Weekend Binges

Posted on September 11, 2011 | 7 Comments

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You know how you do totally awesome with working out, eating, and counting calories Monday through Friday, then the weekend happens? Saturday and Sunday are totally out of control and everything that you did over the week just went down the shitter.

Ya, this happens to me. Happen to you?

During the week I’m the perfect ‘student’, I track, I burn, and I cook healthy meals. I follow a schedule and stick to it. I eat my egg whites for breakfast, usually a sandwich for lunch, cook an amazing dinner, and pack a few healthy snacks for work. I do awesome.

Then Saturday hits…everything goes out the window.

Ever since I started this whole journey I gave myself a “free night.” A night where I would eat a dinner consisting of some type of food that I had been craving all week. It would always occur after my afternoon weigh-ins at Weight Watchers. I would eat that one meal and continue with the program the next day.

Well, my weigh-ins then moved to Saturdays and my “free night” moved to a “free weekend.” I eat a meal that I’ve been craving, then maybe some beers, then I get the beer munchies, then there’s more crappy food because I figure I’ve already eaten this crappy, why not continue.

I get in the “ I’ll start on Monday” routine then. And I do start all over again on Monday.

These binges are something that really need to stop. When I binge on the weekends it really undoes everything I’ve worked so hard towards the whole week. But, for some reason I cannot get that through my head.

On Friday nights I begin to think of what all I can eat on Saturday after I weigh-in. Then Saturday comes around and it’s a free for all. I eat without any thought of what’s going in my mouth and really without caring one bit.

Then I step on the scale on Monday (I’m an every day weigher) and soon see that I’m up 3….4…..or even more pounds. Which then brings on the guilt. Luckily I don’t let the guilt consume me and I start tracking and being that A+ student all over again.

It’s really dumb to essentially start at the beginning every Monday. I work my butt off to lose any of that weight I gained from my weekend binge. And when I have my official weigh-in on Saturdays, I get disappointed that the scale didn’t move as much as I hope and the cycle starts all over again.

It’s a vicious cycle needs to stop. I need to get control of these weekend binges before they become weekly binges, every day binges.

So, I’m going to get control because I deserve it. I deserve to be healthy and I deserve to lose the weight. I need to quit beating myself up over these weekend binges because that’s not getting me anywhere. I need to make the change and I’m going to do just that.

No more weekend binges for this girl. When it crosses my mind, I’m going to remind myself how crappy it makes me feel. I’m going to ask B-Fry to help out, to also remind me. Heck, I’ll even send a tweet about it.

I’m going to do whatever it takes.

I deserve this!!

Are you a weekend binger? If so, how do you control the binge?

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  • http://www.stellarpath.net Jeremy Logsdon

    I’ve only recently been able to stop the weekend binges, myself, so by no means do I consider myself cured, but it finally just kind of hit me – this is a waste of time. I know use my 49 weekly points to have a “splurge” meal, and beyond that, I just try to track and not get too far off track. Easier said than done, of course.

  • http://www.alltheweigh.com Kenlie

    This weekend was almost flawless for me, and it’s also completely new for me. For far too long, I’ve looked at weekends as my excuse to eat things with less structure (and sadly, less nutrients) than I do during the week. I’m trying to change day by day, and I know you are too. We both deserve to feel great about ourselves, and we both already know we can do it. ((((((((((hugs)))))))))

  • http://lighterplaneofbeing.wordpress.com Kate

    Maybe move your weigh in day back to where it was? It sounds like that was a good motivator for you.

    I had a bad weekend with binging. I knew that I was doing it and something in me just did not stop. And now I am frustrated with myself. For me it is things that are out of the ordinary. We had a small party on Saturday for my man’s birthday. And there were left overs. And they were there so I ate them. And then I ate whatever I wanted to. And I am worried about next weekend. We are having a larger party on saturday. And there will be food I want to eat and there will be left overs on Sunday. Your post today inspired me to talk with my man about it. I don’t want to do the same thing, so that means doing things differently. I don’t like wasting food but I would rather throw it out or send it home with guests than treat myself like a garbage can. So, my plan so far is to put it out of sight when the party is over, send things home with people, throw things away if they have been sitting out too long. And be honest with myself and my man that this is hard and I don’t know what to do.

    For me, at the moment, there is either total control or no control. I don’t like that but I don’t have a happy medium yet. But I will keep going and I will work on it.

  • IaFarmerswife

    I have a work friend who lives his life being very conscious all week and letting go on weekends, so how does he stay fit? I always suspected that he didn’t really “let go” all that much. I feel I am always working from behind after a weekend. This weekend was a wedding and a family picnic. I was sparing on beer but oh the salads loaded with mayo (I’ll just take a tablespoon, yeah right) and my nemesis – tortilla chips! I could have brought carrot chips to the party to put my salsa on, if I had thought in advance. Have you ever done the drink a water after every beer? I may do that. I also kept myself outside Sunday in the garden, mowing and stuff. If I stayed in the house where the food is, I knew I would continue my binge. The biggest enemy I face is where I feel like I should have a break from my eating structure. Why? I am eating great, nutritious food. Why do I feel like I am depriving myself if I don’t eat the stuff that hurts me?

  • http://www.facebook.com/pamela.a.holmes1 Pam Holmes

    It is harder on the weekends. I find myself TRYING to sleep in later, so when I get up there’s less time in the day to get through and avoid over-eating. How sad is that? Plus the later you sleep on the weekend, I’ve noticed the less you weight when you get on the scae, and I like that very much. But if I was eating so much that I was gaining back all the weight I had worked so har to lose during the week, I would be seriously PI$$ED, cause losing that weight is a lot of work–why waste all that effort?
    I hit my goal on April 15, since then I’ve lost about an additional 15 lbs. (depending on the day, sometimes as much as 17 lbs!), but since that time (as evidenced by my continued loss) I have not once gone on a binge. I have seriously probably never eaten more than 2,000 calories in any given day, and that would have been a rare day, usually it’s around 1500-1600. I just know, if I ever DO let myself go, I will not be able to do like you do, and get right back on the strict wagon on Monday. Once I go–I’m afraid it’s all over, and the 183 pounds that I lost over the last 2 years, will just automatically show back up ON MY BODY like overnight! SO….I just constantly restrict myself. But I do think ahead all day long about what I’m going to eat at the next meal. Like for lunch today, it’s a little tiny homemade runza (ground beef with cabbage in a crescent roll–about 250 cals), a little portion of leftover potato salad (neither of which are low-cal, but the portions are small enuff, that I think I’ll be okay) and a BIG serving of cantaloupe. It’s only 8:40 a.m., and I already can’t wait for lunch!

  • http://stephaniesoebbing.com Stephanie Soebbing

    I’ve started working out first thing in the morning on Saturdays. Working out generally suppresses my appetite so that helps. Plus I don’t feel like blowing my diet after I just burned 700 calories at the gym. I also weigh myself before my workout on Saturdays. That’s motivating as well and helps me stick with my healthy routine.

  • http://mizfitonline.com/2011/09/14/mizfit-training-biceps-triceps-shoulders MizFit

    what worked for so many of my clients as silly and simple as it sounds was a postbinge journal.
    writing about all the bloated heavy (emotional and physical) feelings and, as you said, visiting those in an effort to stave off a binge.

    xo