It's Friday and I'm not sure I won't binge again...

So I am very good Monday - Thursday, logging a 400 - 750 deficit each day.

Then it's the weekend... and I totally lose control, often completely negating my weekday deficit. Because of this I only lose a max of 0.5 pounds/week, painfully slow. As you can imagine, it kills my motivation.

My problem is BOOZE. I have a few glasses of wine with dinner and completely fall off the wagon. I want to eat and eat... and then eat dessert... drink another glass of wine... and then eat a little more dessert.

It's like this other person comes out and wants to seek comfort in food. Wants to eat a lot without fear of consequences. It's like an escape for just a few hours, but then the next day the self-loathing kicks in and I am miserable.

Here are my stats: 5'9" 143 pounds. I am trying to get back down to 136, what I weighed last summer. Right now all my summer clothes are way too tight.

I eat at least 1500 on the days I work out, I have never been able to go hungry.

Does anyone have any advice on how to not fall off the wagon on weekends? Part of the problem is that if I start to binge on Friday I cannot stop until Monday.

well the main obvious thing I see is ..well ...if wine is the issue...stop drinking it...

I never reply to these things but...YOU SOUND JUST LIKE ME!  The thing is, I totally manage to blow 4 whole "good" days over the weekend.  All of my hard work is just so that I can eat on weekends!  Anyway, the only suggestion I have is maybe try not to have the alcohol and you won't totally lose control of your judgement.  When I have my glasses of wine and then start eating like crazy, I tell myself that I know what I'm doing, BUT, the next day, I just can't believe how out of control my binging was.  I'm convinced that if I have ONE "good" weekend, maybe two in a row, I will reach my goals.  I'm just addicted to food!  Good luck!

Thank you for replying, abednorz! We are the same -- I also often blow 4 days's of deficit in one weekend... I tried reaching a 3500 deficit over those four days, but it was a bit too extreme and I felt like eating even more on Sat/Sunday. I swear, sometimes I think a part of me is trying to sabotage myself.

It's hard for me not to have wine with dinner, it's such a part of me and my husband's life. I abstain Monday - Thursday, but we go out for dinner on the weekends (we are hard-core foodies) and it's a big part of enjoying what we love.

I need to get over the all-or-nothing mentality, too.

I'm with you on the bingeing. Today I had a big breakthrough in that I stopped myself when I started my weekly Friday binge (I still made it through a bag of chips and two candy bars, but there were several candy bars left that I didn't eat) and talked with my husband when he got home from work. Together we threw the rest of the food away that I was planning to inhale and had a good talk about it. I also logged it and my previous binges on CC, which made me feel like it wasn't my shameful secret anymore. There's no magic pill to not over-eating and bingeing. I just tell myself that even if I over-eat or binge, I should still work out, and there are lots of other ways to be healthy-drinking water, exercising, lifting weights, etc. Since joining CC, I have been able to see different trends over the past month, and so I know that a mess up here and there isn't going to deter me in the long run. Sorry to talk about myself in this whole post, but I hope it helps you or someone else.

I have the same problem! I LOVE relaxing with a couple glasses of nice red wine and a great meal out, I tell myself that i've worked so hard all week and I deserve the little splurge. However, as soon as I get home from the restaurant I go straight to the cupboard and even though I need to get a step stool from the garage to reach the bad-for-me foods I still do it!

What I discovered is that on the weekends I stay up later so there is a much longer time-frame where I have to behave myself after dinner. So I decided to make my "night out" on Wednesday instead and it worked! By the time I got home from dinner on Wed it was already 10pm, and I go to bed around 11 on weeknights so it was too late for a binge....and because I feel like I just had a night out the weekend is here and i'm eating well because it feels too soon to have another splurge night out.

I hope this helps!

I can't wait til' next Wednesday...mmmmmmm wine :)

I do the EXACT same thing, only booze isn't really my issue. I actually drink booze every day during the week, and then I don't drink during the weekend for some reason. During the week, I do great with logging my calories and staying around the amount I'm supposed to consume to lose weight. Then on the weekends, I turn into this ravenous beast and can't seem to eat enough food, and then I feel like a total jerk on Mondays. I don't understand what my problem is!!! I even have the motivation to go to the gym during the weekend, yet I can't manage to eat like a sane person. It's so aggravating!

I don't even really have any advice for you, because I apparently can't seem to combat the problem myself. I just wanted to tell you I completely sympathize. I've tried keeping myself busy, I've tried waiting until the weekend is over to go grocery shopping, and somehow, a neverending amount of food still finds its way into my face. It's really frustrating to me that I keep sabotaging my progress, and I honestly don't know WHY I do it. All I want is to get through ONE weekend without eating everything in sight. If I can make it through a weekend, at least I'll know that I have the ability to do it. *sigh*

Wow, your stats are basically the same as mine. I'm  ft 9 and 140.5, aiming for 130 at the moment. I do the same weekend thing, I'm at university and I go home to my parents house which is always full of junk. I have something to drink and then I just think "F- it, I've started so I might as well keep going.." It's a killer. I also understand the slow weightloss. I think if your BMI is already in the "healhty" range it is more difficult to loose weight as your Metabolic base rate is dependant on your BMI.

Thanks so much for your replies. I binged again this weekend and am so depressed about it. I am back up to 145 pounds, my goal is 136-137. I made it down to 139 in March but ate it all back with these insane weekend binges.

I am really feeling down about my body and it doesn't feel heathy. I could not sleep at all last night becuase I felt fat! Every position I lay in seemed to emphasize my belly, butt, thighs.

My logical mind knows I am not overweight - I am 5'9" and 145. But I feel enormous and ugly. It is maddening. I used to be happy at this weight, but then I got sick last year and lost a bunch of weight. I could see my ribs and kind of liked it.  Now I am healthy again but gained weight back and feel so miserable about it.

I really do not like how bad I feel about my body and my binging these days.