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If you swear you’re “doing everything right” but the scale still won’t budge…you might be missing the sneaky overeats sabotaging your progress.

In this episode, I'll walk you through a weightloss diagnostic so you can:

• Spot the hidden eating habits your brain conveniently forgets
• Find red flags on nights and weekends before they snowball into overeating
• Uncover emotional eating in uncommon places that stall weightloss
• Get clear instead of frustrated—so you can finally make the scale move

You don’t need to starve yourself, overhaul your life, or blame menopause, hormones, or a “broken” metabolism. You just need to see what’s actually happening—and fix it.

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Alright. Today, we are going to talk about something that you don't hear a lot when it comes to dieting, but we're gonna talk about why we blow it on the weekend even if we're doing really good all week long. So I hear this all the time. My week was amazing, Corinne.

I did so good. But then the weekend hit, and I don't even know what happened. I was just eating my face off. I was eating like I hadn't done good all week.

And a lot of my clients even weigh in on Fridays, and they're like, oh my god. I lost, like, two pounds this week. So why would I eat like a maniac all weekend long? Well, we want to talk about it, and we wanna understand how we get into this predicament.

Because one of the things that I need you to understand is there are really good reasons why Monday through Friday can be really good, but the weekends can be really hard. At some point when it comes to Friday, we say fuck it. And I know why that happens because I used to do this so much. It was the reason one of the reasons why so many of my diets went down in a fiery, you know, hell real quick.

I would work hard all week long. I would be really good. And then I would, you know, wake up on Friday, and my voice in my head was already saying, like, well, you've been so good this week. You deserve a little treat. Like, all the times during the week when I ate like I was supposed to, when I said no to every single craving that I was having, when I was white knuckling my way Monday through Monday through Friday like it was a job. Like, literally, y'all, making myself do the things I thought I was supposed to do to lose weight. Friday night, I'd be wore out, exhausted, and wanting desperately a break.

I just couldn't keep up with the pressure. I was done trying so hard by then. I was emotionally worn out. I was sick and tired of overanalyzing everything, tracking everything, obsessing over food, like, all of that bullshit.

I was done trying to be perfect. It was like I craved just being a little bit imperfect, a little messy.

It's crazy. And so I would end up this was my big thing.

I would go to the grocery store, and I would buy a big roll of cookie dough, chocolate chip, and I would swear to God that I was just gonna make a few cookies, and I was gonna eat them and just get it out of my system. Well, the next thing you know, I'd I'd bring it home. I'd open up the roll. Never make the cookies, but I would start slice by slice, nibble by nibble, eating that raw ass cookie dough.

Now I'm gonna tell y'all right now, even talking about it, my mouth is watering. I love me some raw fucking cookie dough. And y'all don't come at me and email me saying how unhealthy that is and bullshit. I'm gonna tell you, I must have ate thousands of rolls of raw cookie dough, and here I am standing just fine.

I always tell my mother, I must have the world's most iron gut because, Lord help me, I ate so much raw cookie dough. So the only way that I ever felt like I got a break in life was if I was breaking my diet on the weekend. My weeks were pretty hard. Way back in the day when I would work, I had to travel all week. I worked for assholes at a restaurant company. They yelled at us.

We had to work long hours. I were I mean, I worked a minimum of twelve hours a day every day.

Salary ass individual. I was lucky if I didn't work sixteen hours sometimes. I still remember sitting in my office, getting there at six in the morning, and then going home every night around eight or nine o'clock at night and just working all fucking day Monday through Friday. It is no wonder that by the weekend, I felt like I needed a break, and I did.

Unfortunately, the only way I knew how to take a break was to go by Kroger, get that raw cookie dough, and that was the gateway to a weekend of eating. Eating. That meant on Saturday, I was gonna be ordering pizza. It meant by Saturday night, I was meeting a girlfriend for drinks and margaritas.

It meant on Sunday, I needed to go through the house and eat all the junk food that I collected through the weekend, get it all ate, get it out of my system because I was gonna start right back on Monday, dieting hard and overworking.

I mean, when I look back on it now, it is not rocket science as to why by the weekend, if I wasn't gonna get any kind of rest, any kind of breaks, I was going to undereat through the week, I was gonna starve myself while overworking. Like, I was never fueling myself. I felt like Monday through Friday, I had to diet extra hard to make up for the sins of the last weekend, which made the future weekend I would eat even more because I was now going into the weekend so under fueled both with rest and with food.

So this is one of the big reasons why we get stuck in that loop of eating our face off all weekend long.

