Will I still lose weight if I diet 5 days a week?

The 5:2 diet restricts calories to 500 on 2 days a week and eats "normally" on the other 5. Similar to what you propose.

However a massive pigout and drinking session at the weekend may be hard to offset with a daily restriction for 5 days - if you cut 1000 a day for 5 days and have a 2000 cal blowout at the weekend you have a net deficit for the week of 3000 or under a pound.

Maybe up your exercising those days?

and although you don't have to diet those days, try and pick better options, I.e if you fancy Pizza, don't have take away, make your own where you pick what goes on there? If you fancy crisps, have the baked version?

this will proberbly help you a bit more than stopping your diet all together, plus it may help you during the week more as your body won't be craving all the foods you have just eaten that weekend

And make sure you Log whatever you do eat! (you may not realise what your eating, this may help you pick better things that you still enjoy)

hope this helps, and good luck!

No, no you won't.

Weight loss isn't a daily thing, if you eat well for 5 days then pig-out on the weekend your nett calories for the week may well be above maintenance - ergo you'll put on weight. I'm not saying you can't treat yourself, have "cheat days" or eat at maintenance instead of deficit for a few days. But while you're "dieting", doing it half-assed will get you nowhere fast.

It is possible to adjust/arrange your calories in such a way that you can allow yourself more calories on a particular day and less on others.

The problem is that it is not easy to do and you need to be extremely disciplined regarding your calorie intake & for this reason it is not recommended for most people.

I have done this in the past and had positive results from it ( I have since went back a constant number of calories per day due to ease of keeping track).

If you were to try it there are a few key points to remember:

- Weight loss is as simple as calories in/calories out
- Body composition is dependent on what makes up those calories e.g. protein/fats/carbs

- You need to know what your total weekly net calories have to be to acheive a loss in weight
- Once you have done this you would then breakdown your calories into individual days i.e. x calories per day mon-fri & y calories for your higher days.

- You will find that depending when you weight yourself the weight will fluctuate dramatically. From personal experience my weight could be as much as 8lbs higher after a high calorie day. This was due to my muscle glycogen being completely depleted by the end of the week after my training (powerlifting in my case), when you eat a higher level of calories particularly carbohydrates- which make up most treats your muscle glycogen replenishes, glycogen attracts storage of water which results in a large increase in water weight ( for this reason, most people shouldn't do this as it does tends to make them panic when they see the scales).

Sorry for the lengthy reply but hopefully this will help decide if this method is for you, so in summary:

- Determine weekly calories

- Breakdown weekly calories

- Try to pick only a single day for your higher calories if possible ( I always did a saturday)

- If you weigh yourself in the next couple of days after a high calorie intake expect a weight increase (water weight)

- I'd recommend weighing myself either the day before the high calorie day or if you weigh yourself multiple times a week, you need to work out your average weight per week.

Have a look at calorie cycling, rather than just eating whatever you want for 3 days. I could EASILY eat my way out of a deficite by eating what I wanted on 3 days and restricting calories on 4 days.

I do tend to eat a bit more on a weekend and have more treats, so I try and do bigger workouts and make sure we do something active like taking kids to the park and walking and chasing them around. That way, an extra treat won't harm too much.

You will ultimately fail because diet and exercise are not jobs that should be dreaded and avoided, they are a lifestyle. And until you accept that you need a change in lifestyle, any progress you make will be lost.

I do this and have lost over a stone since January. I am careful and under my calorie goal Monday - Thursday and then eat 'normally' over Friday and the weekend. This doesn't mean I eat a pizza and ice cream every night for those three nights, I just don't count calories and eat without stressing about my weight.

I find that over the weekend I am socialising and busy so I don't want to go to a barbecue and have to say 'Oh no just a burger with no bun and salad with no dressing for me' or 'only half a glass of wine for me as I've reached my calorie goal today'. Life is about enjoying things!!

I find that this works just fine for me, so try it and see how you get on, it may work for you or it may not!

I eat whatever I want ...lost weight...

The difference is I stayed in goal which you can do while still eating what you want...maybe not as much of it....

There is no reason to limit the types of foods you eat just the number of calories...