Your strategy when on holiday

My first time going all-inc this year and for 2 weeks! There is no way I'm going to PIG OUT, but I won't be eating like a budgie either. I'm planning on going to the gym and/or running in the morning before brekkie. Breakfast can be poached eggs, cooked hams and fruit (yum). Spend a lot of the day doing watersports & swimming. Salad for lunch, and loads of it! but minus the mayo/creamy stuff I usually love. Going to drink plenty of booze, and dinner can be steak/fish/chicken/seafood with plenty of veg & salad which I love!

I am a bit scared of over-indulging, but am determined to hit the balance of not missing out on any fun but still being careful!

My mantra will be DO NOT FILL GUILTY! It's only 2 weeks!

1) Weigh myself on the morning of departure and take a note of it

2) Forget counting calories & logging food

3) Eat crap

4) Swim

5) Drink alcohol

6) Have at least one bag of fish and chips

7) Have ice cream walking along the beach

8) Walk loads

9) Create memories that last longer than the extra lb's I might gain during my holiday

10) Weigh myself the day after I get back from holiday

This is a lifestyle and life changes, I have spent money and invested time on organising my holiday and I intend to enjoy every second and every mouthful of food whilst I'm away..... 7 days away in not going to undo 20 months of hard (but very pleasurable) work.....

xXx

#9 is pretty much the key.

Enjoy it.

Vacation is meant for fun and relaxation.

I went to Disney/Orlando last December. I enjoyed myself and had fun. I did log, but it wasn't in any way accurate, and I didn't care. I was 'mindful' of my food choices, but that didn't stop me from having something like and ice cream covered brownie at Seaworld either. I just didn't go crazy.

After all the walking and and such, I came home 4 lbs lighter.

I'm off to Disney in Sept. I'm not going to worry about my calories, i want to enjoy myself. Plus with all the walking i expect to be doing, hopefully it won't cause too much of a gain. But if it does, it does.

I wouldn't worry about it. I'm going to Europe for 2 weeks and I'm not going to log anything. I'm not going to overdo it, either, but I do plan on trying local dishes. It helps that we are staying with friends and won't be eating out all the time. Hopefully we'll be doing a lot of walking too because I am also taking a break from running while on vacation.

I'll be going to Orlando for a week in October with my husband. This will be our last pre-baby vacation. I plan on working my butt off to look as hot as I possibly can when October comes around, I plan on getting a Brazilian wax a couple days before we leave, and I plan on eating whatever the *kitten* I want.

I'm not going to eat until I feel ill or purposefully choose high-calorie foods just for the hell of it, but I have no plans to log while I'm on vacation. Yes, I'll pack on a bunch of water weight and maybe even 1-2 lbs of actual fat, but I can shed that in the 2-3 weeks afterward. No problemo. We'll only have a small fridge and a microwave in the room, so we'll be consuming most, if not all, meals out. I'll be damned if I'm going to stress about going over my calories on vacation. You gotta live, people! A week isn't going to make or break you.

I do plan on bringing my pull-up bar and my 20-lb dumbbells, and I'm sure I'll feel some guilt about skipping an entire week of lifting, but I suspect these things won't even be used. By then, a week's break from lifting will do me some good. I'll be doing plenty of walking at the parks, and plenty of nookie in the hotel (gotta put that Brazilian to use!), so I'm not too concerned about it.

I'm hoping to be at maintenance by then anyway, so a couple weeks of cutting after we get back won't hurt me.

If you can't stick with your goals whole you are away from home, regardless of the reason (I.e., vacation, business trip, etc.), then you haven't changed your " lifestyle". How can you really expect to succeed?

It really depends on what your goals are. Plus, goals change.
As for lifestyle changes, you really have to look at the bigger picture. Are a couple of weeks out of the year (vacation, holidays, parties, etc) really going to have such a huge impact? No. It's not like they're going to undo all of your hard work. So, on those days, you enjoy yourself eating at maintenance, or maybe even a little over. And then you just get right back to doing what you were doing afterwards. Those few weeks or days are a drop in the bucket compared to the rest of your life.

Like I said, when I was on vacation, I was mindful, but I didn't deny myself anything. I didn't go completely off the deep end and go overboard. But I wasn't 100% accurate either, and that's okay. It's fine to have days like that every once in a while. You can't enjoy life being super anal about every little thing. :flowerforyou:

For those lucky enough to have time off and going somewhere nice, what strategies have you considered, which have you opted for and why?

Also, anyone want to share the benefit of their experience and what they'd do differently next time?

Enjoy it and not worry much about calories.

With that said though, I will usually skip a meal and a snack per day so I can eat something tasty that day for whatever we have all set up.

Just got back from a week on the lake. Ate like a king almost every night...came back the same weight.
Mostly because I was active alot, and I would skip BF or lunch and a snack just by being too busy

I don't have a "strategy" while on holiday. I eat whatever I want, as much as I want, and move on.

I'm on a Disney vacation as I write this. My question for others: how can you call your "weight loss journey" a "lifestyle change" if you "forget about logging and calories" while you are on vacation? It doesn't make sense, the two are mutually exclusive. If you are changing the way you eat and exercise, then it shouldn't matter if you are home or if you are on vacation. I'm trying to incorporate my changes while here. There is a fitness center at Wilderness Lodge, I'm using it every morning. I get up earlier than the family, do my workout (they have Mickey Mouse weights!), then go off to a park for the day.

If you can't stick with your goals whole you are away from home, regardless of the reason (I.e., vacation, business trip, etc.), then you haven't changed your " lifestyle". How can you really expect to succeed?

I'm going to eat what I want, not everything in sight.

My "lifestyle change" includes being able to judge and control my portions with or without measuring cups or apps, or worrying about what my food may have been cooked with.

I'd rather remember the fun I have on a vacation, not the time spent worrying about what I may or may not be eating. (see #9 in the post above).