New to the site-weekends are my weakness

I think many on here may disagree with me, but especially because you don't have a huge amount to lose, you can probably
splurge a bit on weekends as long as you are good with sticking to your calories and working out during the week. That's what
I usually do and still lost 10lbs in 4 months. I have tried to be more careful with my choices when I'm out or not eat SO much of
something that's high calorie but life's about enjoying food too, so I do

well i have the same problem, i do amazingly awsome during the week, but come the weekends i might as well not even track it is how i feel, knowing i cant really do that and expect to get somewhere, the only thing i can do is think "now if i do this i will be sabotaging my whole efforts ive worked hard for during the week and it will be a never ending circle of not losing any thing, so even though im still strugling with this problem, im doing the best i can, ive got 20lbs im tryin to lose now and my ultimite goal of 40, maybe when you go out with friends make healthier choices on food, drink water instead of soda, and count count count them calories, good luck i hope you find what works for you:flowerforyou:

Weekends used to be a problem for me too. I've got a couple of suggestions, which I hope will work for you:

* Have your weekly "weigh-in" on Monday (that's what I do)
* Get a lot of exercise on weekends ... so you can have more "exercise" calories (walk to the coffee shop, garden first thing in the morning, take the dog for a walk etc)
* You have more time to be inventive with your meals

Good luck ...

I started on Tuesday also. I downloaded the app on my iPod. I don't have ant tried and true tips, but what I was going to do was just try not to freak out and go WAY overboard.

One of the things that helps me is to be sure I start out those weekend days with a good breakfast. If I start out eating right I tend to have more control the rest of the day. An old truism for personal control over anything is ti never let yourself be too tired or too hungry. So don't try to avoid all food knowing you are having dinner out. It can be counter productive. Eat light during the day but eat... Definately get in exercise to up your allowed calories.
As for resteraunt meals. One of the cool things about the site is that you can plug food in before you go to help you make decisions. Most reteraunt food is in here and if its not you can usually go to the resteraunt web site and get the info. Have a plan and then stick to it. Its much easier to get a meal you can eat without restraint then to count on pushing the plate away, You can do this!

I think weekends are hard for most people...Me included. When I do get "off track" that's when it happens... I try to make sure I have "good choices" in the house if it's an around the house kind of weekend and make decent choices if I do go out - I can never eat the whole meal - but that's ok...most items make a great 2nd dinner. I have to lean on my Shakeology shakes a bit more on the weekends also unless I'm super busy. When I have the down time over the weekend, I make sure to use some of it for additional work out time too and that helps make up for anything 'extra' that I might feed my face!

~Nichole
www.onefitnessmojo.com

I have the same problem. I quickly realized that having a "cheat weekend" was sabotaging the progress of the previous week. So now I just do one or two cheat meals. I don't stress over it, but I exercise more restraint.

Just keep logging and be honest. If it went in your mouth then log it. I'm bad on the weekends too. But I still try my best to log everything and try to make better choices. I still lose weight.

You will probably start to get better on the weekends , maybe not perfect, but I'd bet you will get better.