I'd be thin if we didn't have weekends

astralsky wrote: »

evivahealth wrote: »

charms3155 wrote: »

Instead of the whole weekend being a bust I will plan my breakfast, lunch and snacks and then let loose in the evenings. Keeping your water intake up will help too.

This is really good advice ^^

I also calorie cycle - I average my calories out across the week. If my daily goal is 1330 calories, I eat around 1100 on week days when I have a good routine and then that gives me a bit more wiggle room on weekends. I usually eat about 1500 on a Friday, 2000 calories on a Saturday and 1500 on a Sunday. This only works though if you log everything on weekends as well so you can get an accurate average. Works for me! I've lost about 30kgs.

I know !!I must log everything !!!
I tend to give up when I can see I'm into a loser

How long have you been using MFP? Have you tried to log your weekends or do you give up at the first hurdle?

astralsky wrote: »

LW3380 wrote: »

astralsky wrote: »

evivahealth wrote: »

charms3155 wrote: »

Instead of the whole weekend being a bust I will plan my breakfast, lunch and snacks and then let loose in the evenings. Keeping your water intake up will help too.

This is really good advice ^^

I also calorie cycle - I average my calories out across the week. If my daily goal is 1330 calories, I eat around 1100 on week days when I have a good routine and then that gives me a bit more wiggle room on weekends. I usually eat about 1500 on a Friday, 2000 calories on a Saturday and 1500 on a Sunday. This only works though if you log everything on weekends as well so you can get an accurate average. Works for me! I've lost about 30kgs.

I know !!I must log everything !!!
I tend to give up when I can see I'm into a loser

How long have you been using MFP? Have you tried to log your weekends or do you give up at the first hurdle?

I've used it on and off for a while
This is my longest spell
I'm looking forward to light nights and better weather so I can get out on some long walks
I don't want to cut out any foods
I do try and do enough exercise to make that possible
I don't use the extra calories I get in the week from exercise
And try not to be bad all weekend
I want to find a balance
So that I can maintain it and don't just end up putting back on what I lose !!!

If you're not eating your exercise calories during the week, then you probably aren't really messing anything up, seeing as MFP set up in a way that you should be eating at least some of those back - take a look at your calories over the week (go into the nutrition option at the bottom of your food diary and change the view to weekly net calories and you will be able to see how you're doing over the last 7 days), are you just freaking out over the scale climbing up after the weekend?

astralsky wrote: »

tinkerbellang83 wrote: »

astralsky wrote: »

LW3380 wrote: »

astralsky wrote: »

evivahealth wrote: »

charms3155 wrote: »

Instead of the whole weekend being a bust I will plan my breakfast, lunch and snacks and then let loose in the evenings. Keeping your water intake up will help too.

This is really good advice ^^

I also calorie cycle - I average my calories out across the week. If my daily goal is 1330 calories, I eat around 1100 on week days when I have a good routine and then that gives me a bit more wiggle room on weekends. I usually eat about 1500 on a Friday, 2000 calories on a Saturday and 1500 on a Sunday. This only works though if you log everything on weekends as well so you can get an accurate average. Works for me! I've lost about 30kgs.

I know !!I must log everything !!!
I tend to give up when I can see I'm into a loser

How long have you been using MFP? Have you tried to log your weekends or do you give up at the first hurdle?

I've used it on and off for a while
This is my longest spell
I'm looking forward to light nights and better weather so I can get out on some long walks
I don't want to cut out any foods
I do try and do enough exercise to make that possible
I don't use the extra calories I get in the week from exercise
And try not to be bad all weekend
I want to find a balance
So that I can maintain it and don't just end up putting back on what I lose !!!

If you're not eating your exercise calories during the week, then you probably aren't really messing anything up, seeing as MFP set up in a way that you should be eating at least some of those back - take a look at your calories over the week (go into the nutrition option at the bottom of your food diary and change the view to weekly net calories and you will be able to see how you're doing over the last 7 days), are you just freaking out over the scale climbing up after the weekend?

I think I get down because I have the best intentions
Just sometimes it goes pear shaped
And if I don't see movement on the scales
It's disheartening
I often don't put my exercise in mfp so that I'm not tempted to use them
Maybe I need to log everything
I'll look at the calories and see what it says

The scale isn't going to move downwards all the time, and the whole point of exercise calories is to eat them, not eating them just creates a bigger deficit which is more likely to make you hungrier and if it's too big of a deficit can actually be bad for your health.