Weekend ruins everything

Weekends don't ruin everything - you and your perception of food do!
You can still track food / calories over the week end - a pizza or whichever junk food you eat is still carbs, protein and fat.... eat that pizza and deduct it from your macros - simple as!

Right with you on this one!

I find it really hard with social things on weekends. I do have a couple of strategies that have helped keep it under control, and I've been losing weight pretty consistently!

1. Pre logging calories. If I know I'm going to drink, I will add say 4 or 5 drinks (rum & diet coke are a good low calorie option) then work the rest of the day around that. I usually exercise especially hard in the morning to allow myself some leeway if I go over. You could try doing the same with pizza, like save half of your daily cals for pizza dinner and earn more through exercise/

2. With restaurants I usually look up the menu online and decide what I want to get in advance and estimate the calories as best I can so I can make the rest of the day fit. If I already know what I'm getting I find I'm less likely to just go 'oh what the hell' and order a massive plate of nachos or something.

3. If I'm usually not that hungry the next day, so I just listen to my body and don't try to hit my goal if I don't need to eat that much.

4. Even with planning I still end up overdoing it and going over around every two weeks or so. Because I know this will happen, what I decided to do is not eat back most of my exercise calories during the week. I usually burn 400-500 calories a day at the gym so I sort of save them for when I know I'm inevitably going to go over. So even if I eat like 2000 cals over on a saturday I'm usually still under for the week, and I get to enjoy myself and don't feel too deprived. There was one month I did this where I had a wedding, an engagement party, a dinner and a 50th birthday party on 4 consecutive weekends, I ate so much each time and had a blast and still lost weight that month

Good luck xx

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Stop "dieting" and find a way of life dude.

So another regretful Sunday after a Saturday with too much pizza and too many calories... I have never been a binge eater per se but find myself in that situation when I'm trying to lose.

I have changed my diet approach but the weekends are still a problem. For a while I tried eating 1200 or 1300 a day but always crashed. Now I have decided on 1500 which works better. I just got a new job and I've been walking to and from work every day - about 45-60 minutes of very fast walking, twice a day. I usually eat back half the exercise calories or so.

This has been working well, I have a good routine going. But I just can't manage when I don't have that routine. I'm trying to save some money as well and not go out on the weekends, but I'm often left with not much to do. I work on my blog and run some errands but it is so hard without that structure of actually going to work (where I have healthy options stocked in the fridge). I start out Friday with a glass of wine a little too early, then that turns to three or four, in which case my judgment is impaired, I get super hungry and attack the fridge.
I have actually been looking for some part time work in the weekends just to get the same routine there.

Anyone else struggling with the weekends, or used to and have conquered it?

I would rephrase your title to "I let the weekend ruin everything." Until you fully realize you are in control you are not going to make this work for you.

Right with you on this one!

I find it really hard with social things on weekends. I do have a couple of strategies that have helped keep it under control, and I've been losing weight pretty consistently!

1. Pre logging calories. If I know I'm going to drink, I will add say 4 or 5 drinks (rum & diet coke are a good low calorie option) then work the rest of the day around that. I usually exercise especially hard in the morning to allow myself some leeway if I go over. You could try doing the same with pizza, like save half of your daily cals for pizza dinner and earn more through exercise/

2. With restaurants I usually look up the menu online and decide what I want to get in advance and estimate the calories as best I can so I can make the rest of the day fit. If I already know what I'm getting I find I'm less likely to just go 'oh what the hell' and order a massive plate of nachos or something.

3. If I'm usually not that hungry the next day, so I just listen to my body and don't try to hit my goal if I don't need to eat that much.

4. Even with planning I still end up overdoing it and going over around every two weeks or so. Because I know this will happen, what I decided to do is not eat back most of my exercise calories during the week. I usually burn 400-500 calories a day at the gym so I sort of save them for when I know I'm inevitably going to go over. So even if I eat like 2000 cals over on a saturday I'm usually still under for the week, and I get to enjoy myself and don't feel too deprived. There was one month I did this where I had a wedding, an engagement party, a dinner and a 50th birthday party on 4 consecutive weekends, I ate so much each time and had a blast and still lost weight that month

Good luck xx

Thanks for the advice!

I have had problems in the past only having one drink. As soon as I get the taste of alcohol on my tongue it only goes one way. But after many long nights and being dead tired at the office I was motivated to change. The past week I have been able to have one or two glasses of red wine and go to bed, so really happy about that. If I only I can extend that to the weekends...

It annoys me that dieting is so much harder than it used to be. I'm only 23 but I notice a big difference from back when I was 18. Losing 10 lbs was the easiest thing in the world when I was younger.

That is so true, the last time I did this I was 21 and it was not only easy, but really consistent- I lost half a kilo every week for 12 weeks like clockwork. I'm 26 now and found it much harder to get back into it, I think now I've been doing this a while it's gotten easier

Yeah I can relate to the drinking too, a couple weeks ago I had my 4 rum&diet cokes for the night all planned out, then as soon as I arrived my rich friends started buying me cocktails! Plus when I've been drinking and especially if I know I've already gone over my calories I tend to REALLY start wanting greasy food and can't quite remember the reasons not to. I ended up having so many sugary cocktails, ate a bowl of pretzels at the bar then couldn't say no when my friends brought in delicious pizza.. but I had a ****ing ball that night, probably danced off a few calories and because I had stayed under for the week with exercise I was still on track and still lost weight. You can do it! xx

Plan some more intense workouts over the weekend. That will fill up the time with a healthier activity that doesn't revolve around pizza, and also gives you some extra calories to splurge with. Plus, for me after I have a kickass workout, I usually don't want to destroy all my hard work with bad eating.

Go for a run, nothing wrong with pizza.