Going to Disneyland. How to resist binging?
IronBatMaiden
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My birthday is tomorrow and to celebrate, I'm going to Disneyland on Saturday (I have to work on my actual birthday)!!
I know I'm gonna have a cheat day that day because it's Disneyland, but I'm wondering, does anyone out there have any tips for cheat days on how not to binge on a cheat day?
I know I'm gonna have a cheat day that day because it's Disneyland, but I'm wondering, does anyone out there have any tips for cheat days on how not to binge on a cheat day?
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Pick one meal to enjoy and decide early what you are going to have for the entire day. Eat a few meals at home where you can control the calories (like breakfast and dinner).0
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Also, it's one day. Just don't eat like it's your last day on earth and it won't derail you.0
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I go to Disney World once a month, they'er are tons of healthy foods, eat normal like you would at home and have 1 or 2 treats!! Enjoy!! You will be walking a lot.0
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Don't eat everything in sight just because it's a cheat day. If you REALLY, really want something, have it. Telling yourself you can have whatever you want and then asking yourself if you actually really do want it does amazing things psychologically. Focus on things you don't normally get or have access to, i.e. real treats. Save your calories for the most delicious things available, not just whatever is around. Maybe tuck a protein bar or some nuts in your purse for snacking when you're waiting in line or trying to save your calories for a yummy meal.0
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If you really don't want to eat a lot of Disney food (and I'm so with you there!), eat before you leave and bring a lunch. That means one meal in the parks...or you could leave and grab something else.
I've made a bodrillion trips to Disney without eating their food. A friend of mine and I do it a lot. We are Disney's worst nightmare - discount passes and we don't eat their food or buy their stuff, lol. We just take up room in the parks.
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If you really don't want to eat a lot of Disney food (and I'm so with you there!), eat before you leave and bring a lunch. That means one meal in the parks...or you could leave and grab something else.
I've made a bodrillion trips to Disney without eating their food. A friend of mine and I do it a lot. We are Disney's worst nightmare - discount passes and we don't eat their food or buy their stuff, lol. We just take up room in the parks.
Who wants to lug food around the parks and also every time you leave you pay $18 (for parking) unless you have annual passes, which we do and we don't leave the parks. I just learn to eat within my calories, because you know life.
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The food at Disney is pricey. The cost alone will likely keep you from going too overboard with multiple trips to food stands/restaurants. I'd pretty much do as usmcmp wrote and pick what meal was going to be my biggie and then eat around it. If you are going to a sit down restaurant, the menus are online. And you can find lists online (disboards is a good source) of what all of the snack spots serve/sell.0
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You guys have given some great tips. Thank you all.
So I'll eat breakfast at home and make sure I stay within my calories, then when I go to the park, eat as healthy as possible for lunch, and dinner will be my treat meal.0 -
Yeah, food is expensive. Buy a meal. Pay $12 for it. Eat it and keep walking.0
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Yep.0
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If you really don't want to eat a lot of Disney food (and I'm so with you there!), eat before you leave and bring a lunch. That means one meal in the parks...or you could leave and grab something else.
I've made a bodrillion trips to Disney without eating their food. A friend of mine and I do it a lot. We are Disney's worst nightmare - discount passes and we don't eat their food or buy their stuff, lol. We just take up room in the parks.
Who wants to lug food around the parks and also every time you leave you pay $18 (for parking) unless you have annual passes, which we do and we don't leave the parks. I just learn to eat within my calories, because you know life.
Me, lol. I like to lug food food around. It might not be for everyone.
I can't get nutritional info out of Disney. If you do, you're pretty lucky! They won't give it to us.0 -
If you really don't want to eat a lot of Disney food (and I'm so with you there!), eat before you leave and bring a lunch. That means one meal in the parks...or you could leave and grab something else.
I've made a bodrillion trips to Disney without eating their food. A friend of mine and I do it a lot. We are Disney's worst nightmare - discount passes and we don't eat their food or buy their stuff, lol. We just take up room in the parks.
Who wants to lug food around the parks and also every time you leave you pay $18 (for parking) unless you have annual passes, which we do and we don't leave the parks. I just learn to eat within my calories, because you know life.
Me, lol. I like to lug food food around. It might not be for everyone.
I can't get nutritional info out of Disney. If you do, you're pretty lucky! They won't give it to us.
But to be fair, they do have some dishes that are pretty healthy. For example, there's a veggie sandwich with a mushroom as the patty and they have fresh fruit.0 -
IronBatMaiden wrote: »If you really don't want to eat a lot of Disney food (and I'm so with you there!), eat before you leave and bring a lunch. That means one meal in the parks...or you could leave and grab something else.
