Hello ladies,

So, I started my weightloss last monday and worked so hard all week to stick to my healthy eating and exercise plan. Things were going great, until the weekend where I just ate and ate and ate. I guess I just need some encouraging words to get me in the right mindset for the start of a new week tomorrow

I really need to figure out why I always tend to overdo it at the weekends!

Freyja x.

UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH i hear that girl!!!! that has always been my problem. I wont let myself do it anymore, anytime i think about shoving somthing i dont need in my mouth, i envision myself AFTER i loose the weight, i also have a {goal} pants that i keep near by to look at when i think about eating when i dont need to. its all about your mind set , maybe u think its the weekend i always eat what i want ont he weekend, DONT let yourself as hard as that may be it really is as simple :cough: :cough: as that.

Goodluck!!!!
HUgs RaeRae

what are you doing on the weekends that is so bad and what is your weekday healthy eating plan?

Don't be so hard on yourself, you just started your weight loss journey and it's difficult to change your lifestyle suddenly, especially if it's a drastic change. it's ok to "slip" now and then, as long as in the long run and the big picture you are eating well and exercising. it's no life to live if you can't even have a splurge here and there...keep your chin up and don't get this weekend discourage you.

what helps me keep myself in control and in line with my diet/exercise plan is that when i want to cheat, i think about how much more exercise i would have to do to burn it off...or how much less i would have to eat the next day to make up for it. another is that cheating often involves take-away and i convince myself to have a healthy homemade meal instead by thinking about the money i'll save!

Weekends are always a battle for me too! Some people here do a weekend challenge to help them get through it. I often fall off plan but I try not to overdo it too much.

you took the words out of my mouth. last week i was so good all week, like absolutely perfect. and then as soon as i was out socialising on the weekend it all went out the window. i wish there was something i could do!

it took me a long time to get weekends under control. even now i don't 100% of the time but i'm a lot better than i used to be! but i went from starting the day off the wrong foot and evetually just saying the whole weekend was blown and REALLY taking advantage of it to where i am now.

i don't want to say im really hard or strict on myself but i find it helps a lot to plan out exactly what i'm going to eat on the weekends. if i stray its not the end of the world but at least all the meals i ate up until that point were good ones! i also switched up the way i party- instead of downing margaritas (which are AWFUL cal-wise) i switched to rum and diet.

so i guess the only real advice i can give you is to PLAN and cut yourself some slack. it takes time!

I have the same problem - I'm so good at planning for the week, but weekends are way more spontaneous! Food-wise, that's not a good thing. I've been taking time on the weekends to make my food for the week, so at least if the weekend is a little disasterous I know that the upcoming week will be better. I used to eat spontaneously (ie. ate out a lot) ALL the time, so 5 days out of 7 is a huge improvement.

I can totally relate. What has helped me is to find a meal within my diet plan that I REALLY like and eat that. That way I don't feel deprived. Also, on the weekends I'll sleep in and eat one big meal during the day of something I really like and then fruit for dinner.

Thanks so much for all the replies ladies!

I really think I definitely do need to start planning my weekends a bit better. Later on I am sitting myself down and getting organised!

Thank you all for the tips

Frey x.

i have this problem big time as well. i usually do pretty good all week, even into the weekend. and then sunday nights are my worst time ever. and when i do cheat, its not even just a cheat. it's a full blown binge. idk why i do it and i have a really hard time getting it under control.

but last night for instance, i exercised first, and i hadnt eaten since breakfast so i didnt feel AS bad about the chocolate cake and cookies i'd eaten.

Well don't beat yourself so much. Just get back on track today and try harder next weekend to stay on plan. I think we all struggle on the weekends sometimes.

Freyja,

i do te same thing. what i ahd to do was identify WHY i was doing that. and you know, i work during the week, get in around 2.30pm m ost day and hubby is home around 5 - 6 and the reason i dont eat so much is cos i'm busy. i dont get time to eat at work (bad right?) and when i get home there are clothes and dishes to wash and a house to clean and letters to read.

on a weekend, there's no work to keep me busy for the majority of the day and yet i'm up at roughly the same time (around 6 - 7am on a weekend 4am on a week day) and i get BORED. so bored. nothing keeps me entertained. if you're like me that's when you'll eat the most.

but if you identify the issues it puts you about half way to getting around them. so let yourself off for this weekend gone cos you can't do anything about it and focus on the next one.

I think that I'm just wonky...my weekend problem is usually that I don't eat enough, and then I end up eating a pretty high calorie dinner to make up for it.

During the week, at work, we have lunch at noon nearly every day. At home on the weekends, a lot of times I won't have lunch until around three or four, and then I don't want dinner.

So I still get off track during the weekend, but its more of an 'oh crap, its 10 at night and I've only eaten 700 calories' type of thing.

it's funny how a lot of us seem to have this problem. i still have not figured out how to get this under control. my sundays are often binge eating days, and yesterday was no exception. the only bright side i can see to it right now is that even though i'm still out of control on the weekend, if i factor in the other 5 days, i still come out ahead relative to how i used to be before i started this process. so while i might not be making as much progress as i should, at least things aren't half as bad as they once were.
and yesterday at least my binge was mostly on relatively healthy foods rather than pizza, though the occasional pizza or nacho binge still does happen from time to time. i guess we gotta keep picking ourselves up, dusting ourselves off, and trying again.

This weekend was soo bad. I usually do great on the weekends when I don't have an event involved. I went home over the weekend for a shower and it was terrible. But I started eating badly thur-sun. Ugh! I am disgusted with myself. I feel so jiggly and gross.