Weekends Kill My Diet!

Have you tried logging your foods for Saturday on Friday night before you go to bed? That might help you stay on track some.

Also, do you plan for some meal or day when you have a "free day"? Saturday lunch or dinner is usually my meal that I don't worry about calories. I will have some meal or treat I've been craving all week. It helps me really stay on track the rest of the week, and then I get Sunday to get back on track. Maybe if you give yourself permissions to not count some meal on Saturday, it might help you stay more in control the rest of the weekend?

Good luck! You can do it!

-Alison

The fact that you're calling it a "diet" might be part of the problem too.

I agree that it helps to fill in the meal before you eat it. If I have already done this I will stick closer to what I have entered because I don't want to go back in and change it. Especially if we are going out to eat. I research the restaurant and enter meal and that is what I order.

I think it's also easy to "lose focus" on the weekends because unlike the work-week they're not as structured. if you're like me you're catching up on a million things and running all over the place on the weekends. and we tend to go out to eat more often on weekends - sometimes spontaneously because we're out and about and hungry. I think having mealplans for dinner on the weekends helps. If I know that I've planned to cook something and the meat is thawed or whatever then I'm less likely to say the heck with it and go crazy at a restaurant.

These are some great ideas... I too BLOW my weekends and then feel I am only catching up during the week to just maintain and I haven't been lossing....

Thanks for adding this link. I found it very helpful!!!!

Keep up the good work
God Bless

find a sporty hobby.

i dont get to spend much time with my horse during the week as I work during the day and go to the stables for about 2 hours only in the evenings after work. but weekends i spend at the stables almost all day.

a) i am getting quite some exercise by mucking out and riding
and
b) i dont have much time to eat crap if I am keeping myself that busy

i eat fruit for breakfast on the way to the stables and then a quick healthy lunch (salad or similar), another fruit in the afternoon and in the evening i am usually so tired i either dont eat at all, or I cannot be bothered to cook something so have a salad again or soup. in fact since i got my horse, i started losing weight regularly and i dont ruin the hard work during the week and sticking to calories by binging at the weekend on pizza, curry, ice creams, cakes,...

so get a hobby that keeps you busy and gets you out and about at weekends. :flowerforyou:

Ok I need some help --- I am so disciplined through the week with what I eat and logging my food, but I can not for the life of me understand why I let it go when Saturday morning comes around. I eat like crap on Saturday and Sunday and now come Monday morning I feel guilty that I do that to myself. How do you keep focus on the weekends? :sad:

Does not sound like you enjoy the food you are eating mon-fri..If you did you would enjoy eating them on sat-sun. Seems like you can't wait to get to the weekends to let loose. What you eat, how you prepare your meals can make all the difference in your success in achieving your goals. I know a bodybuilder who is a chef. He lost alot of weight over the years. An incredible transformation. He uses the word "transformation" Any food or meal you enjoy can be transformed in to a healthy version you can enjoy.

When I started dieting I did not like the food I ate, so it was a drag. I eventually started putting in the effort to find the way to make everything I eat something I truely enjoy. Now the nutritious foods I eat are all I want to eat. Even when I have cheat meals I make healthy versions. I just make the foods so tasty there is no reason to eat anything else.:)