Happy mother’s day!
No gym yet today. I did walk for half an hour last night, and didn’t really eat garbage. Weekends are tough, and I’m learning how to limit the negative impact of it.
I WILL be eating poorly tonight – it’s mother’s day. We’re having, among other things, triffle. Again, not beating myself up about it, but not dismissing it either.
The other thing is this. Last night I spent some time doing something non-work related, and non-fitness related: this project. It’s a viewer for del.icio.us sites. My latest post is a breakdown of the project.
Why is it that you’ve been experiencing some challenge when it comes to the weekend?
I’m not sure. I think part of it is the freedom of time. I’m not sitting at a desk with a clock in front of me.
Another part is possibly feeling like I have earned a respite from the routine. Not sure.
Any advice?
Are you saying that having free time makes you eat, because your mind’s not occupied?
I thought the routine earned you abs, not respite? :)
Weekends are definitely harder to maintain any sort of a fitness plan. I think its just psychological; the week’s over, you’ve worked a crappy job for a week and you have earned a reward. You just get that Friday night feeling and it incredibly hard to resist the temptation of a huge pizza or a few cold beers!
What I used to do was to actually accept this and plan around it. Saturday was my free day when I could eat pizza if I wanted, have apple pie with cream after a chicken breast dinner, basically no food was off limits. By setting a day aside like this it allowed me to happily go the rest of the week eating clean knowing I can have whatever it was I felt like on a Saturday. It also meant I didn’t feel really bad after eating junk food because I knew it was a scheduled pig out, not just me giving in to temptation.
The two worries you might have with this are that the extra calories are going to cause trouble. Well, there are two counter arguments to this.
1) You seem to be finding moments of weakness when you eat junk food now anyway, so at least this way you wont feel so bad after.
2) There is a school of thought that having a few high calories days can help boost your metabolism, so in the long run might actually be beneficial!