Weekend Binge! Does anyone feel my pain?

So this past week I finally got back on track and started moving in the right direction after falling off the wagon last week.  Friday rolls around and what happens? BINGE....that continued into today.  As is typical for me, carb-loaded sweets.  Cookies, chocolate, belgian waffle, french toast, mac n cheese, cereal...ALL between yesterday and today....can anyone else relate?

Uh-Huh. *Nods miserably*

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yup... I had a white chocolate mocha, sushi (but with deep fried shrimp and stuff), and lots of chocolate :( I didn't even bother to track it. I plan on doing better today...

Don't worry it happens to the best of us. I've been sick and couldn't eat very well for a couple days so at first sign of hunger i down like 5 pieces of pizza lol . So let it slide and start new but when it does happen just exercise it might not take all the calories off that you ate but atleast you burned some :)

Yup, i'll sit in front of the box with a new box of cereal and before i know it half the box has gone! If i want chocolate i compromise and have a low cal hot chocolate, seems to be working actually. I only really binge when i'm bored, so i'm trying to find more things to do... easier said than done!!

Weekends are a love/hate relationship. I love not having to get up early to go to work, but hate having the extra time to keep wondering into the kitchen to grab all the foods that I should not be grazing on.

I feel your pain, I really do!

You're not alone...though I'd planned to go to the gym last night after a large work lunch, I got home to find that my roomie was making tacos and had invited friends over.  So...3 tacos, 1 margarita, 1 shot of tequila, 1 beer, 1 flan and a moderate amount of chips and guacamole later...yeah, I'll be undoing this damage for a WHILE!  Ouch!

Yup, me too... it really sucks and I feel guilty for DAYS afterwards but to err is human and if we were all perfect with our diets we'd be control freaks with everything else in our lives and who wants that?

Yep...I'm there with ya.  I just did the infamous "I worked out today" routine so of course that entitles me to gorge on cookies! Ok, so it was only 8 Oreos...but that's more calories than I burned today.

* hanging my head low* i know the feeling i am begining to hate weekends they are so hard to stay on track. my down fall is 5 tim hortons decaf single cream yummy!!!!! *sigh* 

I'm usually pretty good on the weekends, mainly because there's nothing but healthy foods in the kitchen and I go to the gym which gives me motivation not to ruin my exercise by snacking...

However!

Yesterday I went to my parents' house (about 2 hours drive) and my mum made these beuatiful pancakes! I had about six of them and I dread how many calories that amounted up to...

But as I was driving home last night I had to stop at a supermarket and use their toilets... I had a bad case of the runs! :'(

That'll teach me to scoff my face again, haha.

I have the same problem...but I always find it happens more often when I haven't visited the gym ...or the food is around.  And I live at home with my parents right now so I cannot control the food that comes in the house.  It is torture for me on weekends because there is sooo much junk food around.  Any suggestions to how to deal with this till I move out?

emuie:

SO TRUE! SO HARD!

Hobbies with commitments, my friend. I've got a ton of them. I volunteer to sew and cook for various organizations. (Something I learned from my mom!) Volunteers are needed everywhere, I've found. The more stuff I get involved in, the less I eat! (And when I make cookies for the local drama club, I reward myself by leaving one at home for after I drop them off!) It keeps you out of the house, too, and away from the fridge!

Good luck!

The last two days were awfull! I ate 1800 cals each day which is my maintenance amount...and I'm still trying to lose weigh. And don't think that those 1800 cals came from some healthy food...NOOOO: candies, mints, home made cookies and more junk staff. I really should be proud of myself. Although it helps seing I'm not the only one.... Tomorrow I'll be a good girl, I promise!

i was hoping last night was a dream, we had a movie night with too many fixin's, chips,salsa, chili cheese dip, cheese sticks, pickles, popcorn, and sodas!!!! AND that was on top of the homemade bbq chicken pizza we had for lunch!