I've made a bodrillion trips to Disney without eating their food. A friend of mine and I do it a lot. We are Disney's worst nightmare - discount passes and we don't eat their food or buy their stuff, lol. We just take up room in the parks.
Who wants to lug food around the parks and also every time you leave you pay $18 (for parking) unless you have annual passes, which we do and we don't leave the parks. I just learn to eat within my calories, because you know life.
Me, lol. I like to lug food food around. It might not be for everyone.
I can't get nutritional info out of Disney. If you do, you're pretty lucky! They won't give it to us.
But to be fair, they do have some dishes that are pretty healthy. For example, there's a veggie sandwich with a mushroom as the patty and they have fresh fruit.
There is some fruit. I counted the grapes once. I paid about $4 for twenty-some (I think it was 23) grapes. That's just too ridiculous for me. I will not pay them that kind of money. I view it the same as the movies. The price is just too high. I'll bring my own.
I don't refuse to buy the food because I think it's unhealthy. A lot of it is, but that's not why I started. I just won't pay what they charge!
Like I said to the other poster, I can't get nutritional info out of them. If you guys are getting it, please tell me how.0 -
If you really don't want to eat a lot of Disney food (and I'm so with you there!), eat before you leave and bring a lunch. That means one meal in the parks...or you could leave and grab something else.
I've made a bodrillion trips to Disney without eating their food. A friend of mine and I do it a lot. We are Disney's worst nightmare - discount passes and we don't eat their food or buy their stuff, lol. We just take up room in the parks.
Who wants to lug food around the parks and also every time you leave you pay $18 (for parking) unless you have annual passes, which we do and we don't leave the parks. I just learn to eat within my calories, because you know life.
Me, lol. I like to lug food food around. It might not be for everyone.
I can't get nutritional info out of Disney. If you do, you're pretty lucky! They won't give it to us.
I don't either, I just estimate and do pretty good at it. 0 -
I always bring a couple of snacks with me in a small backpack as well as a water bottle with a built in filter. My point was also going to be that their prices are so ridiculous that I can't imagine actually doing what I'd call "binging" there. A meal and a couple of treats, maybe, but out and out binging? No way. And one day of having a few extra treats isn't going to undo your success to date anyway.0
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IronBatMaiden wrote: »If you really don't want to eat a lot of Disney food (and I'm so with you there!), eat before you leave and bring a lunch. That means one meal in the parks...or you could leave and grab something else.
I've made a bodrillion trips to Disney without eating their food. A friend of mine and I do it a lot. We are Disney's worst nightmare - discount passes and we don't eat their food or buy their stuff, lol. We just take up room in the parks.
Who wants to lug food around the parks and also every time you leave you pay $18 (for parking) unless you have annual passes, which we do and we don't leave the parks. I just learn to eat within my calories, because you know life.
Me, lol. I like to lug food food around. It might not be for everyone.
I can't get nutritional info out of Disney. If you do, you're pretty lucky! They won't give it to us.
But to be fair, they do have some dishes that are pretty healthy. For example, there's a veggie sandwich with a mushroom as the patty and they have fresh fruit.
There is some fruit. I counted the grapes once. I paid about $4 for twenty-some (I think it was 23) grapes. That's just too ridiculous for me. I will not pay them that kind of money. I view it the same as the movies. The price is just too high. I'll bring my own.
Like I said to the other poster, I can't get nutritional info out of them. If you guys are getting it, please tell me how.
It's Disney, paying for that, just like anywhere else you go. I don't think the prices are to bad. Plus the fact we are annual pass holders we get discounts.0 -
If you really don't want to eat a lot of Disney food (and I'm so with you there!), eat before you leave and bring a lunch. That means one meal in the parks...or you could leave and grab something else.
I've made a bodrillion trips to Disney without eating their food. A friend of mine and I do it a lot. We are Disney's worst nightmare - discount passes and we don't eat their food or buy their stuff, lol. We just take up room in the parks.
Who wants to lug food around the parks and also every time you leave you pay $18 (for parking) unless you have annual passes, which we do and we don't leave the parks. I just learn to eat within my calories, because you know life.
Me, lol. I like to lug food food around. It might not be for everyone.
I can't get nutritional info out of Disney. If you do, you're pretty lucky! They won't give it to us.
I don't either, I just estimate and do pretty good at it.
How do you know? I'm not saying you aren't good at it. I'm sure you can estimate very well in general! But how do you know if you're doing it well when there is no label or anything to compare it to? Do you just eat there a lit and not gain weight, so you know you're doing okay?0 -
I don't trust that the Kitchens are clean in Disneyland. When I went to Florida there was a giant mouse roaming around in the restaurant! (cough).0
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I go to Disneyland once every three to six months. My strategy is to not worry about it too much.