So for all of you, you have to realize weekend you who's blowing it, this is not because she doesn't have willpower.

She's been using it so much during the week that she doesn't have any left for the weekend.

And she's overusing willpower during the week. She's putting herself into situations where she shouldn't be using willpower. There's no reason to starve yourself during the week.

I can remember sitting there thinking it was so good of me to miss lunch because I'd overeat so much during the weekend. I was like, well, you probably didn't need lunch anyway. And so I would use willpower to fight the hunger that I was having. My body didn't give a damn how much pizza, margaritas, chips, all the things that I had ate on the weekend.

On Wednesday at lunch, it was just like, bitch, we're hungry, and you've got a sixteen hour day to work. Don't you think we should eat? And I'm like, no. You blew it this weekend.

Let's be good. We don't have time to eat.

And and I wonder why I would lose control every single weekend. So my problem wasn't a lack of willpower on Saturday and Sunday. My problem was during the week, neglecting myself.

Neglecting myself, forcing myself to do unhealthy things, stupid things, under fuel too much, work too much.

Like, the all the years that I did those sixteen hour days, you know what I never did? Not one time did I go to my boss and take a list of all my projects and say, hey, you.

I'm having to work from six AM to about nine or ten o'clock at night, and here's all the things you want me to do.

And I wanna make sure I get the best work to you.

So can you help me figure out timelines for all this? Because I don't like, I was honest. I don't like, seriously, I wouldn't have minded working a twelve hour day.

I liked working, but I was working myself so much because I was afraid my boss would be mad. I was afraid I would get fired, which is crazy to me because I was the only one working like that. You know what I was doing?

My boss was giving me work because I was the only one getting it done.

Everybody else was going home.

So if I like, when I look back, I'm like, Corinne, I really wish I'd had the courage and the confidence to walk into my boss's office and just be professional and lay it all out on the line and to just say those things rather than believing what I thought was true, which is I'll get fired when the evidence showed that everybody else in my department wasn't getting fired for working eight and twelve hour days.

So maybe I could also advocate for my needs, and that was my weekend eating problem. I didn't know how to ask for my needs. I didn't know any way to talk to people.

And had I had someone like me teaching me that shit back then, I guarantee all of you, I wouldn't have spent decades overweight and losing control on the weekends.

So for me, food was the only time I was letting myself rest to not feel the pressure to disconnect from my job.

It was the only pleasure I was really getting. It was the only break that I was getting.

Like, food was it for me. It wasn't just food.

It was the way I finally got to stop being superwoman, being the one who shouldered everything.

So that is the real reason that most of us are saying fuck it on the weekend because we are during the week not getting rest, talking like assholes to ourselves, pushing ourselves harder than we need to be pushed, telling ourselves we're lazy if we don't do the dishes tonight, guilting ourself for taking time to ourselves when our kids haven't been with us all day long, feeling bad because at eight o'clock at night, you don't wanna play Tiddlywinks with your kids.

It's like, who the fuck does? I remember beating myself up when Logan was first born because I hated watching Teletubbies. For some reason, I felt like the world's worst mother because I didn't enjoy Teletubbies. And now when I look back, I just think that is so silly. What, you know, thirty something year old woman is supposed to be like, I can't wait for another repeat episode of the Teletubbies.

Teletubbies is supposed to be fun for a two year old, not a thirty something year old woman's brain. And yet, I would feel bad that I didn't enjoy the things Logan enjoyed, that I didn't have a lot of things in common with my one and a half year old boy.

Oh, the things us women do to ourselves.

So let's talk about what could be happening for you. Monday through Friday, a lot of us are doing the right things. We are following our plan. We're, you know, we're skipping snacks when we're not hungry.

We're eating a turkey sandwich that we packed instead of just going through the drive through. And that stuff, I think, is good. I'm not knocking it. You are working very hard.

But I think it's the way that we do these things that become the problem. We're doing it while commanding ourselves. We're doing it like we're counting down the days until Friday. It's like, well, I can't have drive through.

I have to eat this turkey sandwich. Instead of saying, like, I brought a turkey sandwich today, and I really enjoy it.

And although I would love to go to the drive through, I just know that the drive through isn't gonna be the best choice for me. So many of us are using command language through the week, like you have to do this, you shouldn't do that. We talk to ourselves like complete jerks, and then we wonder why on the weekend it's like, if you're spending twenty four seven with a jerk Monday through Friday, don't you think you'd like to be away from the jerk for a couple of days on the weekend?

