Sunday is the beginning of a new week

BarbaraHelen2013 wrote: »

My week starts on a Monday!

I never understand how a week starts on Sunday to some people...yet those same people refer to Saturday and Sunday as ‘the weekEND’ 🤷‍♀️

To answer your question though, I take each day as an individual day, makes no difference to me, in terms of eating or anything else. No ‘resets’ just one day at a time.

I say that my week starts on Sunday because that is the first day of my work week. I call Thurs/Fri/Sat my weekend. Because that is MY weekend. But as most people think of Sat/Sunday as the weekend due to working Mon-Fri I may refer to it as “the” weekend in conversation.

I go day by day but also view calorie intake by the week and that week goes Sun-Sat.

OP, Sunday is meal prep day for me. I meal prep for my workdays then freestyle the weekend.
By freestyle I don’t mean “cheat days” or whichever term you like, I just mean I think of what I want each day and make it fit instead of having it pre-planned days ahead like my work week.

BarbaraHelen2013 wrote: »

My week starts on a Monday!

I never understand how a week starts on Sunday to some people...yet those same people refer to Saturday and Sunday as ‘the weekEND’ 🤷‍♀️

To answer your question though, I take each day as an individual day, makes no difference to me, in terms of eating or anything else. No ‘resets’ just one day at a time.

Well, if you look at a standard monthly calendar, the column for Sundays is on the left, followed by Mon., Tues., Wed., Thurs., Fri., and the column for Saturdays is on the right, then you have to the next for Sunday, like it's the start of the new week.

It's not how I think about my life, but it doesn't seem odd that people should think about it that way.

amusedmonkey wrote: »

My week starts on Saturday, so how about that The world is big and diverse enough to have different traditions, arrangements, and time/date formats.

Back to the question: I don't really plan for the week, I'm terrible at it and I'm terrible at sticking with a plan. I usually do rough pre-logging in the morning for what I imagine my day would look like, and modify my food log as needed throughout the day. Sunday is usually my rest day, so I just relax, spend some time with family, and do things I enjoy.

I was more referring to the dichotomy between weeks starting on Sunday (or Saturday in your case) and the word used for Saturday and Sunday collectively! Weekend! Of course it makes no material difference how people look at their calendars and schedules around the world of different cultures. 🤷‍♀️

I LOVE Sundays. It's taken me a long time to create the Sunday that I want. I grew up hating them and hated them for years and years after. But now, I have certain rituals that I love. I start with an early trail run with one of my sisters. It's in a state park forest, and we're out there rain or shine. Then we get coffee and chat for an hour or so. Head home, shower, start the washing machine. Eat something, then plan my weekly dinners for the family and make the shopping list based on those. Grocery shop (hate it), put everything away, keep laundry going. By 3pm, I am either sitting on the floor of my bedroom watching a favorite show, folding laundry and drinking a beer, or finished with laundry and sitting with my husband and winding down the weekend with a beer. Fix dinner, get ready for Monday, read in bed. I love it.

In the end there's no right or wrong day for the week to start. Whatever works is perfectly fine way to use your calendar.

In the end it doesn't matter what day you consider to be the first day of the week as long as you record that date as dd/mm/yy (small/larger/largest) which is correct way as opposed to the silly mm/dd/yy approach

Love the Dowager!

For me, Monday is the start of the new week. Sundays are for chillin'.