Weekends kill me.

I do pretty well over the week.  I had even lost two pounds last week, though I'm not sure that's not just normal fluctuation.  Then the weekend comes.

Date night.  We go to a mexican restaurant and play keno and sit at the bar. So.  Alcohol.  Mexican food.  That's pretty disatrous right there.  But it's our favorite spot.  We are known there, the bartender has drinks going for us as soon as she sees us come in the door.  And it's something we both enjoy together which makes the "date" part of date night a success.  I'm not sure how to fix this one.  I don't want to feel deprived on my night with my man.  That's a sure fire way to dampen the mood.  I'll have to think about this one.

The next problem with weekends is children.  Our kids come home from college and both hubby and I feel the need to feed them - lol.  One lives on campus food all week and the other lives in an apartment and cooks her own food, which means she doesn't eat much all week, either.  So I feel the need to mother them when they come home.  Hubby feels the need as well.  He's the breakfast cook, so he makes these feasts for them, which they love.  Problem is, I love them too.  This morning he will be making pork chops and gravy for breakfast.  Another problem with children on the weekends is my third daughter is pretty good cook herself.  And she loves to make treats.  She's probably made four batches of cookies over the last two weekends.  I don't want to take her cooking from her - it's a hobby that she loves to do.  But I can't manage to NOT eat the dern cookies!   I'll have to think about this one too. 

Another weekend issue is relatives.  This weekend we will be going to celebrate my mother-in-law's birthday.  It will be good times, but it will also be good food.  It's going to be a fish fry with homemade hushpuppies and homemade french fries along with the fried fish.  Wait.  Fish is good for me, isn't it?  Just kidding.  Fried fish isn't.  Luckily, these things don't happen every weekend.

I'm sure I can figure out a way to eat better on the weekends.  Or at least less.  Maybe I'll survive weekends if I can just eat LESS.  That way I can still enjoy some and not feel deprived (thereby leading to an opposite binge) but also not totally self destruct.

One way to deal with this may be to enlist their help.  There is a mission on that in the 52 Weight Loss Missions, but I haven't gotten to that one yet.  I'll keep doing the missions and see where it takes me. I'll be curious to see what type of help it suggests.  Because it's hard enough for people to live their own lives without having to jump in and help me with mine!

The one good thing I do on weekends is that I still ride my bike.  It's a constant, so I know that helps.

I took my "before" pictures yesterday.  It's another ipad app that allows you to take four pictures - front, back and both sides.  It stores them with the date and whatever notes you want to make as well as your weight that day.  Then, later, you take four more pictures and the app allows you to compare them side-by-side. 

It's amazing the tools that are out there these days.  Two ipad apps, reddit, blogs.  With all this help out there, it seems like all of us should succeed.

Of course nothing takes the place of motivation.  You've got to be in the right place in your mind to be able to do this, even with the tools available these days.

 

That's pretty powerful.  Kind of like the one where sweat is your fat melting.  I love that one. 



This one is important.  Because even though I'm feeling a bit defeated by my weekends, there is always tomorrow.  I can do this.  I can keep doing this.  I can not allow myself to be defeated by my lack of self control.  I can find a way to work around my obstacles and continue on my road to success!  I can DO this!!!