:eek: Not the Weekend!!!
 

If you're anything like, weekends are always a struggle diet-wise. In order to keep myself on track this weekend, I'm going to be journalling my food etc. here for the next three days. Join me if you so desire!

I'm in.

Only it's 4 days for me because of Canadian Thanksgiving!

I'm in, but I think I'll just keep doing it on my journal thread :)

Oh I feel your pain over the weekend! I'm going to plan everything in fitday today because I've D/C our internet at home!

My weekend food frustration... the state fair (ie, fried.. everything you could ever imagine) and tailgating for saturdays football game I guess this is more alcohol frustration than anything.

I'm so bad at journaling food over the weekend. My goal is to not eat fair food (do I need fried twinkies? probably not), to get in at least 2 good work outs, stay active and not drink too much.

FRIED TWINKIES :eek: and I thought battered Mars Bars were bad....

Everybody :goodvibes: for the weekend. I'm planning ahead - I'm going out shopping tonight to buy things for my packed lunch tomorrow! I'm going to stuff everything into fitday to see what it'll pan out like. Then we're having dinner out tomorrow night. I might pick the salad :faint:

We can do it! We just have to want to do it bad enough! :dance:

ahh weekends are the worst for me and I just got my period! yuck! so my plan, is to make sure I only eat from my core foods list. not eat out!!!! that is where and when I mess up everything. Not snack on my son's leftovers. that is a problem I can't seem to get away from. I've been doing better since starting core since he doesn't eat core food most of the time.
Pl;us I want to make sure I work out tonight and tomorrow morning.
ttyl
Jennie

hmmmm... not drink too much on this girls night out on sat... and get some kind of work out in.... ... .. I need to buy a new journal.

Friday

Breakfast:
0.5 c. oatmeal
1 small peach
0.5 c. 1% cottage cheese

Morning snack:
40 grams of baby carrots

Lunch:
1 large homemade whole wheat bun
1 tbsp. all-natural peanut butter
1 tbsp. raspberry preserves

Dinner:
1 cup green beans
2 slices cheese pizza

Evening "snacks":
1 Ghiraradelli caramel square
2.5 c. low fat ice cream
4.5 c. reese's cereal
2/3 c. low fat milk
3 slices of cheese pizza

Exercise: 50 min. elliptical and 30 min. bike (+ tons of stairs)

Water: 2 nalgenes+

No afternoon snack and a lunch with very little protein left me ravenous by about 5 pm, and we don't have much at home to cook with (especially quick), so DH went and got a medium cheese pizza. Not the best of options, BUT I ate 2 servings of veggies before he got there and gulped 8 oz. of water so that I would be more controlled, and I was! Two pieces of cheese pizza, about 450 calories. Not bad at all really, and since my fat intake has been pretty low today, the fat grams didn't throw me off either. So now that I'm no longer hungry and I'm feeling good about choices, I'm going to do some grocery shopping! I'm sure I'll be back later with an evening snack...
Grrr... okay, so the my evening snack turned turned into an eating fest, I won't go into it in too much detail 'cuz I'm against virtual food porn as much as the next guy! :) But basically, at the grocery store, I decided to treat myself to one of those little ghirardelli chocolate square things (about 180 cals.) since I was right at 1200 cals. for the day thus far. Then I saw the Reeses cereal, and I walked by, then I walked back!!! Nooooo... that was my downfall, because by that point I was rationalizing that I could use a "high" day and that it would be good for my metabolism, blah, blah, blah... not all entirely untrue, but I should know that I can't treat myself like this without getting out of control... which I did. The chocolate square was consumed, then some cereal with milk, then some low-fat ice cream, then the rest of the leftover pizza... luckily, today is a new day and I've got a gameplan. I've added up the last 5 day's worth of calories and subtracted it from 10,500 (7 days at 1500 cals.) and found out that in order for me to stay at or below that amount, I only have 1538 calories left. Soooo - if I keep my cals. low (below 1300) and burn an extra 500 cals. both today and tomorrow, I'll pretty much even out.

