Weekend overeater

Dude, you and I have the same problem!
You know what my issue is? That I work out of the house all week and I am stuck in the office away from my refrigerator and I have no issue keeping my diet but the weekend... FML. It's so hard not to dig into the freaking potato chips

Anyone have any tips?

Here's my trick. I make a healthy pizza, using a low carb tortilla or "flat-out" as the crust, add my sauce, veggies and a little meat of some sort with carefully measured out amount of cheese. I can always get it under 400 cals for a large (and satisfying) amount of pizza that I really like. Then I measure out a little bit of wine, and fill the glass up with Mendota Springs sparkling water (zero cals and zero sodium) to make a sparking wine with 1/4th the calories. Does the trick for me. Just requires a little creativity!

I tend to exercise more on the weekends to try and combat it.

This is probably one of the most hardest habits to break! I'm in with both of you and it takes a different "mindset" come the weekend. The only thing I can say is you have to talk to yourself, letting yourself know the weekend is here but I can still do this. It probably took me a good month before I realized that I can do this on the weekend too. We aren't social butterflies where we have parties to go to every weekend, so it's easier for me. We eat pizza usually on the weekends, but I make sure I plan ahead for it. I still eat my usual breakfast and lunch, but then if I know what we're having for supper, I'll make sure to log it and maybe add a little bit more exercise. Even if walking for 20 minutes is all you can get in, go for it; it's still something.

Personally, I'm a stress eater, which proved true to come through the past 3 days. I'm about half and half on that right now. My mind will eventually gravitate towards the good, IF I keep reminding myself I can do this. It's really a lot about positive thinking, giving yourself the boost you need and, oh yeah, your friends here at MFP. I would gather to say a few thousand have been in the same boat.

I sometimes ramble, so I hope my post makes sense!

Feel free to add me as a friend if you'd like.

Laura

At the weekend you have time for looong workouts! Do the time before you do the crime. Take yourself out for over an hour. I burn over 700 calories doing a 70 minute walk/run. You could split this into two half-hour workouts each day.

But when you eat and drink afterwards, record everything as you go and stop before you reach your daily limit. Tough, but better than ruining a great week's eating!

I'm the same, I generally spend the weekdays working out however, at the weekend when I'm staying with the mrs we tend to pig out a little bit.
The simple solution for me is to work hard during the week at the gym and make small changes at the weekend to minimise the damage.
The main differences I have made is changing from drinking fizzy juice to drinking water and changing from full fat (blue) milk to organic Soy milk which has cut out alot of the empty calories, fat and cholesterol from my weekends.

-Barry

Oh! I have this problem, too! I'm still working out a plan for dealing with it, but for now I do this:

If I'm under my calories for the week, I give myself a little wiggle room. If you're familiar with weight watchers, that's like your flex points or whatever. It's LONG-TERM in and out, so you can go over a bit on the weekend if you're under for the week and still reach your goals.

Plus, I have more time on weekends, so I get in great big long workouts focusing on cardio. I really love being in the gym when I don't have any time pressure, no cell phone, just my tunes, and it's usually not that busy Saturday afternoons.

Also, if I feel like I want a splurge, I get something at the grocery store when I do my errands, like sushi or a thin crust pizza. And then I count it against my exercise calories. It keeps me from feeling deprived but it's not like I'm going out to a restaurant for something fried.

About the drinking... I'm at a loss. I've found it's been pretty easy to stop drinking during the week, but with my friends, I just want to party! I'm going to have to try that wine spritzer plan! Great idea!

Good luck to you and keep up the good work! You just need a plan and it'll be smooth sailing!

try calorie zig zagging i ate 4500 cal on friday yet am lighter than i was pre binge

what is calorie zig zagging?

I haev the same problem, and with zig-zagging calories, I eat less a couple of days in the week, and save these calories for the weekend - I dont want to stop eating a little more, and going out on the weekend, so I am just better in the week!

I'm not a drinker so the only problem I have at the weekend is that I always tend to eat out! Doh!

Most people I know are busy during the week so a lot of my socialising is at the weekend and it normally means going out and eating out.

I am always more active at the weekend - especially when it comes to walking around and shopping so I normally give myself some leeway in that but I always try to get a workout in either day. (Well I say always - I mean before I damaged my feet so badly I could barely walk for 3months. I'm starting to get back on track now!)

I do this too!!! I always think if I stopped being social, I'd be at my goal weight haha. But, what fun is that?? Some weekends, we'll go out Friday AND Saturday....by Sunday, I'm eating Wendy's double stacks and frosties. YIKES! I try to compensate by eating less during the week, but I'm still just "maintaining" , not losing. Gotta figure this out!

Not a weekend overeater - just a weekend overdrinker :drinker:

When I started on here I had the same problem, I would want to eat a lot on the weekends, and I still do now. But I do my biggest workouts of the week on Saturday and Sunday, this gives me some cushion on the calories if I need. Also, I always eat before I go out unless I am going to dinner, and then it is all about thinking about what you should eat and making healthy choices.

If you are going to go out for drinks, don't have those drinks filled with juice they will kill your calorie count in a heartbeat and all the juices most bars use are packed with sugar, high fructose corn syrup, and artifical flavoring. Don't use mixers in your drinks. I like to have a scotch on the rocks. I know a couple of people who love getting a vodka and water tall and then squezzing a lime and lemon wedge into it.

Now that I have found I can go out, have a good time and have some drinks with friends, while staying under my calorie count. If I feel th urge to do something that will take me over my count I give myself a little guilt trip and ask myself if it is worth it, when I know I don't need it.

But If you do have a bad meal every now and then, don't worry about it, one bad meal isn't going to kill your meal plan, but doing it over and over again will.

Snap! My eating and drinking are ATROCIOUS on the weekend! This weekend I'm going to try to do mammoth exercise to combat it, but got birthday parties on Friday and Saturday so will be tough!

My problem on weekends is I don't get up until noon, so that's three meals I've missed already. So when I wake up I'm starving...or I have to get up because the fams wants to go grocery shopping...so I don't get my first meal until about 2:00pm, and then I eat my face off...not to mention that's prime time to eat out, snack, drink, etc...I tend to fall off the wagon most weekends...that's the one thing I'm trying really hard to work on, but I refuse to get my *kitten* out of bed in order to eat lol