Question about Counting calories and weekends.

Have any of you seen results, if you relaxed your calorie intake by 200-300 calories on the weekends? It seems fairly easy for me to keep well within my daily intake of 1400 calories on week days when I am eating at home. The problem is on weekends it's harder (as I found out this weekend). Last week was my first week on CC, I started at 169 lbs, and today I weighed in at 167. So I lost two lbs in a week, which seems to be the recommended healthy amount. 

I'm not talking about binging on the weekends, just having a little room to have an extra slice of pizza or an alcoholic drink etc. 

What do you all think?

i think it's ok, but that could be because that's how i do it. LOL

there's a lot of talk about zig-zaging your "diet" and while my weekends are not intentional zigs or zags that's how i think about it.

i also find it relieves a certain amount of mental stress, which many hard core calorie counters seem to have issues with. and who needs more stress anyway!

all that being said i still make an effort to eat relatively healthy food, i just don't stress about being 200-300 over.

Satyrswoman, are you still seeing results?

Actually I've been allowing myself extra calories on the weekend for a while now and I'm still losing weight at the same rate. In fact, I don't actually count my calories on Saturday or Sunday at ALL, but I do tell myself to use the visual cues for portion control, and to be reasonable. I think it's perfectly okay to relax your diet for a day, as long as you're really consistent in the rest of the week and have a system that works. Actually, I think having my two "cheat days" has kept me from bingeing which used to be a daily occurence.

I don't count calories on Friday and pretty much eat and drink what I want.  On Saturday I count calories but allow myself to have pretty much whatever I want within reason, of course, and still try to eat healthy.  Sunday through Thursday I'm a strict calorie counter.  I also work out 6 days a week.  I'm losing at about 1-1/4 lbs a week and am down 35 pounds in 5 months.  I guess I'd be losing it faster if I were stricter on Friday and Saturday, but I think I'm doing ok and I'm not getting frustrated like I did on previous attempts to lose weight.  It's also a big help that people are commenting on how good I look.

I'm just worried that I might not see results as fast as I maybe want. I want to be thin again pretty bad, but I also don't want to break down and binge. I think i've found a happy medium with this website, and am crossing my fingers it works. 

Besides, being thin I also want to be healthy. In the beginning of the summer I discovered that I had slightly high cholesterol, and well I am 21, 20 at the time the doctors told me. I worked out pretty hard all throughout the summer, I was in the gym 4 times a week etc., but did not watch what I ate (thinking it would be fine as long as I exercized). But when I went for another check up at the end of the summer, my numbers had definitely improved, but my cholesterol was higher :/. So I got pretty discouraged. 

I've been relaxed about my weekend calorie counting from the start and have been steadily loosing weight the whole time. While I log everything I eat/drink on the weekends, I don't "count" it like I would during the week. It basically just keeps me from going completely overboard, while still enjoying a few treats.

I don't see the problem as long as you're not going TOO overboard - and maybe you could try to work out a little extra on the weekends to combat the extra intake a little? Just make sure that you remember that any calories you eat "extra" still count toward your overall weight loss goal. If you've eaten a 2500-calorie defecit through the rest of the week, then nosh down 2500 extra calories on  your cheat days, you won't lose weight.

Original Post by madeba:

Satyrswoman, are you still seeing results?

 well....

i was until this past week. apparently school fun raisers aren't just for raising $ anymore, they also raised my calorie intake.

my oldest sold cookie dough this year and boy is it yummy! but that being said i didn't gain any, just maintained. so i'm not going to complain to much. LOL

i've using this strategy from the beginning, mid June, and have lost 20 pounds, which is a little less than a pound a week, but considering i do NO exercise, again I say i'll not complain.

I continue to read about "eat more and you will change your metabolism and the weight comes off".  I think I might be the odd one.  If I eat less, exercise moderately, I lose at least a little.  If I eat more , exercise moderately, I gain. It is simple for me but I envy those of you who eat more and lose! 

Barbara

I Think I'll just try and stick to 1400 calories per day for now, maybe I can do that when I loose enough weight to maintain.