Weekend diet & Exercise

I find it easier to do longer runs and tougher gym workouts at the weekend as I have more time. however, I also find it easier to eat a LOT more too! as long as I'm not over my calorie goal by too much, I don't worry about it.

It is harder, but I find that if you stay busy and not dilly dally around the house with food, it's easier to stay on track. When I'm busy, I actually find myself way below my target because I've been too busy doing other things than to eat. And I arm myself with healthy, energizing snacks as well such as nuts or fruits. Healthy carbs. And I try to fit in a workout during the weekend so I don't feel like a slob.

I do, but I'm in less control over the meals I eat at the weekend (:

I find it easier. At home, I can cook and make my meals. During the week, I might forget something, or I don't bring enough to eat and then have to go get something to eat. Also, I'm tired at night and don't want to cook. Weekends, my workouts rock, and my eating is stellar. It's time for me to retire. Work is unhealthy for me.

I give myself 1 day a week to enjoy food and activities. I try to stay within my calorie limit but if I go over that's fine too! A FREE DAY. Then I don't feel deprived of fried foods, snacks, (Chocolate) or a cocktail.

Yes I do a great job week days then the weekend begins all my hard work disappear

I find it hard to but with more time to go for long walks, etc. I don't go over my limit. Just looking at my wardrobe gives me help stay on track. Cant wait to be able to jump into some of the clothes again.

Working out yes because I wake up late and do stuff at night so it's harder to find time (or easier to make excuses) but I find it easier with the calories because I usually eat less on the weekends, cause I don't wake up in time to make breakfast (college dining hall hours) so then have lunch, and have dinner, and then have drinks. food is the same healthyness I'd say, but then I have leftover calories that I drink so idk calorie wise I'm fine

Yes I absolutely find it harder to do both on weekends. Everyone is around demanding all kinds of food, and if you throw some excursions in there it makes a schedule hard to stick to as well.

I correct for this by using my "sensible meal" from the slim fast plan I'm on whenever we are out and eating something is part of the socializing, ie fundraiser involving food, birthday dinner, etc. IF food is not the main central part of the outing like a play date, or show for my business then I use a meal bar and or snack bar depending how long we'll be there. This morning for instance there had been a big build up in making blueberry pancakes as per a story my little one had been reading, rather than burst his bubble and not make them or not partake, I just factored them into my day as part of my real meal my plan allows.

As for exercise I schedule all my workouts with other mom's with similar schedule as me and during the week, when weekend chaos has no chance of interfering. We even got smart and omitted Monday as a possible day because of all the 3 day weekends that might interfere. So I have standing appointments for 2 workouts a week with 2 different mom's and am lining the third one up soon.

I hope any of these strategies strikes a chord with you or leads you to ideas of your own to work around difficult time while still achieving the performance level you want as far as sticking to eating plan, and exercise.

(By the way I also have a rewards system in place that allows me to spend the percentage of budget I have left at the end of the month on a Pandora charm for my "rewards" bracelet I bought when I started this journey. The amount I spend coincides with the percentage of time for that month that I stayed on plan with diet and exercise. So far this month I am about 90% accuracy...which means that if I get to Jan 31st with whatever budget I've saved up I get to use 90% of that for a charm for my Pandora bracelet. If I have 100 dollars I get a 90 dollar charm, if I have 50 I get a 40 dollar charm. If my percent of performance goes down so does my percent of what I spend on my reward/charm. This keeps me from giving up at every slip up because I'd rather get to spend 50% or even 25% of what I have at the end of the month and have a charm, than no charm at all.)

Weekend is my weapon, i exercise like mad have enough time to cook exactly what i want, today i burned 1800 calories, in the week i just do my insanity workouts and maybe a run or xtrainer, i try as best as i can to smash it on weekends.