How to avoid weight gain on weekend

VinodSharma2015
VinodSharma2015 Posts: 2 Member
edited November 2024 in Goal: Maintaining Weight
It is a constant challenge to avoid unnecessary eating and drinking especially on weekends. Say no to all snack, nurse your first drink for long time. Leave early if possible. Joy is in being with friends.

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  • ExRelaySprinter
    ExRelaySprinter Posts: 874 Member
    Yep, same as this ^^.
  • livingleanlivingclean
    livingleanlivingclean Posts: 11,751 Member
    No more challenging than during the week imo.
    Calorie/carb cycling gives you more flexibility on the weekend for when you want to have a drink or meal out with friends without derailing yourself...
  • jennifer_417
    jennifer_417 Posts: 12,344 Member
    Having a plan always helps. Wanna have a drink and some extra high-calorie foods? Fine. But plan for it. Do a bit of exercise, and cut a few calories out of breakfast/dinner. Also, be flexible. I always do best when I have a plan, even if I end up deviating from it.
  • sijomial
    sijomial Posts: 19,809 Member
    edited June 2015
    Say no to all snacks - No thanks, I enjoy snacks and fit them in my weekly calorie allowance.

    Nurse your first drink for long time - No thanks.

    Leave early if possible. Joy is in being with friends - That's contradictory!

    Think you have completely the wrong mind-set for long term maintenance, deprivation is a miserable way to plan on spending the rest of your life.
  • snowflakesav
    snowflakesav Posts: 649 Member
    I try to stay more active over weekends which allows me more indulgences.

    you may want to to some soul searching about what these eating and drinking events mean to you and if doing them on a regular basis is really your path to happiness. Change is difficult. Where would you rather be in life than nursing a drink?
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    I just keep a deficit most days to make up for the days I eat more.

    I ate 3200 calories yesterday... should still be at maintenance for the week, or even have a small deficit.
  • belimawr
    belimawr Posts: 1,155 Member
    Francl27 wrote: »
    I just keep a deficit most days to make up for the days I eat more.

    What most people do from what I see on here, myself included. I keep at a slight deficit most days during the week, and a little extra exercise on weekends to allow myself some room and have a good time. It's worked so far.

    I still wonder what kind of partying some people do that will derail weeks or months of effort in a single weekend. I think if I were to eat enough in one day to gain more than a pound (ore two), I'd also end up feeling sick and miserable (and likely extperiencing that once would be enough to keep me from overdoing it again). It is quite a bit of food and drink, when you think about it.
  • VinodSharma2015
    VinodSharma2015 Posts: 2 Member
    Happy to know most folks are already aware and planning for weekend . If you must party hard, eat less whole week, may be next week also. Maintaining weight requires more sustained will power than losing it. Weight watching is part of life
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    well, weight naturally fluctuates...you don't gain a bunch of fat over a weekend...I will enjoy my weekend just as I've been enjoying my weekend for the last 3 years of doing this thank you very much.
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
    sijomial wrote: »
    Say no to all snacks - No thanks, I enjoy snacks and fit them in my weekly calorie allowance.

    Nurse your first drink for long time - No thanks.

    Leave early if possible. Joy is in being with friends - That's contradictory!

    Think you have completely the wrong mind-set for long term maintenance, deprivation is a miserable way to plan on spending the rest of your life.

    cosign
  • Dainty59
    Dainty59 Posts: 39 Member
    Just increase your workout that helps me smile
  • maxit
    maxit Posts: 880 Member
    VinodSharma2015 wrote: »
    It is a constant challenge to avoid unnecessary eating and drinking especially on weekends. Say no to all snack, nurse your first drink for long time. Leave early if possible. Joy is in being with friends.

    My strategy:
    Plan for snacks (eat some, not others; be adequately fed before going in the first place)
    Plan for 2 drinks if alcohol (I am a lightweight when it comes to alcohol, anyway, so 2 is plenty lol)
    Leave when ready to go


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