Almost Disney Time - Can I avoid regression???

DisneyAddictRW

We r at Disney in 8 days! Regular dinning plan. My plan is to drink lots of water! Between walking and water that will help. I do expect to have some "treats" however I plan to enjoy but be reasonable. I can still enjoy Disney without going over board the entire time. My personal down fall is the bakery! Enjoy your trip and i'd just try to make good choices so when u have a oops meal it will balance out with the water intake plus all the walking!

emandbri

Add me to the list of those who lost weight at Disney World. The ice cream at the Italian place in epcot was the most fabulous stuff I have eaten in my life. I want to go back just for that ice cream.

chasidieason

We r at Disney in 8 days! Regular dinning plan. My plan is to drink lots of water! Between walking and water that will help. I do expect to have some "treats" however I plan to enjoy but be reasonable. I can still enjoy Disney without going over board the entire time. My personal down fall is the bakery! Enjoy your trip and i'd just try to make good choices so when u have a oops meal it will balance out with the water intake plus all the walking!

I think you're onto a good plan here, I'm feeling much better about it and I'm going to enjoy it for sure! Keep your eye out for us - we'll still be there, and we'll be the crazy ones with the wedding ears on! :laugh:

chasidieason

Great way to look at it, and it sounds like you've thought through the level of commitment you want to make to being healthy. Some will go to more extremes, some won't.

My point about the water weight wasn't to dampen your enthusiasm - it was to insulate the momentum you've built up. It was a warning that when you go back to your bad habits, even temporarily on a trip - be ready for some bad weight gain as much of what you've lost is water weight. Which, by the way, is good. That's your body responding to a new balance in your body. Remember, much of the gain will again be water weight...just your body's response.

Maybe you have been a workout freak...if you have been burning in excess of 3700 calories daily to stay at a net -2500 caloric intake, you may have lost all of that in something besides water weight. And if you have, I want to be your workout buddy about three times a week!

Have fun, stay fit.

"being so obsessed that I'll sell myself short of enjoying some good food and possibly dampening my husband's good time on our honeymoon."

Couple things here...you're still equating enjoying life with eating 'some good food'. The food you've been eating is 'good', the food you're talking about is an indulgence. You need to separate the idea of food = fun. Don't get me wrong, I'm a hard-core eater...love the like of Tru, Trotter's, Alinea...but know there's a price to pay BEFORE I go. Best of luck breaking that psychological connection. Best bet is to remember how you feel when the weight is lower on the scale, or the dress size goes down. Does that trump the ice cream cone? Until it does, you WILL NOT keep your weight off. Secondly, if your husband's good time depends on your eating calorically dense, nutritient free foods...something isn't making sense. Don't use him as an excuse.

Secondly, from you post it sounds like you've dropped 15 or so pounds in 10 days? If so, you cannot expect to keep that weight off. Unfortunately, unless you have burnt yourself into an average of a 5250 calorie deficit per day, much of that weight is water weight. That's good, because your body is getting used to eating healthier. BUT, it's bad when you go back to the 'old way', because your body will retain a large portion of that water again, and you'll see the scale jump quickly. Just be sure to understand this dynamic, and don't get into a frenzy of excitement / disappointment based just on fluid changes.

That's my thoughts...for what they're worth.

Thanks for the thoughts. I do understand the difference between the indulgent food and eating good food. I simply meant that I didn't want to miss out on enjoying some yummy stuff that isn't a part of my everyday life. Obviously, I do value a healthy lifestyle and seeing myself fitting into a smaller size or I wouldn't have hesitated to just eat however I wanted on the trip. At least I'm trying to have foresight and plan ahead. Which goes hand-in-hand with what I was saying about dampening my husband's good time, I just mean if I have a plan going into the trip then I won't have to take time at every meal to get out my phone and look up nutritional info and and we can get our meals then get on with having fun in the parks. It's not an excuse, I just want to be courteous to my husband, who - as Charlie Sheen would say - has one speed, one gear "GO" when it comes to Disney trips.

The weight I've lost has been over the course of 3 weeks, 21 days. I went from a very sedentary lifestyle with a high-calorie diet to a 1200 calorie a day, working out 4-5 times a week lifestyle. Yes, that number on the scale is going down drastically, along with my measurements, but I've made drastic changes. If I don't have that excitement and pride to keep me motivated, then this journey just got a lot longer.

I know that the number won't always be down on the scale, but I think that I've worked very hard to accomplish the loss that I have achieved, and I'm committed to this lifestyle because I value my health - and that isn't going away just because I want to figure out how to loosen up on my honeymoon without counteracting the work I've done.

LOL - yeah, I'm definitely not that extreme! But I always welcome a workout buddy - someone has to turn off the treadmill when I finally do the inevitable and take a face-plant on it! :laugh: