Do you think its strict if I count calories on holiday?

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  • taziarj
    taziarj Posts: 243 Member
    I have been on two recent vacations, the first was a trip to Myrtle Beach at a resort that had free wi-fi. I modified my carlorie goals to a maintenance intake. I logged everything I ate for the 9 days we were away. I did real well and only gained about a pound. It dropped off quickly. No biggie.

    This most recent trip was not as successful. We went on a five night cruise followed by 10 nights at different resorts around Florida. On the cruise, logging in and tracking was not possible (no free internet access). While we had wifi at the other resorts in Florida, not logging from the cruise fed over to that part of the trip also. So I didn't log anything for the entire days. BIG MISTAKE! I came back and discovered I had gained 14.6lbs. WOW. That is almost a pound a day! Obviously it was mostly water weight as I have dropped 8.8lbs in the week since we have been back, but it was still rather disheartening.

    We are going on another land trip followed by a cruise later this year. I do plan to maintain a log on MFP while on land but obviously I won't be able to log in while on the cruise, but I do plan to keep a written food diary. Even if I don't have calorie counts, it will keep me more accountable with what I am eating and it won't be a big pigout session.
  • Pebble321
    Pebble321 Posts: 6,423 Member
    For people who are travelling without internet access - if you have a smart phone you can still log your food (you just open up the app offline), but you only have access to a limited selection of the database. I've done this when I'm on a plane - so I've been able to log what I've eaten, although I've had to make a few substitutions.

    This is what I would do if I was on a holiday with no internet and wanted to keep logging. I'd just pick something similar (like find a pasta dish with a tomato based sauce that might be close in calories, for example) and enter that. Or add "quick calories" to give me a rough overview of what the day has been like, you can always add notes in the food diary if you want to keep a bit more info.

    Or, I might just decide that it is time to have a logging break and see how I do without MFP (though that's hard to imagine at this point after more than 500 days of logging in a row!)

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