Has anybody tried the following: Keep to a fairly strict diet during the week but go for the gusto (booze, carbs, sweets, etc.) on Saturday/Sunday? What's been the result?
Has anybody tried the following: Keep to a fairly strict diet during the week but go for the gusto (booze, carbs, sweets, etc.) on Saturday/Sunday? What's been the result?
haha sounds exactly like how i eat.
monday-friday i go to the gym every day, and my diet generally consists of wholegrain toast & a slimfast shake for breakfast, a lite healthy lunch, and steamed vegetables with grilled chicken or steak, or a vegetable & chicken stir-fry, or a salad, for dinner.
saturday and sunday it's all pizza and pasta and burgers and fries.
probably not the best way to do it, but as long as the bad doesn't outweigh the good, i still seem to lose weight.
That's pretty much what I do. Works for me. Although on the weekends when I eat I usually eat a big meal that fills me up and don't eat much else for the day.
Treating yourself once on weekends might be ok, but totally gorging yourself all weekend wil completly undo all you've done during the week.
Lets say you follow a srtict diet/exercize program all week, creatiing a calorie deficit of 1000 calories per day. That's eating 500 less calories, ad exercising off 500. That's a 5,000 calorie deficit you've created by Friday, enough to lose a little over 1lb. ( 3500 calories in a pound)
Now on Sat. and Sun, instead f eating 500 less calories, you splurge on dinner and eat 500 more calories, on both days. Now you've added 1,000 calories. so now your deficit is only 4,000 calories for the week. But you also slack on exercising, and instead of working off 500 for both days, you only work off 250 for both days, totaling 500 calories for the weekend Now your deficit is 3500 calories total. Enough to lose exactly 1 lb a week.
But...if you stick to your diet and exercise for the weekend as well, you double yoru calorie deficit, and now have a 7,000 deficit, enough to lose 2lbs per week.
By just sticking to the program for 2 more days, you double your weight loss.
So it would seem smart to me to just stick with it all week, although if it's not possible, and you must splurge, you can still lose weight, although at a slower rate. 1 lb. a week is still a healthy weight loss.
There are healthier ays to splurge tho. If you know you wanna splurge for dinner, have a light breakfast and lunch to sort of "save" thoes calories.
Or work out an extra 15 minutes.
Or create a healthier alternative. I LOVE fettuchini alfredo. It's soo fatening, but with a few modifications, I can create a recipe that taste good, yet saves hundreds of calories. I feel like I'm splurging, but it's still healthier.
Bottom line is if you "go for the gusto" and completly crash your diet for weekends, you will negate all yoru hard work during the week, so moderation is still important.
I found that I'm the same (angelic on the weekdays, evil twin on the weekends). However over the last month I started just eating half of whatever was on my plate, but still having whatever I felt like, and cutting back to 2 alcoholic drinks total over both days. That saved me a ton of calories.
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not quite accurate. you will start NOT losing weight if you don't 'splurge' on calories because your metabolism will adjust to the starvation-level calorie count. this is part of why many fat people cannot lose weight after multiple diets-- they spent weeks at 1000 calories per day and their body came to see that amount of calories as 'normal', so eating even a little more than that amount increased weight post-diet.
the overall best way to steadily lose weight is to eat reduced calorie for 4-6 days in a row and then eat 1 day of higher calories. and always mix up which day is the 'high-calorie' day. then your body never gets a chance to mistake the diet-calories for a 'normal' amount and you can gradually work your way back up to a higher calorie diet WITHOUT weight gain.
Oh, you mis understood me slightly..I didn't say eat 1,000 calories a day. I didn't say anything about "starvation level calorie count"
I said create a calorie deficit of 1,000 calories a day by eating 500 less and exercizing off 500 more.
If you normally eat 3,000 calories per day and eat 500 less, that's still 2500 calories a day your consuming. No where near starvation level.
And sure, you may be right about mixing it up...but higher calorie days means 250 more calories, not completly splurging and binging on booze, sugar and fat. That will not work.
Eating a higher calorie day means adding in an extra snack, or a treat. Going for the small ice creame cone. A splurge day does nto mean pancakes and bacon for breakfast, Mc Donalds for lunch, fettuchini alfredo for dinner followed by brownies and chips as snacks, then going out drinking all night. That kind of day would completly undo all weeks good effort.
That was my point... a small splurge is ok..but binging on weekends will not work.
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