Week-ends can be stubbling blocks to weight loss

What happens to you at the week ends? Routines and healthy eating habits go out of the window. You turn into a snacking eating machine?

Typical things that happen at week- ends  Saturday morning get up later than usual and skip breakfast. Go shopping staving, shopping trolley gets filled with unhealthy snacks and those must have “week-end treats”. Chocolate to keep you going, some crisps (chips), tea and cookies.

Saturday night go out or have friends around or go to their house for a take-away, not eaten properly all day – devour starter, main course and a big fat dessert? It wouldn’t be the week-end without a few drinks too.

Down the pub before sunday lunch for few drinks, the crisps (chips) and the peanuts are so inviting, again not had breakfast. Home for large Sunday lunch, Sunday evening stay home watching TV, impossible without snacking the night away.

Now feelings of quilt set in the thought of Monday morning looms and once again its back to week-day dieting, back to being hungry all the time. A lot of women have got themselves into this trap. Stuffed or starving. It is normal for people to think about eating a little more and maybe having a drink or two. For some women it has been revealed they eat about 500 calories a day on week-days, and 3,500 calories on week-end days!!

If you take the total calories and divided by 7 it would work out at below the daily calorie intake of a normal person’s eating habits. However, this boom and bust way of eating, is preventing people from losing weight. The problem also shows in all the research of people eating this way, they choose unhealthy foods.