity all week. It's not healthy/ safe to exercise when you are dehydrated or have low blood sugar anyway. Maybe work on fixing Sunday, assuming you don't drink again Saturday night. What are you keeping in the house that are trigger foods? Are you meal planning?

I've gotta to say i don't have this issue anymore, thank god! ! I've trained myself to have the mindset that i get 4 heavy exercises a week, usually about a hour sometimes over, 1 short night (30 minute workout) and one day off, i save that last day as if it's my oops day, in case i eat garbage, i have that day to fix it, other wise i eat good, and guess what my second day off!

So here's an idea, works wonders, make ua workout chart, on sat, sun, make one a exercise day, the other the off day, put it in your kitchen close to where u will see it everyday, and make it as big as u can, i did it, and i can holler to my hub, "what's tonight say" he find the night, and hollers back" ...... " so them we both now, also put the time of the workout, like i said, most of mine are 1 to 1.5 hour workouts.. I hope this help, i hate seeing weekends blew up on you! U can do this!

This is definitely my problem too! I am so self disciplined during the week then the weekend arrives and I am a complete pig! I stick to around 1250 calories per day then it goes straight out of the window on Friday night.. I was thinking about having a higher calorie count for Friday and Saturday which will still allow me to enjoy some treats, but not to get too carried away, has anyone else done this? It's a bit of a Weight Watchers mentality I guess. If anyone else is in the same boat or needs support then let's help each other x