If you will really *enjoy* it, go for it. If you won't *really* enjoy a high-calorie choice, why bother making that choice? There are other, lower calorie, choices available.
Disney food options have *vastly* improved over the years.0 -
If you really don't want to eat a lot of Disney food (and I'm so with you there!), eat before you leave and bring a lunch. That means one meal in the parks...or you could leave and grab something else.
I've made a bodrillion trips to Disney without eating their food. A friend of mine and I do it a lot. We are Disney's worst nightmare - discount passes and we don't eat their food or buy their stuff, lol. We just take up room in the parks.
Who wants to lug food around the parks and also every time you leave you pay $18 (for parking) unless you have annual passes, which we do and we don't leave the parks. I just learn to eat within my calories, because you know life.
Me, lol. I like to lug food food around. It might not be for everyone.
I can't get nutritional info out of Disney. If you do, you're pretty lucky! They won't give it to us.
I don't either, I just estimate and do pretty good at it.
How do you know? I'm not saying you aren't good at it. I'm sure you can estimate very well in general! But how do you know if you're doing it well when there is no label or anything to compare it to? Do you just eat there a lit and not gain weight, so you know you're doing okay?
Usually I go by what I weigh the following day, I usually don't gain weight, I have lost weight several times and have gained weight also, usually because I wanted to indulged. Either way it doesn't bother me. I had fun with my hubby and that's the important thing to me.0 -
slideaway1 wrote: »I don't trust that the Kitchens are clean in Disneyland. When I went to Florida there was a giant mouse roaming around in the restaurant! (cough).
I love that giant mouse. 0 -
slideaway1 wrote: »I don't trust that the Kitchens are clean in Disneyland. When I went to Florida there was a giant mouse roaming around in the restaurant! (cough).
I love that giant mouse.
I see what you did there.0 -
IronBatMaiden wrote: »slideaway1 wrote: »I don't trust that the Kitchens are clean in Disneyland. When I went to Florida there was a giant mouse roaming around in the restaurant! (cough).
I love that giant mouse.
I see what you did there.
Good for you. Feel free to use that brilliant joke to impress your friends and family on your birthday.
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For nutrition values, I estimate comparables. Cheesecake Factory values can't be that much lower than Disney values.
or I estimate by ingredients and call it "good enough for rock and roll". My world won't end if my guesses are off by a few hundred calories. It's a setback of a few days, at worst, and non-conclusive when you factor in sodium, sleep, water retention, steps, etc.
I log more so I have a record of my choices and data to affect my decision about how much enjoyment I want out of any given food choice, relative to other choices I have already made.0 -
I live in Anaheim and go pretty often. As others have said - If you are spending all day at the park, you are going to walk a lot so I wouldn't worry too much. If you want some good choices, personally I like Bengal Barbeque across from the Jungle Cruise. They have grilled meat and veggie skewers. Also although technically not allowed, no one will say anything if you bring in some snacks (they will search your bag but they are only looking for weapons and bombs and stuff and usually they just feel the pockets instead of actually looking at everything). No one will take away a kind bar if you have one in your purse. My favorite treat that is really not all that bad is cotton candy. Mostly air but I feel like I'm being naughty.
Now I want a churro.0 -
I can resist the churros. Lol it's the ice cream and rice Krispy treats and other baked goods that get me.0
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Disneyland? Just looking at the prices would do a good job of curbing my appetite.0
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I remember eating loads of jalapeno pretzels whilst walking around? God knows what they are, we don't really have them in the UK. I also enjoyed many giant Turkey legs as I walked around Epcot and MGM (there is a picture if you click my profile). It tasted more like Ham though? I went to a brilliant Buffet In Magic Kingdom and ate at least 4000 cals but I can not remember the name. I only really drank water all day (no soda) and didn't really eat Ice creams etc when everyone else did because they don't really do anything for me.0
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IronBatMaiden wrote: »I can resist the churros. Lol it's the ice cream and rice Krispy treats and other baked goods that get me.
So have them - without drama, without self-recrimination. But have them *mindfully*. Make time to sit down and really taste each bite. Look at the baked good and say to yourself, "Okay, that (cinnamon roll) is (using the Cinnabon roll as a comparable) about 1000 calories. I am going to enjoy 1000 calories worth of cinnamon roll (or 500 calories, and leave half on the table)." Then do so.
Seriously, an *excess* of *10,000* calories - with no activity offset - is still only 3 pounds. Something you want to do every day? No. As a once a month/quarter treat? Not that big a deal (and probably offset by low calorie days, especially while generally eating at a deficit). On maintenance? Be mindful of it, and do some activity and calorie offset.0
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