Maintaining meals on Weekend

Think of your calorie goal as a weekly goal instead of daily. For example if you're supposed to eat 2000 calories per day (just using this for a round number), your weekly goal would be 14,000 calories. If you want to eat slightly more during the week, and less on the weekends, if you eat 14,000 calories per week, your results would be the same.

Obviously you would figure this out with your calorie goal, not necessarily 2000 calories per day.

I am right there with you. The structure of the week is gone and I have to make sure I am getting the kids fed before ball games or they eat food thr at the park and so do I. Mt. Dew is my enemy. I have drank it for 30 years and cutting back was very hard. I do find myself grabbing a Mt. Dew if my water isn't in reach or cold.

Gina

I tend to eat bigger meals on the weekends, whereas during the week I eat more regular snacks (I think that's mostly to break up the monotony of sitting at my desk all day). It's okay to go under on the weekends as long as you meet your weekly goal, but keep in mind that if you go under for two days, you need to make that up somewhere, which would mean eating even more than you already do during the week. For me, that would be more difficult than just figuring out a way to eat more on the weekends.

Hi All,

During the week I work 9-5(ish) in an office so I can have my meals and snacks regularly, and usually get to around about my targets.

But on weekends I'm hopeless at eating a decent amount usually coming in well under, it's mainly because I just don't feel as hungry.

Does anyone else have a similar problem or not work regular hours, and how do you deal with it? Do you change what you eat or just make sure you do eat the same?

I tend to be in a similar situation. When I plan out my meals for the week, it's usually only for Monday through Friday because I make recipes intended for 4-people (usually) and divide them up across five days. That means my weekends aren't planned for.

But, much like you, my work schedule helps me maintain an eating schedule. I have my breakfast when I get to the office. Then I have a snack. Then I eat lunch at noon. I might have an afternoon snack, and then I eat dinner when I get home.

On the weekends, however, I don't have that kind of schedule. As a result, I sometimes simply FORGET to eat, or I'm busy. When I'm working in the yard for the whole morning, I don't usually take a snack break. So I tend to eat under my goals.

To compensate, I tend to eat meals that don't come out of a cookbook that includes calorie counts, because when the book includes calories, they generally try to keep them low. So I'll do things like buy a Hungry Man meal, or heat up a frozen pizza and spread it over the weekend. I still track my calories, but they tend to come from more calorically dense foods.

ETA: I also sometimes let calorie overages from going to the bar / officer's club on Friday "spill over" into Saturday. So the weekend sometimes absorbs my excesses from the week.