So for my last post in this little impromptu diet writing marathon that somehow manifested itself this week, I thought we’d look to the weekend and consider some of the pros and cons that I personally experience in my quest to lose weight…
For starters, I think that the biggest pro that comes to mind for me is that typically I’m able to skip a meal when I’m just going to be at home all day … namely due to sleeping in and getting up late … but regardless, one less meal is one less meal! Counting calories is easy when I’ve only got two meals (plus snacks) to spread them out across, and even if I splurge on one of them, as I’m expecting to do this weekend, in fact, it’s still easy enough to make my other meal real light to help compensate.
Now that said, all of that is true as long as I have the right kinds of food around the house! If we’re plentiful in the low-cal and fruits and vegetables arenas, then we’re golden, but if the kinds of food that I’m supposed to be eating are lacking, well, let’s just say that accidents happen and occasionally I’ve been known to go through an entire box of granola bars or more than one ice cream bars simply because they were there and I was hungry in a moment of weakness!
I guess you could say that there are both pros and cons to a weekend spent at home. Luckily, I’d like to think that overall I’ve had more of the first scenario than the second scenario to contend with lately and my weekends have actually been fairly instrumental in helping me make progress, but at the same time it’s just important not to get too complacent because there’s a dark side to my beloved weekends all the same…