taking weekends off

I often take off just one day of the weekend, usually Saturdays. Often it's a big picnic day or dinner with friends and the calories are hard to calculate, or I just want to enjoy myself and not worry about it. I still try to eat fairly well....most of the time, but often go way over, and don't stress about it too much. I still manage to lose weight and it's nice to just have a "vacation" day

i do record my calories but an off is an off. i eat whatever i feel like eating without caring about the number of calories it has.

I tend to take my weekends off as I'm busier during the weekends and find it harder to sit down and log. So far it hasn't really derailed me at all weightless wise.

That would be nice! I've read that it supposedly helps your metabolism not go into starvation mode etc etc. But I'm pretty sure that's a load of crap. And it kind of goes against the whole 'changing your lifestyle' thing if you're only reinventing your weekday lifestyle

I think you will get 'evidence' and advice either way- just like some people swear the atkins diet is the best thing in the world and others will say it is from the devil.

I'll be following this thread in the hope someone comes up with hard evidence that I can eat KFC, cake and drink loads of wine on a weekend and still lose weight

I still log as best I can but Sunday is family day and I'm not going to say no to what my mom has made. That would be cruel all around:frown:

i have 1 meal a week (sunday evening meal) that i literally eat whatever i want and that suits me pretty well for the rest of the weekend i just eat like i normally do in the week.

Its nice to have my evening meal for sunday as a end to the hard work iv done in the week then im ready to get back into the swing of things monday.
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I always count, but have had a few days when I exceeded my personal goal. Once I didn't exercise and exceeded calories and felt like garbage the next day. Of course I am in a plateau and have wondered if a day off wouldn't help. Don't see me doing it though.

I still log as best I can but Sunday is family day and I'm not going to say no to what my mom has made. That would be cruel all around:frown:

I do the same thing. We take the kids to my parents every Sunday for family dinner. I don't want to not eat, or force my mom to make me something special when they have something a little unhealthier planned. I still try to log. I just try to make sure I don't completely over do it, even though it's hard because my mom is an amazing cook!

I don't mind giving myself a day where I go over on calories, but I think if I didn't log them as I went I would go much MORE into craving gorging land than I would with the calorie number staring me in the face.

I haven't taken a day off in 145days. If I want a cookie or a piece of cake, hell even fast food, I work it in to my allotted calories. I can always get in a workout as well to gain excess calories if I need..I've only had fast food a couple times, I had fish and chips, so fish is healthy but the deepfrying isn't, just tried to not go over fat those days either...or sodium...u can work anything in.

I've also logged everything I've ate to the best of my knowledge everyday since I've been here. When I went on vacation without cell service, I wrote down what I ate, and when I got home I entered it, and I had accidentally gone over while on vacation, but I was still in range to beable to loose weight and I didn't gain anything. If there's something that I don't know how many calories, I try to find a close match in system, or try to guess and add to quick add calories...or I add each ingredient individually to get a best guess. If its something I've created, I try to enter it on mfp as a recipe so that I can be exact with calories/fat/sodium/etc.

I am always mindful of what I am putting into the Dear Little Body, although sometimes occasionally I will go over my calorie allowance. I have reached the stage where the food just can't taste good enough for me to risk getting angry at myself for forgetting my goals.

I have taken days off on the weekend in terms of restricting calories but still try to log what I eat. When I get to my maintenance phase I will most likely take Saturdays off, and try to go back to eating some of my favorite foods that I have cut out for now.

It's not so much quantity as trying to calculate what it is. It's going to be off. I know that going in. I accept it without agnst. I am not going to turn down a homemade brownie ever. I can snub the bought ones like there's no tomorrow. Doesn't mean I will eat the pan. I have two brothers who would control that. I am not going to fret about what was in the holondais sauce or the lemon meringue pie. I guess and I don't eat the entire thing but if I'm a little off or a little over, it's all good for me as long as it's real sugar and real butter. My thinking is, and science backs me up, your body handles real food diferently than the junk (hydrogonated veg oils, fake sugar, high fructose corn/glucose syrups). My Mom's cooking is not macdonalds, it's not prepackaged and it wasn't made last week. If you leave it on the counter for a day or two it goes bad. Real food. Good for you no matter the calories.

I still track but most weekends I go over my calories..sometimes a little...sometimes a lot. I try not to stress over it too much. It is what it is. I wanna live life just like everyone else. If its just once a week, I don't see the harm. Now if I were eating out and cheating everyday, yeah, i'm not gonna lose weight. But once a week is fine. Plus it keeps me feeling satisfied and motivated. Cuz I know I had my fun and it's right back to the diet the next day/week whatever

The thing about this MFP deal for me, at least, is that it's nearly effortless. I don't feel hungry nor do I feel the need to take breaks. Maybe I am lucky in that regard, but that's the reason I know that this is it for me, finally I will be a healthy weight. Eventually.

So no, I don't take weekends off because I don't feel like I have to. I don't look at my watch and think "Am I thin yet"?

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