My vacation victory

Aubgurl81

Last week, I spent a about 24 hours in Savannah, and then met my family at the beach. I have always gained weight on vacation. Always. And this year was no different. We eat out lunch and dinner and there is always a ton of junk food laying around.

But this year, I was different. For the first time in I don’t know how long, I let myself leave food on the plate. I didn’t have to eat everything I paid for. A few times, I boxed up half of my food before I even started eating so that I wouldn’t eat it all. I also ordered from the appetizer menu some instead of a full entree, or I would split something. I had my fair share of frozen drinks, but I also had a TON of water.

Came home Friday and my AC is out and it won’t be cheap to fix/replace. Instead of eating all the food in my house, I sat down and read a book.

I was happily surprised when I weighed in this morning to see that I was only up .5 lbs! That’s it, half a pound. Making better choices really is paying off!

GoRun2

Congrats!

Hollis300

Fantastic! I like the idea of boxing up half the food so you don't eat it all. Also, the .5 might be water weight since restaurant food is usually high in sodium.

allaboutthecake

That's a win!

LiveOnceBeHappy

Awesome! New habits.

GinLee61

Congrats! That IS a victory.

GSPsnBees

Total win! Way to go!

Life_On_The_Lake

Heck ya! I think we all struggle with those times away from our kitchen where we have a routine and better control.

There are lesser evil choices out there and thank you for sharing the boxing up a portion of your entree (that will be clutch for me) I find when food options are limited even the best choice on the menu can not be what is a routine meal I.E. chicken club - What I did was take out the middle piece of bread and felt good about that

Hollis300

Wonderful, and thanks for sharing here. This proves that small daily choices add up to big wins.

sargemarcori

you're inspiring. I'm going on a long vacation (SO EXCITED) and I've been worrying about it.