Weekend Eating/Drinking

I just limit how much I drink, I still workout on the weekend and when it comes to food, I treat myself but I try not to go overboard!

Pick one day of the weekend to be a cheat day. Then also I look at the weekly numbers. I think it's about you and what's going to work for you. If you play on the weekend and still do well during the week then it should even out. You're 22 and should have fun with your friends etc.

Do what you want and what works for you.

I"m the exact same way. I can be completely error-free during the workweek but when I'm not sitting on front of a computer all day, I tend to want to eat more.

I've always been told that calories couldn't really be rolled over day to day, but if you leave leftover calories over the week I'd think it'd balance itself out.

I'm not one to give up my alcohol on the weekends because of my diet either. My tip would be to stop drinking (or switch to water for a while then switch back) when you feel you're nearing the point where you're justifying eating whatever you want. When I go out, I usually end up at the IHOP next to my favorite bar and I've learned that if I don't let myself get to the point where I'll "let loose" and eat whatever I want, then I find I have the resolve to make better meal selections when out at 2am. If you're drinking a lot of your calories you have to make it up somewhere, and the best is to not go overboard with the late night meals that often come with late night drinking.

Now this doesn't work for everyone but I had success with eating very low cal throughout the week and saving cals for the weekend. I consistently lost 2 lbs/wk eating 1200 cals+exercise cals during the week and doing whatever on the weekends.

I have had some success doing the same: staying fairly clean during the week and relaxing a bit on weekends. I also like the concept of "splurge meals."

My preference though now is to do either or...either I drink and eat clean, or splurge on meals and not drink. I still try to keep everything in check though...I don't believe you can "save" your calories. Your body needs x amount of calories on any given day...any less and you lose weight and any excess you will gain.

Hm, I should try and get to the gym on weekends, but usually I am hungover hahaha. Yeah, I need to figure out an eating schedule for the weekend. The only way I seem to succeed is if I have a schedule going..

I'm not 22 anymore but this is still so me! I am doing a workout DVD (Jillian's 30 day shred) and find it's easy to get that done. It's only 25 minutes and it's feasible to do hungover. I did it last Saturday morning and I'm pretty sure I was still drunk (don't judge). I got my workout in and it helped stave off the hangover. I'd say do whatever workout you can muster on the weekends and try to be reasonable when you're in a reasonable state of mind.

Not at all a professional opinion, but I don't suggest eating after drinking. My ex was a weight/conditioning coach and knew a lot about nutrition and this was his explanation to me. Alcohol is pretty hard for the body to deal with, so during and after drinking, it is working to rid the body of it. When you put food in your system as well, the body doesn't really know what to do with it, so it sets it aside and is stored for later. If you're hungover and don't work off those extra cals you can pretty much guess what they are going to be stored as.

Also, my weekends used to be pretty bad until i started making bigger meals on later weekdays (Thursday and Friday) and saving the leftovers for the weekend. That way I don't have to cook and I already know what I'm going to eat. It helps out a lot since I go to my parents house pretty much every weekend and they have really crappy food there.