How do you handle vacation eating?

Hey,
I tend to let my hair down but eat in moderation. If you are still doing your exercises, I wouldnt worry too much. Its your holiday, enjoy it!

I Indulge on seafood because I can't really get the good stuff at home. I would just limit the fried stuff and try to eat more steamed/grilled and maybe stick to 1 tropical drink per day, because those can add up with calories quick.

Have a great time!

It's vacation. I usually just enjoy the crap out of it and over indulge like a complete slob.
Just don't let your vacation habits turn into your everyday way of doing things. Get back in the game after vaca!

Hope you have a good time.

Hey,
I tend to let my hair down but eat in moderation. If you are still doing your exercises, I wouldnt worry too much. Its your holiday, enjoy it!

This.

I tend to just try to eat in moderation. When I go on vacation, we usually rent a house and grill so I eat lots of grilled chicken, grilled fish, grilled veggies. If you are going out to dinner, when I was in Disney World, I ordered a lot of grilled chicken salads, things like that. Try not to stress, just enjoy yourself!

I just had a break 3 weeks ago, and by logging my exercise as well I could see I was actually not really over my allowance even though I was having a cooked breakfast. One day we didn'thave lunch as we were full, but did on other days and had some drinks:drinker:

Switch your calories to maintenance and as others have said avoid those trpoical drinks (you know fruit juice is calorific, so stick to spirit with a slimline mixer, or have wone or beer - but get small beers if you can).

Its only 4 days, be good before you go and when you get back and it will make no difference (or not enough to be bothersome)

When I'm on vacation I don't work out and eat whatever I want. It's vacation. It won't kill you. Enjoy yourself and get back on track when you get home. Everyone needs to let loose every once in a while and enjoy life.

On vacation, I just go off the rails. Vacation is about leaving stress behind. No work, no counting, just hedonism. You'll be back to real life soon enough. ENJOY!

I'll typically not worry too much about it, especially if I'm still doing some exercise. Having just gotten back from a trip, I can say that I tried to eat a decent breakfast and sometimes lunch and I also brought some healthy snacks that were easily portable. The two that I used the most were Quest bars and homemade trail mix (almonds, sunflower seeds and dried cranberries). For the trail mix, I just measured it out in to baggies before leaving home and that way it was easy for me to throw a bag in to my bag/purse for the day. Since they are both pretty dense snacks, it helped keep my appetite at bay until meal times and therefore avoiding junk snacks (which were everywhere - it was Disney World ).

It's practice for how you are going to handle moderating your choices for the rest of your life.

So, I don't worry about having a deficit. I eat what I want, but I try to be mindful of my choices. If I know I want a lavish dessert, I have a salad with my dinner instead of french fries. I drink water and stay away from soda and juices so I have room for a drink or two at night.

Make good choices and be mindful, but don't be afraid to indulge a little too. You're going to have to work through situations like this forever, so practice now.

Oh man, please enjoy yourself there.There will be plenty of salad when you get back. Reign it in on your way home, plan a workout or something to get you back in the swing of things.

I just did this last weekend. I tried to log pretty much everyday, but didn't really limit what I ate. I ate over my calories and gained a little, but got back on track when I came home. Just don't freak out about it, and you should be fine.

I do want to add, though, raw oysters are pretty good for you and also pretty much the most delicious thing ever. Maybe try limiting the fried, but eating dozens and dozens of the raw! Jealous!!

During my first vacation while "dieting", I was very careful. I didn't specifically count points (was doing WW at the time) but I did write everything down mentally guesstimate to make sure I was in the ballpark. I was also very conscious of my choices and made sure I got a ton of activity in. And in the end, I managed to lose 2 pounds! That said, we walked pretty much everywhere (Williamsburg VA area) so on top of gym time I was burning a huge amount of calories which I'm sure made a big difference.

The last couple of vacations, I've decided to just let it be. I'm still conscious of my eating choices but I don't keep track of everything. I make sure I get in 30-60 minutes of dedicated exercise a day and try to do something else active if I can. And I allow myself one meal/evening to just let loose - drink lots, eat lots and have fun! I've always been up a few pounds after these vacations but it's mostly water weight from restaurant food and that last blast drinking and it goes away in a few weeks time as long as you get right back on track.

HAHA! I'm going the beach for 3 days this weekend. I am bringing my own snacks and breakfast, will be going to CHOW DOWN on seafood I'm also doing a 30 day squat challenge. Sending you a FR

i often go on business trips and in the past, it meant PIG OUT time. and i would be paid to eat junk food and be alone to do it and not have to hide it from people! yay! what a disaster.
ive since changed all that, am doing p90x/insanity hybrid, and am eating clean, and on the first trip i took since changing my life around, i was very worried that id screw it up by eating crap food.
i did a few things to control the situation
1) shakeology. i brought a portion for every day i was away and id literally just put it in my shaker cup and add water and that was my breakfast. one meal down.
2) i brought lots of protein bars, and pre-measured out portion of nuts for me to eat as snacks instead of stopping places and eating muffins and donuts and sandwhiches and chips and pizza etc
3) i have been so afraid of restaurants because you just never know what they have hidden in their plates. for example, you can order a healthy salad and then find out you just ate about 1000 calories without realizing it, THINK you made a smart healthy choice, not be full, and then eat even more later that day because you think you ate less than you did. You can order an egg white omelet with vegetables and not know that a lot of places add pancake batter, cream, or butter to it so the eggs are nice and fluffy! and again you think you had a nice healthy meal. so now, as much as possible, i will ask how things are prepared and give strict instructions like say not to cook it in oil or butter, dont add any cream, dressing on the side, meat only grilled, no added stuff. but honestly, sometimes it gets really embarrassing to do all that if you're out with certain people. so my other trick was to go to subways. now... im not really a fan of subways. i dont crave it. i dont find the food to be awesome. BUT, with subways you know what the nutritional value of your food is, and you can get a very filling meal for about 400 calories, and you can still log your food choices. so in my 4 day business trip, i went to subways 4 times, just because i didnt have the option of cooking my own food and knowing exactly what i was putting in it. a lot of restaurant chains post the nutritional value of their food online so its a good idea to check it out and choose wisely.

now its gotten to the point where i just dont feel its worth it to have that 600 calorie dessert with 40g of sugar and 15g of fat. the pleasure from the food lasts 5 minutes, and then i need to do a very high intensity workout for about an hour to burn those calories. but the sugar and fat is already in my system and causing a cycle effect of more cravings and sugar levels spiking and the wrong enzymes being released to make the cycle continue!

its hard!