I gain all back over the weekend HELP??

Do the same thing on the weekends as every other day... eat at your deficit and log everything. Its a 'work week' not a 'healthy week'. Healthy is all the time, regardless of what the calendar says.

i am in a kinda similar situation, in that I easily stick to healthy eating and my goals mid week and then stray at the weekend. this is a combination of eating out more and being in situations where you do not control your meal (i.e. eating with family and friends). I am 10 months in and I am still struggling with this and I am sure it is the reason for my slow weight loss.

It might help if you opened up your diary and told us a bit more about your caloric intake and exercise regime etc. I would also say that my weight can fluctuate by up to 4lb dependent on what I eat and it sounds like this is what is happening to you.

Good luck - please don't give up!

Hi

I assume you increase your calories over the weekend and/or stop exercising?

If so and you really want to indulge, fine, but make better choices. If you drink lager, reduce the intake. If you drink cocktails, swap the sugary flavouring for diet tonic water. If you eat a whole pizza, share it with someone.

If you want to eat and drink to your heart's content at the weekend, do it AFTER you've done a significant amount of exercise. And I mean significant. A tough, sustained period of activity. That way, the pizza and beer is a reward that is not going to have such a big impact on your weight.

Ideally, only indulge in very small treats or changes to your regime at the weekends. If you are determined to go out drinking, do it in a club where you can dance. Aim for 10 minutes of dancing for every drink. It won't burn it all away, but it will help. If you are craving that pizza, have a small one, or half a one, and without any other indulgences all weekend. Then eat it and really savour it.

Hope some of this helps - I agree, weekends are hard.

Here is my experience with that. On the weekend I tend to sit on my butt a little more, college football, NFL, so when I do this I also tend to eat more because I have nothing better to do.

So you need a plan. When you feel yourself going to get something and you don't really need it. AKA you are not really hungry you are habit eating. Go for a walk, job, bike ride, etc. I actually have a yoga mat on my floor in front of the TV. Sometimes I will just do a random stretch routine. Just trying to keep my mind active so I am not thinking about eating. I also do other things Like play words with friends, WTP, etc. Keeps the mind engaged....

What are your calories set to?
I used to try eat 1400 calories during the week but then I would binge on weekends. So I lost during the week and gained over the weekend. Setting my calories up a bit has helped to eat enough that I don't need to binge.

You could also save some calories up from the week to use over the weekend?

I'm in the same boat, I've always been bad at weekends and have got nowhere. Time to up my game and have a clean weekend and see if it makes a difference.

The weekends are life. You have to make this work for every day. You don't have to be restrictive, but try to be more consistent.

1200 is too low for most people, so it may just be that you're ravenous by the weekend. Use MFP settings to lose no more than 1lb a week, and eat back your exercise calories, or at least a good proportion of them. I love to eat more at weekends, but fortunately I have a lot more time on my hands for a long and/or tough exercise session, so I can eat more without worrying!

Don't forget, if you've just had two days of eating more, even if your average calories for the week are still under, you'll be weighing food and water weight still in your digestive system come Monday morning. Maybe you'd find changing your weigh-in day to Friday morning more motivating, and don't sneak a peek on other days!

I weigh about the same as you, and my calories are set at 1500 to lose 1lb per week, and that's with a sedentary lifestyle. I do a lot of exercise, and don't always eat back all of my exercise calories, but other than that I try to stick to the plan. On rest days, I aim to be on plan or just a little over. I'm never very hungry, though. I only ignore hunger pangs right before bed. It sounds like you might be making yourself hungry too often with such a low calorie count, making your body crave all of the very worst foods that you can't resist on the weekend.

I had a bad weekend last weekend, due to a family get together and involving a LOT of pizza. I knew it was bad, and because I logged everything in MFP I knew HOW bad it was, and was a little bit more strict during the week. I also did two long workouts on Saturday morning, which partially offset the huge meal later. And I did NOT get on the scales on Monday. That would have been really demotivating, but because I didn't, I lost 1.5lbs! I stick to 1 weigh-in per week, on Friday mornings, and I recommend that to you. If you are weighing yourself on Friday and then again on Monday it can only be bad news, and that is going to demotivate you!

So in short, up your daily calories (take MFP's recommendation), log everything and stick to one weigh-in per week. If you're still not losing, you can look back at the logs to see where you're going wrong.

I weigh in on Fridays...because I like to enjoy my weekends. I would imagine I am my heaviest on Sunday night/Monday morning. I used to weigh in monday and got discouraged so I switch to fridays and havent looked back since.

I make Saturday my weekly cheat day, and I always make sure Sunday is beast day at the gym, or vice versa. It works excellently for me.

I weigh in on Fridays...because I like to enjoy my weekends. I would imagine I am my heaviest on Sunday night/Monday morning. I used to weigh in monday and got discouraged so I switch to fridays and havent looked back since.

This is my routine.. Friday gives me an overall picture of how i am doing..its far enough removed from Sat night that I have time to burn of all of that excess.

Hi All,

Thank you for the tips.
I eat 1200 max per day. Im 5.1 tall and weigh 161lbs.
I do eat a lot on the weekends, just little snacks, but with high calories and salt.
But then if im losing this 2lbs every week and gaining it back, its all just water weight and not losing actual fat at all. How dperessing.:sad:

I just hate being the same weight every monday when im on the scale.
So this weekend im gonna try hard, and hope that my weight is much lesser that im used to on a monday, that way on friday in will loose more that usual.

Confursing i know.

up your calories. i'm 4' 11-3/4" and i eat 1300 plus i eat back my exercise calories. i started around the same weight as you too. you just need to adjust your weekend eating. just because you feel like you've lost "2lbs" during the week doesn't mean you can "celebrate" on the weekends at least this was MY thinking. because i enjoy my snacks and wine on the weekends i up my exercise so it balances out. instead of running 30-45 minutes like during the week i run an hour - 1.5 hours. also make sure you are drinking plenty of water on the weekends. i have a tendency to slack on the water on the weekends so i make sure wherever i am i have a bottle of water with me to drink.