Usually I find it very easy to stay within my calorie limits on the weekends. I think that's mainly because I have lay-ins and am not as active so I don't feel hungry. If I go out on a Friday or Saturday night I find it incredibly hard/ nigh on impossible. I drink my entire day's allowance of calories in the space of a few hours and then wake up hungover and devour a Domino's pizza with sides to recover.

I really try and plan my meals and I also think about everything I eat as to how much exercise I will need to burn it off. I also drink lots of water when I feel the urge to eat something I really don't need.

I also struggle on weekends purely because we eat out a lot. It is difficult, not only to find good food but to then try and estimate the calories when logging on MFP.

Here are some changes I have made to ensure that I have some control over what I eat on weekends and so far its been working a treat.

- I stick to ordering a nicoise salad/ salmon salad in most places or a proper steak with vege or salad no mash/ chips/ rice/ pasta
- No dessert.
- I also changed to only drinking vodka and diet coke instead of cocktails and other sugary drinks.
- Have committed to doing some form of exercise sothat I have more calories to play with

All,

I struggle with what calories to track. I like my treadmill calories burned!! lol Between my Fitbit, MFP and some exercise RXNet; it seems like they are so far off from each other.

I go with my Fitbit calories burned unless I am on my treadmill then I use that.

I normally manage to stay within my calories at the weekends, however I find if I go out drinking this is when I go over my calories by a lot!

I used to go out every weekend still when dieting I would just try and make sure I had a meal first so I wasn't tempted to get fast food, I would also try and save some calories in the week to allow for more calories at the weekend.

On the weekends I just eat less, because I normally have two meals (brunch after practice/sunday brunch and then dinner). So if I don't go out, there's no problem. Weekend nights when I do go out however, which I don't track for personal reasons slash inability to measure, are a whole 'nother can of worms.

Basically I know that I workout a lot more on the weekends, since I'm doing my normal workouts plus drumming, and I just try to make sure I do something before I go out at night. I also, although I failed this week, try to stay a bit under my calorie goal earlier in the week so if I go overboard on a weekend my average is still the same.

I actually struggle to eat enough on the weekend. I'll usually have breakfast but then pick at trail mix or have an apple. :ohwell:

I normally do a lot more exercise on the weekends. If I might go 10 or 12 miles on the bike riding session during the week, I go 20 or 30 miles on the bike riding session on the weekend. With that much exercise, I sometimes have problems on the weekend eating enough.

I'm the opposite on the exercise calorie counting. My Strava bike app comes in way less than MFP's calorie's burned measurement for bike riding. I use the lower number, so I don't have to worry too much if I eat the exercise calories back.

I stick within my calories unless I have trained extra sessions to gain calories to use. If u dnot watch it at the weekends that's 104 days per year out of 365 you are blowing. I have a treat etc sometimes, but not every weekend

I incorporate a "treat" day into the middle of the week and then try new healthy recipes on the weekends "time permitting"...

I get so excited about trying new recipes that never think of eating outside my calorie count...

Hope this helps... It works for me...