I’m on vacation and can’t weigh myself. Is this a problem?

10West66th

PAV8888

Your scale will be lonely type of problem?🤔

You might forget to eat type of problem?🤔

Or the you may systematically overdrink and systematically overeat type of problem?

Your scale reflects the results of normal biological processes and your personal choices in terms of your caloric balance.

You still get to make your choices and you still get to lose, gain or maintain regardless of the existence of mirrors or scales.😉

AnnPT77

No, not a problem.

If you're someone like me with a tendency toward overweight, we're talking about changing some meaningful habits lifelong.

Are you never going on vacation ever again? Please say "no" to that, say you will take vacations now and then for the rest of your life . . . and enjoy them, besides.

Are you never going to go on vacation unless you have a bodyweight scale available? Please say "no" to that one, too.

In the big picture, a week or so of vacation is a drop in the ocean. Your humdrum, routine, day-in, day-out habits are the ocean. The majority of days determine the majority of our results. The exception days are less important, almost close to unimportant.

Go on vacation. See the sights, have fun. Eat some special foods. Don't go crazy with food and drink, but don't put all food-related pleasures off limits, either. Just be sensible about eating and staying reasonably active. It'll be fine.

High, high odds the scale will jump up on your first weigh-in after your return. Things like unusual eating patterns, unusual activities, and long drives or air travel . . . they all add water weight, sometimes lots of it. Expect that to show up on the scale.

Get back on your regular, health-promoting routine the very minute you return home. Keep working those positive daily routine habits. The water weight will drop off over a week or two. If you're sensibly moderate on vacation, and get back to your healthy routine, there will be little or no fat gain still in the picture in a week or two. If there is some, you can lose it.

That's my advice, from the perspective of year 9+ maintaining a healthy weight, after around 30 pre-loss years of overweight/obesity.

Drama isn't essential. Guilt is probably counterproductive. Too much self-denial backfires. Moderation and persistence deliver results.

springlering62

I travel frequently.

I’ve learned several techniques that help.

1.) even if I have to guesstimate, I keep logging. It keeps me accountable, and makes me consider what I’m eating.

It makes me weigh the value of the (lol) Milka Maxxx chocolate bar versus the quarkini and giant bowl of latte. I’m going to have one or the other, because I can’t get either at home, it makes me understand I probably can’t slide by with both. And I’m probably going to come down in the side of the quarkini and latte because that leaves enough room for an apple or cheese or something else later on. That Milka bar will go down too fast for comfort.

2.) how can I keep moving while on vacation? It would have been so easy to jump in the rental car and drive to the bakery, but I elected to walk the mile or so there, enjoy the quarkini and latte, and walk home. Bonus: I got to learn several routes through a really scenic town, and was able to tell family who’d just moved there about cool things I’d found they didn’t even know about.

I took a yoga mat with me and did a few series. BTW, every TJ or TK Maxxnin every country sells a $10 or so yoga mat,‘if you don’t want to tote one in the plane. I’m fixing to invest in a folding travel mat for upcoming trips.

I also always have trainers with me, so a few days,I did a run over to the next village and back, past the cows and barns, and the village “football” field. One of my favorite runs I ever did was (verrrrry carefully) through a snowy, Christmas decorated Bavarian village. I deliberately got lost so I could enjoy the town walls, go in through the old city gates, and through back streets. What a blast!

3.) if I start freaking out because I see I’ve gone over a bit, I tally the estimated calories so far. 2900 calories over this week? That’s not even a “pound’s worth” (3500) calories. Slow down, take a deep breath, relax and continue to enjoy. 10-12,000 over? Oops, slow it down, buster!

4.) most importantly, recognize that long drives, train trips and especially air travel (cabin pressure!!!!) can cause water retention.

I’ve learned from several years of logging that I can easily be up 5-7 pounds after a cross country or international flight and it’s nothing to freak out over. You will very literally pee most of that out within days. It’s staggering how much water retention airplanes cause. I swear I can look at a plane and my feet swell.

Don’t forgo rare treats. Just be judicious in how you choose to use your calories.

Be on the lookout for something new, too. That bakery also sold cups of sahnequark with fruit jam. Best compared to ice cream that wasn’t frozen. Thick, sweet, chilled. Soooooooo good. And doggone if the calories weren’t relatively comparable to Greek or French style yogurt. A bit higher but certainly worth every delicious, creamy, drool-worthy spoonful.

there’s reasonable calorie “finds” everywhere, if you look.

Merkavar

enjoy your holiday

weigh yourself when you get back

how long are you on holiday? 1 week? 2 weeks? So you miss 1 to 2 weigh ins?

Or do you weigh everyday?

yirara

Not weighing yourself is not a problem. Not practicing portion control and not using a food scale can be a problem if you otherwise stuff your face. Just very generally as you've not provided more information. If you eat 1000 calories above maintenance for 1 week you could expect to gain 2lbs. That's not too bad, right? Make good food choices, see vacation as a time to explore, do things, relax. Not to eat all the food you can get your hands on.