So one of the things that's happening is during the week, we are talking to ourselves like a jerk instead of thinking about, alright. If I am going to skip going to lunch, am I gonna tell myself, it's so unfair. Everybody gets to eat what they want but you. You have to sit here and eat your turkey sandwich.

Or are you just gonna say, like, no. Thank you. I brought a turkey sandwich. Y'all have fun.

And then when they go, you just tell yourself, it's just a choice. I'll probably be proud of myself come tomorrow. That is such a different way. But so many of us don't even realize that Monday through Friday, we are being the jerk to ourselves and wondering why we're caving to food all weekend long.

So when the weekend gets there, it's the only time that we're turning off that voice because we do constant eating, and we don't have to hear all of it. So here's something else that I see with my clients. They're not just overeating because the food tastes good on the weekends. They're overeating because their week is full of stress that they're not even recognizing, that they're not even saying, I see you. I see that you've got a lot on your plate.

So if work is chaotic, your kids got four thousand sports they're in, you're running them here, there, and everywhere, your spouse feels seems to be checked out, they're not offering to help you with anything, they're just sitting back while you take care of all the things.

My clients, when they live that life, they are overwhelmed, and I understand that, and they are tired. But instead of asking for help, instead of saying, like, I've got too much on my plate right now. I need to figure out what I can take off. I need to have a conversation with my partner that's not nagging, not yelling, not me losing my shit, but, like, literally sitting down and going over with him like, hey.

Here's all the things. I'm wore out. I'm wore out so much that I feel like on the weekends, like, that's the only break I get, and I have to eat in order to get it. Now if you want don't wanna share that part with them, you don't have to.

But so many women, the reason why we're eating on the weekend is because we're just pushing through during the week.

And when we don't have any support from ourselves, much less the people around us, we're gonna eat. We are going to eat in order to get it.

The food that we eat on the weekend is a Band Aid that we're putting on a, you know, bullet wound in our stomach.

It's like getting shot in the gut and saying, just hand me one of them big Band Aids. I'm sure that'll be alright. And that's how we're trying to survive the week instead of, I need a doctor. I'm gonna need help.

I need to talk to the people in my life. I may need to say no to my kids every now and then and realize that's not the end of the world for them, but that's not the family life we want. One of my dear friends, her name is Stacy, she she runs a business and it's a it's a very big business and it's really time consuming. And she's got kids and they want and she even runs a dance school.

She's got kids that wanna be involved in, like, every sport known to man. And she sat down and thought about what kind of family life do they really want.

And the family life that she said she wanted, she's like, I want us to be connected.

I am willing to put my kids in a sport, but we like, I just don't think that I wanna wake up one day when I'm eighty and I remember all the years that I was wore out driving my kids from here and there.

So she decided what she wanted her family life to look like, and she talked to her kids and said, you get one sport a season, and we're not gonna do any travel sports.

I want you to be in the regular sports because she knew she didn't want the cost and the time that went into all of it. Now I'm not saying that those things are bad.

What I am saying is that so many of us think I can't say no to my kids, and so I say yes to a life I don't want. Instead of thinking, how about I say, this is the life I want my entire family to have, and all of us are going to really be thankful one day.

And so she just decided what she wanted and then went to her children and said, you get to have any sport you want each season, and it just can't require long distance travel.

And it has worked beautifully for her. And guess what she doesn't do every weekend?

Stuff her face, eat like a asshole because she's tired, overcommitted to her kids, and overcommitted to a really busy job and just trying to keep up with everything. She was like, I don't need to have a perfect life. I need to decide what a perfect life looks like for me, and that's what we're going to have.

I don't want the perfect life that the society tells me I should have. I just think these are the important conversations we have to have to lose weight.

This is the stuff that we are not talking about in weight loss. These are the reasons why so many women are using food to get through the weekend.

This is why, like, so many women can get so focused during the week because they're so busy during the week that when the weekend comes and there's some quiet, they they have to make up for all the energy burned through the week. They've gotta make up for all the extreme dieting that they did for pushing themselves too hard. When food is the way that you give yourself peace, joy, relaxation, guess what? You're gonna want it more when life quiets down and the urges can speak louder.

So just because you are eating on the weekends, it doesn't mean that you're somehow broken or that you can't lose weight.

You're just normal. You're a normal human.

If during the week, shit is too much, food is the way that currently right now you are giving yourself an opportunity to reset.

