Vacation rant

Day 3 into my vacation and I'm over it! Mediocre breakfast without low calorie and filling options, so I eat too much crap food because I'm starving... Spending too much time finding a restaurant that, if I'm lucky, have side salads instead of fries (already so sick of side salads) and more than burgers, sandwiches and salads... Trying something I've been craving and wasting 450 calories on a mediocre sodium bomb...

Gosh. How do people do it? I'm not that picky but we're walking a lot and I've been hungry so grilled chicken and salad just doesn't cut it (and seriously.. SICK OF SALADS).

Ok rant over. At least my dessert at lunch was good, but that's 500 calories out of all I ate today...

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Alluminati

970Mikaela1 wrote: »

It took me forever to get my wife to quit bringing the plug in griddle thing. Nothing like bacon and eggs in your room! I'd always crack up at the smell of bacon cooking on the 10 floor of a casino .

There's a girl on youtube who gives you tips and tricks of cooking food in your hotel room. She makes oatmeal in the coffee pot and bacon with some tinfoil and an iron.

Momjogger

I bring a cooler with food on most vacations for myself - yogurt, fruit, hard boiled eggs. I also would pack snacks for the little ones - granola bars, nutrigrain bars, cereal and portable snacks such as nuts and dried edamame. Planning at night when the kids go to bed is the fun part. More structure leads to less melt downs. Even on the fly Google and a smart phone can locate a Chipotle or a Panera.

970Mikaela1

Ninkyou wrote: »

970Mikaela1 wrote: »

ndj1979 wrote: »

I usually eat and drink everything in site when on vacation ...

It's not a vacation unless I come home with a few more pounds than I left with.

You need to bring home souvenirs. Pounds are cheaper than going shopping.

I remember flying back from las Vegas and my bags weighed too much from all the shampoos and conditioners I swiped. Learned a valuable lesson that time.

SherryTeach

I also bring lots of food on car trips. In fact, I bought one of those coolers that plugs into the DC plug of the car and it also has an AC adapter for the hotel room. It's like having my own mini fridge. I have yogurt, cheese, sliced deli meat, grapes, and stuff like that readily available to go with the contents of my food box: crackers, bananas, nuts, granola, etc. And my restaurant leftovers can go in there too. But let's keep working on those kids.

newfutures

barbecuesauce wrote: »

newfutures wrote: »

myfelinepal wrote: »

Isn't vacation synonymous with diet break or is that just me?

no

No only if you like feeling resentful and deprived[/quote

so sorry your relationship with food is so horrible you make yourself feel that way.

shrinkingletters

Wait.

What is meaning of "vacation"?

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mwyvr

I don't think one has to give up good food taste or habits while on vacation in order to enjoy a vacation. I don't enjoy mediocre food from a restaurant off vacation so why would I enjoy it while on vacation?

In that sense I empathise with the OP. Also having children, picky children especially, complicates matters.

That said in any major centre there are going to be all sorts of food gems out there ranging from restaurants not popular with tourists to markets to food trucks to visiting a great butcher or deli and assembling some meals in a park.

Come up with a plan on where to eat and/or shop long before the more likely to be grumpy members of your party are hungry and you stand a better chance of getting good food instead of settling for whatever is passable and handy.

barbecuesauce

newfutures wrote: »

barbecuesauce wrote: »

newfutures wrote: »

myfelinepal wrote: »

Isn't vacation synonymous with diet break or is that just me?

no

No only if you like feeling resentful and deprived

so sorry your relationship with food is so horrible you make yourself feel that way.

LMAO. Have you ever been on vacation? Ever paid attention to what you consume on vacation? You're going to make your drinks and restaurant meals fit into your calorie budget? How? With a griddle you bring from home?

Every single person who disagreed with you is close to or has hit goal. Please let us know how staying on deficit during special occasions works out for you.

barbecuesauce

shell1005 wrote: »

I usually stay in some sort of deficit when I am on vacation.....mainly because I walk about a bajillion miles and still get up early to go running. I eat more than usual, but I am also way more active. I usually come home a pound or two lighter.

However, there is also nothing wrong with taking the week off. Now making yourself miserable during that week with not just relaxing and letting everything be what it is....that is less than okay. To the OP...your vacations sound like torture and to be honest, it sounds self inflicted.

Same. And all that extra walking and hiking. I try to make better choices, but there's no point in going on vacation and worrying about whether you're on target.