FRIDAY
1 medium iced latte with whipped cream.... :devil: :devil: BUT!! wait please dont yell at me... That is my FIRST one in 3 months, it just was SCREAMING "buy me buy me, drink me, i am soooooooooooooooo yummy :devil: " oohhh... the rest of the weekend will be better.. I PROMISE! :^:

omg i am so in on this thread, the weekends are the absolute worst for me. BUT today i weighed in and reached my mini goal that i have had since VALENTINE'S DAY. (i know, talk about a lack of motivation over the past several months) i REALLY want to be at that weight, or at least my goal for the week, on monday morning. unfortunately i already had a bagel this morning (so many cals) but i also went running so i got some excercise in. i just need to be careful to eat smartly tonight and tomorrow at the bf's company picnic (shouldnt be too hard). i am going to workout tomorrow morning and try not to eat too much at the beach...shouldnt be too hard since i will be with all my friends who are super skinny, weight loss godesses:)

Friday

B: Reduced Fat Bisquick Pancakes - this was a control test. I did good :D I only had 2 of them.
L: Bran flakes w/ sliced almonds (I was running late for work and needed something quick) This was an early lunch.
S: Lime chips - Bad me, but I was dying for something salty.
D: Max & Ermas - shared Black Bean Rollups w/ DH and had chicken salad for entree - had a rum and coke (I needed it)
D: Carmel Frappucino (Venti - I split w/ DH) Too many carbs left me w/ a hankering for a frap, I couldn't resist

This was a horrible day calorie wise. I was over 2000. I'm going for a long walk today and I'm staying on track today. I didn't weigh in on Friday, I'm going to do it on Monday. I'm too scared to do it now.

Saturday:
Breakfast:
Slept through it!

Lunch:
1 large tortilla (I think you know what kind) ;)
0.5 cup vegetarian refried beans
2 black olives
1 oz. lowfat mozzarella cheese

Late afternoon snacks:
1 small banana
10 small fruit leather pouches

"Dinner":
4 chocolate peanut butter rice cakes
1 cup low fat ice cream

Evening snack:
1 small homemade cinnamon roll

Exercise: 50 min. elliptical/65 min. bike/35 min. elliptical with no arms

Water: 2 nalgenes

Okay, so maybe I went overboard on the fruit leather, but seriously, those have NEVER tasted so good before! They're all-fruit ones with no added sugar and each one counts for a half serving of fruit, so I guess it wasn't the worst choice in the world! I wasn't quite able to stick to the below 1300 cals. plan today - the DH and I were baking for a bake sale he has on Monday and it was killing me. I couldn't do it - but I was able to have just one cinnamon roll and stay under 1500 cals. - so all in all, a victory. Don't you love my healthy dinner - my mother would kill me if she saw that!

weekend hasn't been my friend. I know i won't make it to the gym, but tonight i am going out dancing. =sighs=

I was doing so well....and then crashed. Had a BBQ/homebrewing party to go to last night and started off the night drinking water and diet rockstar, eating veggies and baked beans instead of the 3 B's (beer, bratwurst and burgers). Then had some chips tempting me from the other room and caught a glimpse of what looked like peanut m&m's...which I don't like so it was ok and then i thought "wait maybe they are peanut BUTTER m&m's (which i love)" so I had to try them and I was a goner from then on out. They were gone by the end of the night and I think I had a 1/4 bottle of vodka in my stomach by then too. Ugh.

I have a 5-k race coming up in 2 weeks so I am swearing off alcohol until then to prepare. If I can fit into a sexy Halloween costume by then *maybe* I can drink the following weekend.

Sunday:

Breakfast:
0.5 c. oatmeal
1 small peach
40 grams raisins

Morning snack:
3 chocolate peanut butter rice cakes

Afternoon snack:
1 cup low fat ice cream
1 small homemade cinnamon roll

Dinner:
1 cup homemade minestrone soup
0.5 cup cottage cheese

I blew this weekend so bad. What's the problem with me lately? The only reason I lost this week was because I got a new (accurate) scale. This week I will do well and I will lose 2-3 pounds or ELSE!!!

Stephanie...I'm right there with you...2-3 lbs this week, or else!!! Hey, I just noticed we're at the same weight! :)

My only question for you "or else" ladies is - or else what? :) You cut off an arm? Actually, that's not a bad idea, the damn things must a weigh a good 15 pounds each...

mmmm.... nutella... WHY did you have to bring that up byebigbutt! I could eat the entire jar in two sittings!

