Stay-cation Diet
Starting a competition diet and going on vacation the same week is not the best idea. Humph. We spent the week in Palm Springs with my grandparents. We ate out every meal and I did my best to stick to my plan even if it meant wringing napkins under the table a few times. I took two free meals. Chips and salsa are evil. So are fries and ranch. Aside from those meals I did pretty good. Of course, I wasn’t the iron-willed-queen-of-self-control that I had visualized myself but I could have been worse. Much worse.
I did do my workouts. After lifting weights with the spiders in my garage the hotel “gym” felt like I was working out at the Sky Sport Spa even though it was really just an over-sized closet with some free weights and treadmills. And they were good workouts with I’m going to “complain-50-times-a-day-so-everyone-remembers-I-workout” soreness.
This was the first time I went on vacation and didn’t mentally check out for the week and eat a year’s worth of fun food. Instead it was just a day or two’s worth, almost a stay-cation food wise. I think going on vacation and sticking to a moderately healthy eating plan is not only possible but even enjoyable.
Hugs and High Fives,
jenn
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Hey congrats on your stay-cation food plan- that is admirable! I aspire to it. We went on vacation for 2 wks last September- and I ate really pretty healthy and controlled until about Thursday of the first wk- started with a massive lobster roll in Maine- anyway…it was all downhill after that. Hope next vacation we take I will have more will power. Gotta throw spit balls at the college girls- or vacation where the retirees go- it is all relative
Glad to hear your vacation went well. What you accomplished is huge!!!
Wow…this is good to hear. It seems that I have always allowed vacations, and trips, or even friends visiting to affect my committment to myself. It’s like…HELLO…what kind of vacation is it where you abuse your body, and come home to not recognize yourself in the mirror?
I wanna’ hear more about your stay-cation. I’m excited to challenge myself to that this year during campouts…it’s always so hard to force myself to get up early camping to run…and to skip the drinks around the bonfire, or taking a bottle out on the lake with my honey….BUT…I think it could be enjoyable.
Once again I’m so with you. I love to camp and it’s always hard to get my but out of bed to exercise and even harder to not mindlessly eat. I usually plan my free meals for that week around our campout. If I have an extra free meal that week I don’t sweat it. I also take things like Cliff bars and eat those for snacks. I don’t eat those very often normally so it feels like a major treat.