PrizePopple

Serah87 wrote: »

Francl27 wrote: »

fivethreeone wrote: »

3dogsrunning wrote: »

Francl27 wrote: »

LoraF83 wrote: »

You're honestly saying that in a city like Boston, you can't find a healthy, high quality restaurant to eat at?

Really?

Get the yelp app. Look for nearby restaurants. And get uber while you're at it, and you can expand your search area a little since their car service will take you places for cheap.

We're just out of Boston with kids who hate walking and my husband doesn't like making plans so I can't always spend 20 minutes looking at restaurants when everyone is getting hungry (and forget walking 10 minutes out of the way). The place we went to tonight had good reviews on Yelp... not sure why. At lunch I gave up searching after 5 minutes and the only substitution was yet another side salad.

Believe me if we didn't have the kids I would have had everything planned.

Kids go to bed early. Start planning tomorrow tonight.
TripAdvisor is another good one. You can check menus ahead of time.

You get out of here with your logic! Can't a girl just rant and make excuses in peace around here?!

I can't plan anything. God knows when my kids will actually be hungry and when we'll be when they are. Maybe I should have titled this 'vacationing with kids when watching your diet sucks'. But everyone doesn't have a daughter who screams in the street that she's not hungry and won't eat and wants to go back to the hotel either (the main reason of my frustration really and why I'm thinking I'll stay home next year).

But it was a rant. You were warned

How old is your daughter??

Does she wear the pants in the family??

HAH!

Dude if my kids acted like that they would get so much stink eye they would start walking just to get the hell away from me.

Giving up on searching after 5 minutes, comes here to piss and moan about lack of choices. Right.

TheVirgoddess

I feel like this is the very definition of a first world problem.

snickerscharlie

TheVirgoddess wrote: »

I feel like this is the very definition of a first world problem.

Bingo. OP needs to count her blessings.

Well, maybe not the daughter...

T1DCarnivoreRunner

A few thoughts:
1. Vacation is supposed to be enjoyable. It sounds like it isn't because you brought kids. You failed at vacation, but perhaps you learned that kids = poor quality vacation. (Honestly, how do you not know your own daughter well enough to know better?!)
2. For short-term while on vacation, it is ok to go over on calories. Sometimes you have to walk for a mile, but that doesn't mean you won't finish the marathon.
3. I'm not from Boston, but I've driven there on a weekday. My experience combined with a very wide perspective is that driving isn't an issue. In some areas, parking can be a challenge, but nowhere near what you might expect someplace like San Franscisco (I've driven in 48 of the 50 US states and in most major US cities).

At this point, don't worry about calories. Salvage the vacation as best as you can and then get back on track for weight loss when you finish the vacation.

nz_deevaa

But think of all those excellent family memories you are making.

Heartisalonelyhunter

PrizePopple wrote: »

Serah87 wrote: »

Francl27 wrote: »

fivethreeone wrote: »

3dogsrunning wrote: »

Francl27 wrote: »

LoraF83 wrote: »

You're honestly saying that in a city like Boston, you can't find a healthy, high quality restaurant to eat at?

Really?

Get the yelp app. Look for nearby restaurants. And get uber while you're at it, and you can expand your search area a little since their car service will take you places for cheap.

We're just out of Boston with kids who hate walking and my husband doesn't like making plans so I can't always spend 20 minutes looking at restaurants when everyone is getting hungry (and forget walking 10 minutes out of the way). The place we went to tonight had good reviews on Yelp... not sure why. At lunch I gave up searching after 5 minutes and the only substitution was yet another side salad.

Believe me if we didn't have the kids I would have had everything planned.

Kids go to bed early. Start planning tomorrow tonight.
TripAdvisor is another good one. You can check menus ahead of time.

You get out of here with your logic! Can't a girl just rant and make excuses in peace around here?!

I can't plan anything. God knows when my kids will actually be hungry and when we'll be when they are. Maybe I should have titled this 'vacationing with kids when watching your diet sucks'. But everyone doesn't have a daughter who screams in the street that she's not hungry and won't eat and wants to go back to the hotel either (the main reason of my frustration really and why I'm thinking I'll stay home next year).

But it was a rant. You were warned

How old is your daughter??

Does she wear the pants in the family??

HAH!

Dude if my kids acted like that they would get so much stink eye they would start walking just to get the hell away from me.

Giving up on searching after 5 minutes, comes here to piss and moan about lack of choices. Right.

