Weekend Pigout Ruins Entire Week?

Question- if I pig out (i normally eat 1400-1500) and eat 2500 cals on the weekend (Both Friday and Saturday) does this ruin my entire week?

Whats the impact of this? I do it most weekends, this is why I ask. Can I do something to compensate for this, plan for this somehow? My professional life and personal life depends on going out, eating, drinking, schmoozing....

I am totally with you.  I do great all week long then comes Friday night, Saturday and Sunday.  I ruin the whole week in 2.5 days and have to start over on Monday.  I weigh on Friday and get excited about my loss and totally lose it the next two days.

I think I am slowly doing a little better each weekend.  I have seen the difference on the scale during the week and I am trying to be more careful on the weekend but it is still not great.  If you are like me it's not that I eat too much but I also eat crap food the whole time. 

If you find the answer to this-I really need to know too.  Good Luck to you!!

yeah, I think you can totally blow it that way if you are eating back whatever deficit you have created for the week. If you have a 500 cal deficit for 4 days, that's only 2000 calories, which I can easily eat back over 3 days. I know because I have done it. It sucks, but it happens. It's so hard to stay on track on the weekends, especially when you have a demanding social life. I deal with it too. But! I would say that if you let yourself lax for ONE day instead of 3, you will definitely still lose. that is what I am trying to stick to. Good Luck!!

I've struggled with this! Hard but I beat it. I allow myself to splurge on the weekends ONLY AFTER I've done an extra workout. I do a light but long workout to combate the extra calories.

It hasn't failed me yet! Good luck!

Maybe you can undo it all in 3 days, but in one...nope. I have one "pig out" day every week, like last Sunday. I planned I could eat my maintenance level of calories (about 1800), but managed only 1610. I was supposed have no defecit, but as I had more energy, I also remained more active, so I burned WAY more than 2100 that day! O.O

Pretty cool, eating all I wanted to and have a 430 defecit for the day. Can't wait for next weekend! (And not to mention, doing these pig outs has HELPED my weight loss!)

im usually the opposite, if everyday was the weekend i'd be so much better at losing weight because with school i usually eat out a lot :(

I usually seem to have the same problem and I think that the most important thing is to make sure that you are active and burning calories.  The more you burn, the more you have room for.  But, I'm new at this so I could be wrong.  Hope it works out for you! 

I have the exact same issue! And ive recently cut it to one day. Although I am a binger, therefore one day KILLS it for me. What really helped me was having weigh-in day on monday rather than friday. Because I would see the scale, get so pumped up - and pig out. Another thing, is upping my calories. I was eating around 1200-1300 calories a day, which was WAY to little. So therefore because I restricted myself so much, I would pig out on the weekends

Here are some articles on tips on how to control the weekend.

. http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/3878 77/how_to_stay_on_your_diet_on_weekends.html? cat=51

2. http://www.thedietchannel.com/weekend-diet-pl an

Just believe in yourself, and keep looking at your goals to motivate you!

Good luck!

What I find works is having pretty small meals early in the day (like under 500 cals combined breakfast and lunch) so that it's ok to splurge a bit for dinner.. that way, you can still have like a thousand calories or less and go out to eat and have a good time and what have you (I on the other hand reserve extra cals for alcohol, which isn't a great idea, but if you only splurge on the poison for 2 days isn't that bad... unless you have 15 plus beers like I did saturday. bad idea. I felt horrible for days....)