Comments on: Weekend Eating can wreck Diets

By: Secretia

Secretia — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:11:54 +0000

2 long days of pigging out more than erases 5 diet days, maybe 10 diet days! So let’s stop that shit!

Secretia

By: Conquer The Monkey

Conquer The Monkey — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:28:54 +0000

well this information is a buzz kill over the holidays!!!! not a surprise but a buzz kill nonetheless since my strategy is always be good during the week and loosen up on the w/end!!! I’ll get back on the ball after the holidays adn this move

good reminders tho Ann!!!
Happy Holidays!

By: sophia

sophia — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 01:55:45 +0000

lol, I think that’s the spirit. Make every calorie count, and if you’re gonna go over, it’s gotta be “worth it”! And then you can go back into moderation with the less “worthy” stuff.

By: Stephanie Faris

Stephanie Faris — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:56:53 +0000

I’m real bad about thinking of each day as a fresh start. If I blow my diet, I end up figuring may as well eat whatever I want for the rest of the day since I’ve already blown it. I know…sucky thinking!

By: Mandy

Mandy — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:16:40 +0000

Good points. We have cut back to only eating out once per weekend to help with this kind of issue. And we usually have breakfast or brunch out, which is typically less calories than dinner. Weekends are a good time to plan/prepare several meals for the upcoming week too so you won’t be impulsive or eat a lot of processed/packaged foods. I’m learning a lot about making ahead of time, freezing and popping things in the microwave for later.

I do like to bake a treat on the weekends though, but lately I’m opting for lighter desserts, like the diet soda cake, a weight watchers recipe. Just add 10 oz of diet soda to a cake mix; bake like normal; then add some fat-free cool-whip topping. Still very tasty but way less fat and caloric intake. We can still have our sweet stuff. We just have to be smarter about it these days. I’m trying to drink more water when that first hunger crave occurs. So far, it’s helping. Hopefully by spring, I’ll see/feel a real difference in my efforts.

Oh one more thing, I read an article after Halloween that experts and dentists recommend just binge eating all that Halloween candy in one or two days instead of dragging it out over weeks. They say it’s better for your teeth and better for you body to just do it and get it over with. So I think the point is, if you screw up one or two days for the holidays, who cares!? Just pick back up with your healthy ways when it’s over and move on.

By: AnnQ

AnnQ — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:47:01 +0000

BachelorGirl – Agreed! They had an interesting point – Weekends do more diet damage than Holidays “because there are more weekends than Holidays”, which is something that makes perfect sense (that I hadn’t thought of in quite that way before).