The dreaded weekends!

I encourage eat off your plan on the weekends. Of course, this would be in moderation; however, don't beat yourself up for it. I am STRICT during the week, following a my own modified version of the south beach diet during the week. On the weekends, I ALWAYS stop for McDonalds chocolate chip cookies & an ice cream cone. I did it the whole month of April and still managed to lose 13 pounds.

Your body needs that shock once in a while, but the key is to not go overboard.

Ugghhh,..... the dreaded weekend.... So fun but so bad for the weight loss.... Almost all of april i haven't lost anything because i'd bee so good during the week and then reverse the good work on weekends... Now im really trying to make real changes... Here are tips that i am armimg myself with:

1) Limit your drinks to no more than 2, definitely NO MORE than 3 if you absolutely must .... you'll save tons of calories but mostly you won't be that drunk that you stop caring about watching what you eat
2) Absolutely a must to have a work-out that day and do not eat the calories back before you even go out... save them for the dinner time... if you get so hungry after a workout only have a banana or something very little to make sure your work-out calories will be saved for later
3) Limit your weekend to 2 days cause i know for many weekends start on fridays or even on thursday.... So if u start on friday then be super good on sunday ....
4) Another tip is if you must eat out, try not to go over you maintain calories... this way at least you dont gain anything even if you dont lose

At the restaurant:

1) Dont eat more than one piece of bread under no circumstances.... (the hardest for me actually)
3) When eating dinner never ever finish the whole thing no matter how delicious it is and dont eat from other peoples plates to taste it or w/e..... better to eat half of your dinner and safe the other half to go if its an option
3) Never ever ever eat the whole dessert yourself
4) If party goes late and you get hungry again dont eat pizza or other bad stuff.... something healthy like yogurt or w/e... or if u must have pizza.... only half a slice no more!!!

Anyway.... hope this helps.... this is what i will be trying this weekend....Good luck!

1. Sunday is my rest day, so I don't socialise and keep strictly to my calorie allowance
2. Saturday I tend to socialise and drink. I mitigate these habits by getting up early and going for a run and then maybe doing some strength exercises at home (squats, lunges, press ups, crunches etc). As a good MFPer I of course eat back most of my exercise calories
3. Eating out is the worst as difficult to quantify calories, but I try to use my common sense
4. Going slightly over net calories once a week wont kill you
5. I try not to bore / irritate my non dieting friends by discussing my eating and exercise habits
6. I spend Friday evenings in the gym, I get comments about being anti-social from work colleagues, but work drinking contributed considerably to me putting on weight in the 1st place

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Hubby always cook on weekends = SODIUM :grumble:

Have a structure for the weekends, as much as possible. Plan your food, but allow for some leeway. An extra 100-200 calories usually gives some flexibility. And make substitutions. When I go to the movies with my family, I bring along some extra dark pretzels and a few dark chocolate almonds to munch while they eat popcorn. And if we go out to eat, I make sure to choose a place I can get fish so I'm not stuck with fried foods. I also exercise longer on Saturdays, up to 1 1/2 hours, since I have time, but Sundays are my day off. Good luck!

I do find weekends harder but it does depend if we're eating out etc. This weekend my brother is coming to stay so I know it will be alcohol, eating out and/or takeaways! I usually go for a run on Sunday mornings so I don't worry too much about going over my calories, I tend to make it up through exercise at some point during the weekend.

Like the others, I try to choose healthier options on the menu and if we order pizza I get thin crust with light cheese to save on calories. If I know I've got something big coming up I'll eat less in the week so that I can indulge.

Weekends are meant to be enjoyed, as long as we don't go completely mad I think it's ok!

Well I tend to go astray on the weekends also but now that its summer, my sister and I usually are outside in the yard with the kids and we tend to put some ribs, sausage, hot dogs and corn on the cob on the grill. the bad thing about that menu is we tend to eat right off the grill and drink a few mixed beverages.................thus empty calories! so i need to figure out how to not get sloshed on the weekend!!!!!!!!!

but first things first if you log in the morning you tend to eat what you log, if you drink a full glass of water prior to leaving the house or eating anything you will feel too full to eat right away! Just try what works for you. But ultimately, you will go back to regular weekends so with that said PORTION control is what we all need to practice!

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I love the weekends I can get out of the house I exercise usually 2x as much my long walk or jogs are on the weekends and if I am away from the house my eating is so much better.
Also I was reading people saying how they had a bad meal and gained a pound a pound is 3500 extra calories over your normal I dont think anyone is eating that much extra inb one meal so maybe your extra meal had more sodium and you are hlding some fluid drink some more water get out and sweat some more on the weekend
Love your weekends folks