Weekend Over-eating

Hey girls,

So I've been noticing that most of us end up over-eating on the weekends. It is hard to control our tongue when we do so well during the week, only to ruin it in the weekend.

While it is okay to not maintain your weekday diet on Saturdays and Sundays, especially for those of us who have an active social life, here's what I do to control my food in-take.

It's called Portion Control.

I don't like offending my hosts when I go to their house to eat. Not everyone I know is calorie conscious or even cares about loosing weight. It really disappoints me when they make food loaded with ghee and try and finish everything the same night, without realizing they are walking on the road to disaster. Many of them even laugh at me for being so careful about what I eat. It does make me angry that my goal to lose weight and be fit is taken as a joke. Simply because other's don't have the will power to control their cravings.

Portion control involves food sampling. You eat everything on the menu, but only eat limited quantities.

Let's say that the menu contains a 5 course South Indian meal, from payasam (kheer) to thayir saadham.(dahi chaval)

Here's what I do:

1 vadai (and if I can, I'll even split that with my hubby)
half a cup of rice (which I split 50/50 between sambhar and rasam)
half a cup of thayir saadham.

I keep an eye out for anything healthy. Like a salad or a raita.

If there's pizza at the party, I'll have ONLY ONE slice of it and fill myself with juice. No diet coke or diet pepsi. Sodas are the worst enemy for those of us trying to lose weight.

If there's naan and chicken curry, I'll have ONLY the CHICKEN. Keep the gravy out since that has most of the oils. And my naan will be a plain naan. No ghee.

If there are drinks(alcohol), I prefer to carry my own. The only drink I'd go for then is a vodka soda with lemon (the least alcoholic calories ;-) )

The goal here is to control and eat till you are satisfied. NOT TO BINGE. If there's chocolate coated strawberries, just ONE piece.

Remember the eat slowly. The slower you eat, the lesser you eat.

Remember, you didn't workout hard all week, only to PIG OUT on the weekend and then start the whole process the next week again.

We are human beings, not animals that can't control ourselves

Hope this helps. It helped me for sure!

 

I know how you feel. I find it tough to resist dessert too. But the goal here is to do portion control. So if you end up eating a slice of chocolate cake, split it with somebody. A plate of gulab jamun, split it with somebody. That way, you not only get to taste it, but it doesn't go straight to your hips

I leave out the appetizers completely. Those are the worst. Because when you eat appetizers, you can't eat anything else. And then your friends will try and shove something more down your throat and if you don't eat it, they'll get offended.

So pick wisely!!

 

How did people do this weekend with the diet?