Originally Posted by trnsfrmnreplace:
mmmm.... nutella... WHY did you have to bring that up byebigbutt! I could eat the entire jar in two sittings!

I with you there, trnsfrmnreplace. I'm ready to go pull a jar of the stuff out of the cabinet. I wish there wasn't any in the house.

LMAO Jenicra!!!

Originally Posted by trnsfrmnreplace:
mmmm.... nutella... WHY did you have to bring that up byebigbutt! I could eat the entire jar in two sittings!

Sorry I'm a chocolate fiend, that's the only kind I allow myself since I can pair it with something good. My favorite is to take a little Nutella and some peanut butter and dip apple slices in both. Yummmmmmy!

Oh the food porn laydees!

I'm reporting in to say - I managed to have a clean weekend! I factored in my "free meal" on Saturday evening and I was only up to about 2200 cals even with my fish and chips! Sunday was clean too! Then when we were in bed I caught the binge bug, I wanted to eat and eat and eat but I stayed in bed, then got out and cleaned my teeth!

So how did I do it? I took a picnic out on Saturday when we were walking round town. a fruit and nut bar and some chicken and bacon for an organic roll we went to buy. We went to a food market and bought loads of healthy Organic food. I swear apples have never tasted so good! Then we were out for dinner, so I decided to keep to diet coke to drink, have whatever I wanted for my main meal and a dessert if I wanted one! I had fish and chips, the chips were gorgeous, but I left 1/3 of them. I also stole some feta cheese from DF's plate. We were going to go to a different pub for dessert but decided to go to the supermarket to buy some stuff for pudding. I got chocolate chip cake bars, chocolate cookies, ice cream and chocolate buttons. I came home and made a HUGE sundae, then I only ate the ice cream, the rest tasted horrible :barf: I am finally turning into a foodie! I'm starting to hate processed food... I'm getting worried about me! :rofl:

Then on Sunday DF was out doing a police shift so I kept myself busy with 3 loads of washing, supermarket shopping, ironing, kill bill, a nice bath etc... And just ate when I was hungry. Then one of my fillings fell out... :mad: So that put paid to the chocolate I was about to scoff! :doh:

:goodvibes:

BUMP!

How is everyone going to manage this weekend?

I'm not sure of our plans for tomorrow but DF wants to go to Canterbury, which should be really nice. However he finishes his shift at 2am so I reckon he'll be a big tired monster tomorrow! :D

So I think I'm going to do what I did last weekend, a small luxury shop this afternoon for foodie treats like some luvverly bread and whatever else is nice. So I'll pack myself a lunch/snacks for wherever we go out tomorrow and possibly a meal out.

Then on Sunday we're going to watch a car race and I have no idea what kinds of food will be there but I'm guessing burger vans! So again I might just pack myself a sandwhich and allow myself some chips or something :dunno: Anyways I ain't going to be stuffing my face like usual - I don't want to disrupt my run of 4 point days in the points challenge ;)

Anyone else got any fail-proof weekend strategies?

I always get nervous Friday's because I always want to go out to dinner. I am gonna have to think of a way to distract myself!!!

I'm supposed to go out to Cheesecake Factory for a birthday. This weekend, the diet is shot to ****.

I've been having a lot of stress at work/school lately, so chances are I will pig out this weekend. :( The weather is still awful, we haven't seen the sun in over a week! It is really depressing, which makes me want to EAT EAT EAT. Maybe I can haul my butt to the gym instead of eating. It's supposed to be nice on Sunday, so BF and I are thinking of going for a hike or something.

:( i had a horrible weekend eating-wise. i am truly, like the little face, blue. i weighed in this morning (i weigh in on mondays) and i was up FOUR pounds from last week. i think i might weigh in tomorrow b/c i know there is no way i could have gained all that weight in two days, and i must be retaining some water weight. regardless, i still shouldnt have eaten so much. i have been putting my body on detox to try to recover from the stress of eating too much! haha i never would have said that before i started dieting!!