Vacation

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  • Beverly2Hansen
    Beverly2Hansen Posts: 378 Member
    wunderkindking wrote: »
    Beverly2Hansen wrote: »
    So I can easily consume 3000 calories a day with food and alcohol on vacation in a week. I have to plan and log both my food and exercise. In 2017 I went up 10lbs from a week long vacation in Vagas. I think a normal person would be fine I personally can out eat most large men and did just that.

    ...in order for that math to work for it being all fat gain you would have had to have eaten more than 3,500 calories ABOVE maintenance a day. 3,500 + mainenance calories for SEVEN days would have only gained you 7lbs. Not that I doubt you gained it or whatever, but you ate WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY more than 3000 calories a day to gain 10lbs in a week, if a good chunk of it wasn't water.

    It was at least 3,000 calories of food and a 5th of fireball per day but yes I genuinely consumed enough to gain 10lbs. I was kind of letting lose after a really bad break up. It was messy I spent an entire week trying to forget. Unfortunately if you eat out 3x per day at 1200 cal meals it gets real bad real fast.

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 8,657 Member
    Beverly2Hansen wrote: »
    wunderkindking wrote: »
    Beverly2Hansen wrote: »
    So I can easily consume 3000 calories a day with food and alcohol on vacation in a week. I have to plan and log both my food and exercise. In 2017 I went up 10lbs from a week long vacation in Vagas. I think a normal person would be fine I personally can out eat most large men and did just that.

    ...in order for that math to work for it being all fat gain you would have had to have eaten more than 3,500 calories ABOVE maintenance a day. 3,500 + mainenance calories for SEVEN days would have only gained you 7lbs. Not that I doubt you gained it or whatever, but you ate WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY more than 3000 calories a day to gain 10lbs in a week, if a good chunk of it wasn't water.

    It was at least 3,000 calories of food and a 5th of fireball per day but yes I genuinely consumed enough to gain 10lbs. I was kind of letting lose after a really bad break up. It was messy I spent an entire week trying to forget. Unfortunately if you eat out 3x per day at 1200 cal meals it gets real bad real fast.

    And then you recognize both that you had a much needed break and that you need to reel it back in, so you do, and then that ten drops off surprisingly quickly as your body relaxes and goes,”aaaaaaaaah. Thank heavens. Normalcy again!”. 😘
  • rosebarnalice
    rosebarnalice Posts: 3,488 Member
    I log the best I can when I travel because I find that thread of consistency is a comfort to me rather than a burden.

    I have to estimate a lot, and I try to err on the high rather than the low side, but I also aim for "maintenance" calories instead of expecting to lose while on vacation.

    And if I get home and I'm a pound or two up, I consider that part of the "cost" of the trip.
  • elisa123gal
    elisa123gal Posts: 4,333 Member
    You lost 88 pounds. We should take your advice. Have the confidence that you know what to do. Whatever you decide..or which way you handle things..you are in control.
  • swimmchick87
    swimmchick87 Posts: 458 Member
    I've tried it both ways. Once, I was really careful with logging and sticking to my goal, and I lost a pound. You'd think I'd be pleased, but really I wasn't. I felt like I'd been deprived and it wasn't a "real vacation" because I was still "working" on weight loss. After that, I take breaks on vacations. That doesn't have to mean purposefully eat everything in sight. I try to remember that regardless of what I'm doing with calories at the moment, I'm not happy when I get that "overly stuffed" feeling. I eat what I want, but I don't binge.

    It's also important to get back on track the minute you get back. I'm someone who can't do "cheat days" because it just leads to continuous overeating. The thing that helps me with vacations is that there is a very real and clear separation between being on vacation and being back home. I find it much easier to get back on track quickly when I'm back home, because I'm back to the "home" habits I've already established. Being on vacation is clearly a separate and totally different thing, not some arbitrary "cheat day" that I end up stretching into "cheat 3 months."

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