Dieting On Vacation

Personally? I would probably bump myself up to maintenance and just enjoy myself! That being said, if you feel like you'd enjoy yourself just as much keeping your current goal, I don't think anyone would really need to question it!

That's a personal decision, but don't make it based on what your family will say. Is it really going to be that noticeable that you're eating a couple hundred less calories?

But for sure, if YOU want to just enjoy it, by all means raise your goal (or find more ways to be active so you can eat more).

We've got a vacation coming up and I am going to do my best to stay within my calorie limits. I'm planning to do a lot of outdoor activities and hope that will help keep things balanced in the event that I eat too much.

We go to disney a lot so what I do is first I don't add extra calories back just because I'm walking all day, I don't eat junk snacks like ice cream, candy etc... If I eat any snacks at all I do fruit, veggie, yogurt, or sugar free frozen fruit bar if I'm buying something in the park otherwise I bring something in with me. I drink water not sodas or sports drinks. I pretty much stick to my normal as much as possible for any breakfast or lunch (usually lunch is part of a salad or a shared meal with my granddaughter, or even off the kids menu for better portion control but I'll let myself have a nice dinner without appetizers or desserts. I still pick things that aren't like fried chicken but if I want swordfish and it comes with all the blah blah stuff it comes with I order it as it is since it's vacation. It's not perfect but I'm not giving up vacations because I'm reducing and I'm sooooo over having to face a scale that has just jumped back up in the wrong direction that this works for me. I'm not worried about loosing weight on vacation but staying where I'm at until I get back home.