Dieting and Vacations

I'm not a lady, so apologies if my input isn't wanted, but I find eating one meal a day on holiday to be the way to maintain my weight.

I take diet breaks on holidays where I don't log and do eat whatever I want.

I am also a whole lot more active than usual on holidays. I usually try to include a couple "events" in my holiday. Most recently, we were on holiday for a month, and during that time I included two decent hikes and two long distance cycling events. Plus some training for all of that on the days in between.

I went on my honeymoon to an all-inclusive in Cancun in February. Ate what I wanted, when I wanted, and drank quite a few beers. Gained a few pounds, came right back on plan on our return. It did slow my overall loss for February but I don't regret a thing. I'm in it for the long haul.

I'm on vacation right now, and I'm aiming for maintenance and eyeballing portions. I may be off by a pound or two by the end of 10 days, but I probably won't need to buy any new pants

I have been on my journey for 3.5 years and have had a number of holidays in that period.
I tend to give myself the room to be in maintenance during that time and logged to the best of my ability. No way I am losing my streak!
Generally I managed to stay on maintenance with a lot of exercise and being careful in choice. My worst gain over a 4.5 week trip (both work and a subsequent holiday) was 1kg, which was gone three days later. Most of it was water retention due to the long haul flight. In part this water retention is due to food being very salty in the airline food, this to allow you to taste something at high altitude as otherwise it would be even more bland than it already is. Plus flying seems to have people hold on the water more than usual anyway. Not sure why but honestly the difference after three days is significant.

Do note that I am quite good at the guesstimate game (laboratory background) and because I still eat out on a regular basis for work and private I have learned to choose reasonably low cal. I never brought a scale or measuring cups but in all honesty it would not be a bad move.

I used to just not log and let it all hang out, but I seem to find it very hard to start logging again after a break, plus if I'm not logging, I worry about food. So instead, I'm now logging through my holiday trips, but quite loosely. I'm an eyeballer anyway, and while away I'm accepting a lower level of accuracy. But I'm still making an entry for everything I eat. It keeps me in the habit and stops me fretting.

It's clear from the responses that different people prefer different approaches in this.