I do good from Sunday-Friday night, then everything I know I shouldnt be doing I do. Theres just about 1 1/2 days that my plan goes totally out the window. Im not sure what it is. I get so mad at myself after. But I cant seem to control the weekends.I have no discipline. Am I the only one who just forgets everything completley once they start there Friday nights???

There is definitely a lot more temptation on weekends, and less of a "schedule". It makes staying OP really hard. All we can do is keep fighting, try our best, and if we slip try not to beat ourselves over the head too much. The only way I have found to make staying OP easier is trying not to make plans based around food (restaurant outings, for example).

No - I treat the weekends like any other day. I go to the grocery store on Friday afternoons and plan my meals for the weekend, just like a weekday. I eat the same breakfast, lunch and snacks as a regular day. If I go out to a restaurant with friends on the weekend, I try to make healthy choices just like a restaurant during the week.

Everything counts. That's all there is to it. So, you need to extend your plan so the weekends don't turn into a food party. Remember that you're trying to LOSE WEIGHT, and that's a 24/7 proposition. Eating off plan on weekends will probably stall your weight loss, and then you'll wonder why it's not working.

So, make a plan! Stay with it! And if you do go out, keep track of what you eat and how much. It can help you at least know where you're at.

Hang in there! You can do it!
Jay

I have this problem too. Although I have pinpointed my issue. My kids are home and eating everything they want to eat whenever they want to. Husband is home, he is one of these tall skinny guys that can eat anything and not gain a lb. And well...we have relationship issues. He is just wonderful about making me feel bad about myself and therefore...I eat!
This weekend I have decided it is going to STOP! The Metabolic Center has a counselor in there that gives weekly classes and she has been amazing. She has shown me that I really deserve better for myself and that giving in because someone else is passing that emotional boundary is not a healthy reaction. But that instead I should 'treat' myself by eating healthy.
It's hard. It's going to be a long road. But I do deserve better!

xeracia,

Yes, you do deserve better!

Jay

Most of us deserve to be treated better by ourselves! That includes eating better.

I do better during the week because I work. I take my lunch bag full of goodies and when it is gone, no more food. We don't have vending machines, nor do folks bring in very much. When I am home, I tend to snack. I eat good stuff, because that's all there is, but still...Also, I tend to be cooking things for portioning out and freezing. There is room for snacking in that arena, too. I do the best I can with what I have to work with.

I used to have a very big problem eating on the weekends because I am so busy with school during the week, by the time the weekend rolled around, I was exhausted and didn't want to cook, so we ate out a lot. Because we are pretty broke much of the time, we would eat at taco shops and other cheap places with unhealthy food choices. I've gotten better at eating on the weekends, thanks in part to my hubby who volunteers to cook a meal on the weekend. We plan out our meals for the week on Friday, go food shopping on Saturday and I try to plan something simple for Saturday night, like pita pizzas or something. We do have a meal on the weekends that is sort of bad/in the 700-1000 cal range, but it's only one meal so I don't feel too bad.

I used to really struggle with weekends...until I made MONDAY my official weigh-in day. Now I eat right on weekends because I want my loss the next day.

Yes, I have that problem too.

In high school I had a Friday night schedule. Go out and "party" with friends (which made me hungry), stop at a grocery store on the way home. But a thing of Phish Food, a bag of chips, dip, 2 liter of Coke, and some pizza. Go home, watch movies, eat til completely stuffed and nauseaous. Then take 2 sleeping pills and sleep 13 hours straight.

Nothing. About. That. Was. Healthy!

And then on Saturday and Sunday...I had nothing to do...there's no good TV shows that play on weekends...so all that boredom resulted in me eating more and more. This also explains that as a rule, I gain more weight in summer than any other season, including the holiday season.

My solution? Find things to do on the weekened. Occupy myself anyway other way so that I don't have free time to just sit and crave pizza. And on Friday nights, I relax by taking a long shower with a new body wash and...of course...exercise!

The best investment I've made is to buy a training and nutrition diary. I write down e.v.e.r.y.t.h.i.n.g that goes into my mouth every day. That's the only way I can stay accountable. I also try to eat at the same times that I would if it were a week day and I have the structure of being at work and having set break times.

Another thing that I've done to keep myself on track is that I have a star chart just like the ones people have to encourage their kids to behave well. I love the feeling of putting a star on my chart each time I exercise and seeing an empty chart is often all I need to get me back on track.

I actually have the opposite problem on the weekends. I tend to not eat enough. without a schedule to fall back on...i just eat whenever. And alot of times i don't feel like eating the same ol foods as during the week, so i tend to not eat much at all. Like yesterday....i got up around 9:30am, but I didn't eat until 1:30pm. I had a Healthy Choice Pinnini. Then I didn't eat again until last night around 6:30pm. I had half a bowl of vegetable soup with rice. trust me...it wasn't much. but that was allllll I had all day. I just don't eat much on the weekend.