Strategy suggestions for eating on weekend away?

JaimieAN · March 2017

Suggestions welcome for how to handle eating within my calorie allotment for an upcoming weekend away.

A group of friends are renting a house for a friend's landmark birthday. It sounds like we will be buying groceries and cooking and hanging out at home. Only problem is, from the group emails it sounds like it's going to be a lot of treat-type foods. I'm flying in for the weekend, won't have a car, and won't be there early enough to participate in the grocery shopping.

Is it super lame to even bring up including healthier options in the grocery shopping? Do I not mention it and just try my best to keep portions small?

I know a third option is just to throw caution to the wind and eat whatever for one weekend - but I've been doing so well and making such good progress I'm loathe to take any step backward.

What would you do?

katzenfluff · March 2017

Eat in moderation and enjoy. Watch the alcohol. Get back on track when you get home.

ccsernica · March 2017

I'd have fun and not worry so much. It's not as if you're doing this every weekend. If you've been doing well before, you'll continue to do well afterward. At the very least you can allow yourself to eat maintenance for a couple of days rather than a deficit. That way you might not make any progress for those two days, but you won't lose ground either.

You probably won't be sedentary the whole weekend either, so with a higher activity level than normal you can actually get away with eating more than usual.

rollerjog · March 2017

eat what ever you want and have a great time, make it like a cheat weekend then get right back on it when you get home, i dont think it will make that big of a difference, its not like your going to gain a lot of weight in a couple days if so it will be water weight or food in your system

Strategy suggestions for eating on weekend away?

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