Weekends *🤨*

What does your typical weekend look like? Do you go out with friends drinking on Saturday nights, or are you more of a homebody? I actually find the weekends easier for me because I am a homebody so I am not usually out and about. It gives me more control over what I eat than the workweek because I have mor econtrol if my time. So I use my weekend to shop for healthy food and cook good meals that still fit within my calorie goals. During the week it is more difficult because at work I am busier and have less options.

Maybe try to use time you have on the weekend to cook a tasty, calorie appropriate meal from an online recipe that you wouldn't normally have time to make during the week?

Try reframing it from wording with usually negative connotations like "binge" to something more positive like "I'm out with my friends and enjoying some chips and drinks because we enjoy each other's company." What you're doing isn't unusual or negative by any means, because it brings you joy, and joy is supposed to fit in this new healthy lifestyle. Have the chocolate. Eat the Doritos.

Since I have more time on weekends, I try to get a workout in both Saturday and Sunday and not rush it -- so sometimes I'm working harder and longer than usual, or trying out a different workout I don't normally do. For me, it's less about offsetting calories as in 1) enjoying movement and the feeling of my body and 2) balancing feel-good movement with feel-good foods (sometimes feel-good foods are smoothies and tofu, othertimes it's margaritas and tacos. Both are good.)