{"id":73645,"date":"2021-02-25T12:20:33","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T17:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emilyfieldrd.com\/?p=73645"},"modified":"2021-03-03T12:35:06","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T17:35:06","slug":"how-to-prevent-weekend-weight-gain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilyfieldrd.com\/blog\/how-to-prevent-weekend-weight-gain\/","title":{"rendered":"how to prevent weekend weight gain"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The guilt, shame and damage control struggle around weekend overeating is real. \u2063
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But, know that you\u2019re not alone and that a large portion of my audience shares the same struggles.\u2063\u2063 In my experience it boils down to a few factors:\u2063\u2063
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1. Being too rigid with eating habits during the week.<\/strong> Undereating your needs intentionally or unintentionally usually results in rebounding on those habits and overeating on the weekend. Typically, the harder you stretch that rubber band, the harder it will snap back.\u2063 \u2063
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2. Environment change.<\/strong> From a nearly-empty fridge, to running errands all over town, to sleeping over at your S\/O\u2019s place \u2013 you don\u2019t have access to the same foods that you normally do during the week.\u2063\u2063
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3. Outside influence.<\/strong> In general, people, places and plans can all have influence over your food decisions and these variables differ from weekday to weekend.\u2063\u2063
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4. Alcohol consumption.<\/strong> In our culture, alcohol is used as a reward \u2013 we use it to de-stress and unwind. Weekend and alcohol tend to go together and can absolutely drive overeating. Alcohol lowers inhibitions and can make you generally feel more carefree and less disciplined \u2013 suddenly your strict and structured weekday meal plan doesn\u2019t seem to matter much after a couple of drinks.\u2063\u2063
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5. Lack of structure and routine during the day.<\/strong> We wake up later than usual, go to bed later than usual. You might lack time sensitive obligations on the weekend because you prefer things to be fluid.\u2063\u2063
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The guilt, shame and damage control struggle around weekend overeating is real. But you’re not alone, a large portion of my audience shares the same struggles.\u2063\u2063<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73604,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-macro-tracking","category-pfc-balanced-eating"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilyfieldrd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73645"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilyfieldrd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilyfieldrd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilyfieldrd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilyfieldrd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73645"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/emilyfieldrd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73650,"href":"https:\/\/emilyfieldrd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73645\/revisions\/73650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilyfieldrd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilyfieldrd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilyfieldrd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilyfieldrd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}