How To Prevent the Weekends From Sabotaging Your Weight Loss Goals

Discover three key strategies to stay on track and still enjoy yourself

Sean Barker, CPT, PN2
In Fitness And In Health
6 min readMay 16, 2024

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If you struggle with maintaining your diet and exercise habits during the weekend, rest assured that you’re not alone.

Many people progress on their goals during the week but regress on the weekend, taking one step forward and two steps back.

It's important to remember that Saturdays and Sundays make up almost 30% of your week’s timeline. Losing focus on those days can greatly slow your progress when trying to lose weight and get in shape.

Therefore, it's essential to find ways to maintain your healthy habits, even on weekends, to ensure sustainable progress. While balance is important, and nobody needs to be perfect to achieve results, the weekend doesn’t have to throw you off track completely.

If the weekend has become your weak end of consistency and has been sabotaging your health and fitness goals, here are three ways you can use Saturday and Sunday to amp up your results while enjoying a little downtime.

1. Manage eating out mindfully

By planning ahead and being more mindful, you can enjoy eating out without sabotaging your weight loss…

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Sean Barker, CPT, PN2
In Fitness And In Health

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