Well... I am in the middle of studying for mid terms so, to lighten the burden I decided to have a few drinks Friday night.  I think it was the bean dip, but something I ate was bad and Saturday I ended up with this strange combination of feeling ill and wanting to eat heavy carbs or milky foods, and I just couldn't keep them away.  I had at least: Five peices of toast with cheese, three homemade lowfat bannana buiscuits w PB, Two Light Hot Chocolates, Two more peices of toast with cheese, a bowl of curried bulgur w/ melted cheese and  salsa and a bowl of popcorn.  I still feel the same sick but wildly hungry today. 

So ya I know what you mean.  So far I have limited myself to a cup of trailmix (so I could make the eating part last longer) but Im still famished.

Right there with ya.

In the past two days I'm pretty sure I've eaten at least an entire small box of raisin bran (at least 1900 cals), 2 pb&j sandwiches, 2 squares of choc cake, cocoa puffs, honey nut cheerios, rice krispies treat, 2 butterfinger crisps..and this is all outside of my normal meals....

I really am amazed that still relatively small in size...must be all that good work during the week.  Now if only I could actually start behaving and loose the weight!

I added grahram crackers and Reduced Fat Nilla wafers to have something with my tea and use the crushed grahram to put in my Yoplait lemon creame light Fat Free Yogurt.  I told myself if I binge it will only be with healthy foods. Well yesterday I didn't do so good I had small amount of dried fruit, nilla wafer, the graham crackers  have been gone I didn't eat them all it once.  My point is that those two things the Nilla wafers, small amount of dried fruit, and the Graham Crackers made me so hungry and why because of the sugar content.  The blood sugar shoots up and what goes up must come down and when it comes down more cravings for sugar.  I did go over my calories a couple days in a row because I kept trying to satisfy the craving and it usually involved eating a couple Balance Bar, two containers of yogurt and to many calories.  So I gave the rest of the cookies away and I'm not buying anymore Graham crackers they aren't high in calories but high in sugar as is cereal. I did look at why I wanted the sugar, habit for one and boredom.  Its raining out good time to eat more.  WRONG! If I am going to have a life change this time I am going to have to be hard on myself thin people don't gain weight bingeing because what they call bingeing isn't in my definition of bingeing.  I have a friend that is thin and she takes care of herself, food isn't used for comfort.  I don't know you guys this isn't easy that's for sure.  I think the food is harder than alcohol and cigarettes both of which I don't do anymore.  I know there are somethings I am just not going to be able to eat anymore that's all there is to it I either accept it and make this life change or continue to yo-yo the rest of my life. 

I have a cat story for yeah.  I had a cat and she loved Deli Cat I think it was anyway I was told not to give it to her by my thin animal loving friend because it gives them a false appetite and they keep eating. Alexis kept eating and what did I get a fat cat. Dog story I had a dog and his name was Leo well I got him so I would have a reason to take a walk.  Well I didn't take a walk with the dog and the dog got fat.  I don't know where I was going with this my Latte kicked in. lol   I guess person, cat, dog if I put high calorie, high sugar, lots of anything I am going to wear it.

Today Is the Start of a New Week I've lost 8.6lbs since January 8, when I started.  8.6lbs was what my first born weighed to think of that as fat yuck. I hope everybody has a good week one day at a time.

HUG, We can do this TOGETHER

marilynlg

wannastayfit:

Thanks for the advice.  I will definitely consider it.  You are my Inspiration!

Marilynlg and all: WE CAN DO IT! * GROUP HUG

Thanks everyone for your insight to this weekend problem. I guess we all need hug. and the reassurance that we can do it. I ate 3000 cal on saturday and I did not quite on sunday. But I am not going to feel quilty I am going to shake it off and continue today.

I am also guilty. I woke up at 2am last night and went on an all out 1,000 calorie carb binge. I felt so ashamed but I'm glad that there are other people with me!