I just want you to have new ways to reset. I just want you to have new ways to think about things so that weekend you doesn't feel like she has to eat her face off in order to gear up for the Monday through Friday version of you who pushes her too hard, commits to too much, doesn't give her breaks, doesn't allow her to speak up for her needs, is constantly telling her how she's not good enough, she's not doing enough, she's selfish for doing this, she should feel guilty for that, she should do more, all of that stupidity that we do.

So the other day, I had a member, and she said, Corinne, I just don't know what happens on the weekend. I plan my food. I have my intentions. But even with a plan, on the weekends, I'm just blowing it every single time. So I just asked her, what is different about your weekend? And she said, well, I think it's the only time I feel like I do get that break.

So I told her, well, of course, you're blowing it. You've trained yourself to associate that when you eat, you finally get to feel peace. When you eat, you don't have to think about the rest.

For her, food was a soft landing place in life that was too hard. So I asked her, I said, what would it be like to plan some type of relief during the week and on the weekend in little amounts. And we just kind of worked through what she could start changing, areas that she could do to get started.

And lo and behold, her weekend eating over a month started going down. She noticed she had more control. She was planning for a few fun things to eat during the week so that she wasn't just eating them on the weekend. Because when she spread them out a little bit throughout the week where she had a little bit of joy and pleasure and food then, then she noticed she didn't have to overeat them on the weekend feeling as if you won't get this again for another week.

You're only gonna have a hard week, and then we have rest on the weekend. She started showing herself little ways that she could build in relief that she was desperately seeking on the weekends. And that's what I want for you. I want you to stop beating yourself up for blowing it on the weekend, and I want you to start getting curious about why you think you're doing it.

What about your life is hard right now that could explain it?

What what kind of needs do you think are going unmet right now that on the weekends, food meets?

It allows you to feel. You finally get to feel this when you eat on the weekend. I think those are some of the most important conversations we can have when we're trying to lose weight because that's where all the answers to actually losing weight lie.

So some of the reasons that my clients tell me all the time are a lot of times during the week, they're over restricting food, and on the weekend is the only time that they're able to eat to where they feel like they're not constantly hungry or not getting enough. So sometimes they need to eat more during the week. We call it being a well fed woman and no BS. Some of them tell me that they are, by Friday, emotionally spent.

And so food is the only way that they recharge.

And so the answer is then how do we put in ways to recharge a little bit during the week, and what things can we plan for the weekends that you can look forward to that also could recharge you? Some of them are just lonely.

During Monday through Friday, they're around people, they are working, all the things, and they're kind of like me back in the day. I was single back in the day, and weekends were incredibly lonely. All I would think about was how nobody loved me. I'd probably never get married. I was too fat. Nobody ever looked at me. You know, my friends would show up on Monday morning, tell them about all the dates they went on, all the fun they had, and all I did was sit there with my raw ass cookie dough, eating that on Friday, and then ordering pizza on Saturday to feel better about all the cookie dough that I ate on Friday night.

So for some of us, it's lonely.

And so when we know that, we wanna figure out, like, alright. If I'm gonna be lonely, how do I wanna talk to myself?

When I was not eating, I was not nice to myself. All I would talk to myself was like, yeah, you're the loser. You're the one. You're the blah blah blah.

I didn't treat myself to anything.

I didn't join anything.

That's the stuff we need to start solving.

So if any of this sounds familiar to you, just know you are not alone.

The reason why we have a podcast on it, the reason why I developed an entire workshop for my members all around how to stop blowing it on the weekends is because so many women do it.

Because getting our weekends under control is a vital part of the entire weight loss journey.

And so I want you to hear this if you don't hear anything else today. Weekend overeating has nothing to do with you needing to work harder, try harder, willpower, be more disciplined, it's probably because during the week, you're over disciplining yourself. You're trying too hard.

You're labeling being good as things like skipping meals, under fueling, not getting enough rest, overworking, and you're calling all of that being good when in reality it's wearing you out.

And when you understand that eating on the weekend is a signal that you have unmet emotional and probably physical needs, it's a lot easier to solve the real problem. So this week, just pay attention to how you're talking to yourself this week, where you might be overworking, where you might have room to take some more breaks, to give yourself some more rest, to speak up for your needs, to ask for help.

Just look for where you have opportunities. You don't have to take them.

But I want you to look for them and get curious as to why you're not taking them.

All of that stuff is what we can help you with inside no BS.

But it's also stuff you need to recognize because you might just be able to help yourself and maybe not even need me. Who knows?

But you deserve to ask these questions because this isn't just about losing weight.

This is about having the life that you really want, and that's what I most want for you.

Alright. Y'all have a great week. I will see you next time.