are weekends harder, how do you cope?

I have been losing the same 4lbs for the last month, weekends are to blame...

I definitely eat more on the weekends. I do great all week and then the weekend comes and i blow it. Ive been working on staying on track on the weekend by working out harder and drinking a ton of water. Its so hard around my house because my husband does not watch what he eats at all. I also weigh in on Wednesdays because its the middle of the week and i have time to recover before i weigh in. I've been able to maintain 1.6 or so pounds loss a week.

Take pizza downstairs?? You guys eat upstairs??

Take pizza downstairs?? You guys eat upstairs??

Lol, I assume she means she sent him and his pizza to the basement!

During the week I am hungry every 2-3 hours and eat my 6 meals a day. But on the weekend I eat the same size meals but only eat maybe 3 times. I do not geel hungry so I figure it's a habit thing.

But I do eat out sometimes on the weekends and it's tough to make good decisions with all the good food.

I prefer the weekend. It gives me more time to plan and cook at home... I'm lucky in that I find cooking relaxing, so it's a double win.

My husband also likes to eat out on the weekends, but I've converted him to enjoying a glass of wine at home instead and indulging in food we make.

I also am more active on weekends and enjoy making that part of my day instead of being stuck at a desk.

I seem to do pretty well during the week but I guess with spare time on my hands I get in trouble and I am going to have to say No to my husband when he wants to go eat fatening foods. I use to make him take pizza downstairs.

they are hard! as hard as that one clay... (it's really hard)

I *just* started adding exercise to my weekends.
That's difficult b/c I like to drink. And I like to stay up late and rink and eat chips.

I've started fiercly logging and, like I said, getting in some exercise on the weekends.

Saying no more chips and cutting back beer and stuff is hard but I want my pants to fit again so....

I still eat within my calorie goal on weekends most of the time...occasionally I go over, but I'm still at an overall deficit when I do. I just tend to get more nutritionally dense foods in during the week as I'm pretty much just sitting in my office and all of my eating is scheduled. On the weekends I'm out and about more...taking kids to park/zoo/aquarium, etc...running errands...doing this and doing that so I tend to not get my usual 5-6 meals per day and I tend to grab a bit while I'm out...usually something kind of junky like a pizza slice or hot dog while I'm doing the weekly Costco run. Generally, my calories are in check, but my macros are whack on the weekends.

Yes weekends are tough! Some things I've done to help:

1. Stopped going out to eat so much. I love to cook so I do that instead. It's cheaper and helps me stay within calories. The tough thing is still with friends. They always want to seem to go out to eat/drink. We do it maybe once a month, so I usually just get what I want.

2. Ramp up your workouts. If you work M-F, chances are you probably have more time on the weekends anyway, so you can do longer workouts or do something active during the day with your family. This will give you more of a buffer for calories.

3. I've had the best success when I eat back half of my exercise calories so I'll do this weekly. Monday through Thursday I won't eat any back and Friday-Sunday I'll eat them all back.

It is REALLY hard when other events get thrown in (birthday parties, weddings, etc.) and I still struggle with them, especially if it's an event revolving around cake!!

Take it in baby steps. If your whole weekend kind of goes out the window, tell yourself that this weekend, I will only have ONE cheat day. Then the next weekend maybe you can do just one cheat MEAL. Etc.

For me
Weekdays - commute, office, commute, 2-3hrs free, sleep. Rinse & repeat. Add 2x1 hour gym sessions if lucky.
Weekends - Gym class, walks, shops, cooking, gardening, car washing - generally more active. A lot easier to 'earn' calories.

It's harder for me during the week.I do a lot of stress munching and the people who work for me are always having some sort of celebration I have to try to ignore ( start of football season party,Halloween,Christmas,The Patriots are in the playoffs,Poor us the Patriots arne't in the Super bowl).

I know I'm going to be bad on the weekends, usually go out drinking at least once. So, I work out really hard on the weekends so I can eat and drink what I want without gaining weight. At least it worked last weekend, hopefully it'll be the same this weekend. I also have struggled with losing during the week and gaining it back on the weekends, till last weekend. So keeping my fingers crossed

Yeah, I'm certain this is because I'm not as busy on weekends. So I analyzed my habits - eating and exercising - and have come up with a pattern that I think will work for me:
1. Keep my calories lower Monday - Thursday (1400); have a higher planned caloric intake (1600) on Friday, Saturday, Sunday
2. Workout 4-5 times a week (which I currently do) and allow myself one or two days a week to eat back my calories.

I think planning what I'm doing\eating around the way I live will be more effective in the long term. For me, the key is recognizing my patterns (and why they exist) and then planning around them, if I can't actually break them.

Anthony...ditto! Harder to not have the cocktails with the girls, I mean I don't want to be a homebody and drinking iced tea is kinda lame...still working on it.

So true, I have a home tiki bar and if I don't mix some cocktails on the weekend I feel like it's going to waste...

I stay busy or hide in my bedroom to prevent snacking and bindging. I have to say since losing a couple of pounds I have more energy and most weekends have to make myself eat something.