Right. This is a ridiculous post. I have 4 kids and if they are lucky enough to get taken on vacation then complaining is not an option. OP is complaining about Holiday Inn breakfasts in one of the great food cities (because she's a 'food snob'??!). Apparently she can't walk anywhere because her daughter is entitled and has no social niceties. Wonder where she got that from?
Relax. Cheer up. Count your blessings.

karyabc

Heartisalonelyhunter wrote: »

PrizePopple wrote: »

Serah87 wrote: »

Francl27 wrote: »

fivethreeone wrote: »

3dogsrunning wrote: »

Francl27 wrote: »

LoraF83 wrote: »

You're honestly saying that in a city like Boston, you can't find a healthy, high quality restaurant to eat at?

Really?

Get the yelp app. Look for nearby restaurants. And get uber while you're at it, and you can expand your search area a little since their car service will take you places for cheap.

We're just out of Boston with kids who hate walking and my husband doesn't like making plans so I can't always spend 20 minutes looking at restaurants when everyone is getting hungry (and forget walking 10 minutes out of the way). The place we went to tonight had good reviews on Yelp... not sure why. At lunch I gave up searching after 5 minutes and the only substitution was yet another side salad.

Believe me if we didn't have the kids I would have had everything planned.

Kids go to bed early. Start planning tomorrow tonight.
TripAdvisor is another good one. You can check menus ahead of time.

You get out of here with your logic! Can't a girl just rant and make excuses in peace around here?!

I can't plan anything. God knows when my kids will actually be hungry and when we'll be when they are. Maybe I should have titled this 'vacationing with kids when watching your diet sucks'. But everyone doesn't have a daughter who screams in the street that she's not hungry and won't eat and wants to go back to the hotel either (the main reason of my frustration really and why I'm thinking I'll stay home next year).

But it was a rant. You were warned

How old is your daughter??

Does she wear the pants in the family??

HAH!

Dude if my kids acted like that they would get so much stink eye they would start walking just to get the hell away from me.

Giving up on searching after 5 minutes, comes here to piss and moan about lack of choices. Right.

Right. This is a ridiculous post. I have 4 kids and if they are lucky enough to get taken on vacation then complaining is not an option. OP is complaining about Holiday Inn breakfasts in one of the great food cities (because she's a 'food snob'??!). Apparently she can't walk anywhere because her daughter is entitled and has no social niceties. Wonder where she got that from?
Relax. Cheer up. Count your blessings.

^so much of this. i mean as a kid my family struggle so much that when my parents took us for vacation was like winning the lottery, we didn't complaint at all, and even if would my mom hahahhahaah that lady is kind of scary (awesome) so not that just didn't happen,just to going to the cheapest motel and taking road trips vacations was simply amazing and enough for us, we need sometimes to put things in perspective and above all be grateful.

karyabc

TheVirgoddess wrote: »

I feel like this is the very definition of a first world problem.

ahhhh you just read my mind, that's what came to my mind up front, but didn't want to say afraid it came bad, as someone who grew up and live my whole life in a VERY third world country, we don't even understand the definition of food snob

, you just eat the food you can find and buy..

ncfitbit

My kids are older than yours, but I remember feeling somewhat hamstrung at mealtimes on vacation, especially when I knew there was better food around. It will pass. They will grow up, and too fast. Keep that in mind. Tomorrow's breakfast will soon be a dim memory, but your family time together when they are young is precious.

Also, my kids seem to have good memories of family vacation meals we had that I thought of as regrettable at the time (eg. for convenience's sake we ended up eating several meals at cafeteria type place in Spain and all I could think was "I could be eating paella!" ), but they seem to remember it fondly, possibly only because we ate there more than once.

Heartisalonelyhunter

ncfitbit wrote: »

My kids are older than yours, but I remember feeling somewhat hamstrung at mealtimes on vacation, especially when I knew there was better food around. It will pass. They will grow up, and too fast. Keep that in mind. Tomorrow's breakfast will soon be a dim memory, but your family time together when they are young is precious.

Also, my kids seem to have good memories of family vacation meals we had that I thought of as regrettable at the time (eg. for convenience's sake we ended up eating several meals at cafeteria type place in Spain and all I could think was "I could be eating paella!" ), but they seem to remember it fondly, possibly only because we ate there more than once.

My kids are the same - often it's the unexpected places they remember so fondly! Also I find vacation a great time to get them to try new types of food

ndj1979

nz_deevaa wrote: »

But think of all those excellent family memories you are making.

something tells me this will not be going in the family album...

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