Many of us want to lose weight. Dieting is big business and it seems that so many people are willing to do virtually anything if it mean that we drop a few pounds. So, many of us turn to dieting systems in the hope that they will see us shedding weight. And these systems may work for a little while but ultimately it may be the case that they fail at the weekend. This is because we tend to find ourselves slipping into more relaxed habits at the weekend and that can make us put the weight back on that we worked so hard all week to lose. So we’ve compiled a list of some of the worst weekend weight loss mistakes that can see you piling back on that weight that you have lost.
Drinking alcohol
Many of us love to drink alcohol on the weekend. For many it is part of a weekly ritual, for others it is simply a way of relaxing and letting off steam at the end of a long working week. You might think that there is nothing wrong with that, but the trouble is that drinking alcohol comes with a number of problems attached to it. Of course we all know that alcohol is just empty calories and that many alcoholic drinks are surprisingly high in calories.
So if you go out and have a heavy night drinking you’re loading up on wasted calories that serve no purpose aside from their ability to spoil your diet. But there is another problem too, because it’s not just the calories that you accumulate from the alcohol but also that alcohol often makes you more like to want to pick up some late night snacks, whether that is in the form of crisps or nuts in the pub, or perhaps even a kebab or burger afterwards.
Eating at the cinema
If you’re like many people then you may like to watch a film at the weekend – everyone enjoys going to the cinema every once in a while. But there are issues going to the cinema too. Especially the fact that many people love to chow down when they are watching a film, and cinema lobbies are not exactly notorious for their range of healthy goods on offer. This means that you will likely be eating something along the lines of popcorn and a sugary drink. Clearly these are very bad for you and if you want to keep up your diet through the weekend, you can’t be buying these kind of snacks to go into the movie with.
Shopping on an empty stomach
The weekend is a popular time to go shopping, mainly because we’ve got enough free time to go around the shops and buy the things that we need for the coming week. But the scourge of shopping is the empty stomach. It’s well known that if we go shopping when we are hungry we are more likely to make purchasing decisions that include unhealthy foods and things that we feel like we want to eat right then – this usually includes crisps, chocolate and other foods that are bad for us. The knock on effect is that we then have these foods in our homes that we wouldn’t usually buy. That puts you in the place of being very tempted all the time by the junk food sitting in your cupboard. Do yourself a favour and don’t shop on an empty stomach – all it will do is fill your shelves with unhealthy foods that you wouldn’t normally eat.