Vacation...

We have a vacation coming up and I am not planning to track my food and drink. It's been a lifestyle change for me so I think I will still make good choices on what I choose to eat. There's a lot of stuff I ate before that I really no longer care to eat and often give me an upset stomach. I do want to get some workouts in. Unfortunately where we are staying does not have a fitness facility (I can use one at their hotel 3 miles away but we will not have a vehicle) but they do have TV's and DVD player in the units. So I will be grabbing a couple of my shorter workout DVD's and hope to squeeze in a few workouts that way! I don't want to loose the momentum I have going.

You need to go and look at the menus for every possible restaurant you might visit before you go. Then I make a list of the type of meals you want o have while you are there and see how they measure up. Hopefully you have learned to say no to things like fired food, and other diet killers. Drinks are usually the worst, so stick to water and vodka! You made a lifestyle change, be sure to try to pick those foods that you know. Relax.

Don't stress about it. Part of enjoying life is actually enjoining food. I really don't want to live a life where I can't eat whatever I want one day.
I "gained" 4lbs while on vacation. It was all water weight. After three days I was back at my regular weight and kept losing.

Relax, enjoy your vacation, have fun!!

Vacation is a vacation. I have a 7 day Caribbean cruise in a month. Although I'll try and control as much as I can, there will be indulgences. My last 4-day cruise, my booze bill was over $500 - that's about 80 beers or roughly 20 beers a day :laugh: not to mention the buffets. But I did do a lot of walking at the ports. I think I was 6 lbs heavier when I got back, but dropped over half of that in a first few days, so most of it was just water weight. It was worth it regardless.

I think you should enjoy your vacation. If you are worried about gaining weight, then walk everywhere that you can. Don't take a taxi if you can realistically walk to you destination. Walk or bike any trails that might be around. Walk the beach or around town. Take any tours that might be available. You can keep off the weight and enrich your senses at the same time!

Or...you can just do what I do and say to hell with it all and pick back up where you left off when you get home. When I went to Florida a few years ago I was eating more and I actually lost a little weight. I think it was all the swimming in the pool I was doing.

Ya, just enjoy yourself. Vacation is a time to enjoy life and forget about your worries, not obsess over things. I'm going to Hawaii in a month. Last time I was there I gained 10 lbs in 7 days, mostly because of drinking and a whole lot of white rice lol. Even so I exercised pretty much everyday, just fun stuff really; surfing, snorkeling, etc. Am I worried about my upcoming trip? Not a chance. I plan on thoroughly enjoying white rice, beer, Mai Tai's, and loads of seafood, etc. :drinker: :drinker: :drinker:

Hey! I went to Jamaica in August to an all inclusive and am going to Mexico in about 10 days to another all inclusive.

Here's what I always tried to do:
1. Get some form of exercise in. One day my husband and I ran on the beach in jamaica. It was gorgeous, and hard. Other days we used teh fitness center and even though we were on the fourth floor we toko the stairs every time.

2. Eat as healthy as you can at breakfast and lunch. You probably haven't started drinking yet so you can ekep it in check. Most resorts have an omelete station you can request made with egg whites. I did always let myself have a treat at breakfast, but I would also have fruit and healthy stuff too.

3. Try to fill up on salads and veggies. Especially at the buffets. It's so hard.

Everyone says enjoy it - but everyone is also different. For me, I can't stomach being a complete glutton for 5-7 days and then coming home. I enjoyed my vacation immensely and ate what I wanted within reason.

Nothing tastes as good as fit feels. Those pounds CAN be a b**** to get off!

....I'm afraid of my progress completely coming to a standstill or being undone by this trip.

Any advice/things you do on vacation to avoid blowing it? Thanks!

It's about what you're doing 80% - 90% of the time...not 10% of the time. Let me ask you this...if someone eats like **** most of the time and doesn't exercise or really do anything except sit around wallowing in the ****ty diet...if they were to take a few days and eat some broccoli and go for a job would they suddenly healthy and fit? Of course they wouldn't...it works the other way too.

I choose the "best" thing or "least evil" options at each meal and then allow myself 1 splurge item per day. I am more likely to choose fruit as a side and/or maybe get breakfast for dinner if others choose a place that is less healthy than I would have chosen.

Active trips are awesome. Definitely take full advantage of the gym and pool on your trip, and you should be golden!

Last week my husband and I got married out in Colorado and we hiked a total of 11 miles during our short trip. While that's not a TON, it definitely helped counteract the wedding cake and other indulgent food we consumed. I went over on my calories 3 out of 4 days, but I only gained 0.4 lb. Which fell off along with 2 more lb the day after we returned.