Almost Disney Time - Can I avoid regression???

Good morning lovely MFPers! As some of you know, when I started out 3 weeks ago, one of my mini goals has been to shed as many pounds as possible before we hit the road for our belated honeymoon. We are now at 5 days out from our trip and I've lost about 16 lbs. I'm really looking forward to the trip - but that is also accompanied with some anxiety now about counteracting all of the hard work that I have done. We booked our trip with the Disney Deluxe Dining plan, with the main reason being that we plan to go to some of the signature restaurants and character experiences (I get to have dinner in Cinderella's castle!) and those places require 2 dining credits. The way it's set up, we each get three meal credits and two snacks each day. I know that there are healthy options for snacks and at sit-down restaurants, but I'm pretty sure that, for convenience during the daytime, we'll be doing a lot of "quick service" which is basically food stands with burgers, fries, ribs, etc...

I'm just very worried about either overdoing it with junk or on the opposite end of the spectrum, being so obsessed that I'll sell myself short of enjoying some good food and possibly dampening my husband's good time on our honeymoon. I know we'll be active throughout the entire trip, but I don't know how to guess how many cals I will be burning?

I actually couldn't sleep for thinking about this last night. Please give me some advice you dear sweet people! :ohwell:

"being so obsessed that I'll sell myself short of enjoying some good food and possibly dampening my husband's good time on our honeymoon."

Couple things here...you're still equating enjoying life with eating 'some good food'. The food you've been eating is 'good', the food you're talking about is an indulgence. You need to separate the idea of food = fun. Don't get me wrong, I'm a hard-core eater...love the like of Tru, Trotter's, Alinea...but know there's a price to pay BEFORE I go. Best of luck breaking that psychological connection. Best bet is to remember how you feel when the weight is lower on the scale, or the dress size goes down. Does that trump the ice cream cone? Until it does, you WILL NOT keep your weight off. Secondly, if your husband's good time depends on your eating calorically dense, nutritient free foods...something isn't making sense. Don't use him as an excuse.

Secondly, from you post it sounds like you've dropped 15 or so pounds in 10 days? If so, you cannot expect to keep that weight off. Unfortunately, unless you have burnt yourself into an average of a 5250 calorie deficit per day, much of that weight is water weight. That's good, because your body is getting used to eating healthier. BUT, it's bad when you go back to the 'old way', because your body will retain a large portion of that water again, and you'll see the scale jump quickly. Just be sure to understand this dynamic, and don't get into a frenzy of excitement / disappointment based just on fluid changes.

That's my thoughts...for what they're worth.

Thanks for the thoughts. I do understand the difference between the indulgent food and eating good food. I simply meant that I didn't want to miss out on enjoying some yummy stuff that isn't a part of my everyday life. Obviously, I do value a healthy lifestyle and seeing myself fitting into a smaller size or I wouldn't have hesitated to just eat however I wanted on the trip. At least I'm trying to have foresight and plan ahead. Which goes hand-in-hand with what I was saying about dampening my husband's good time, I just mean if I have a plan going into the trip then I won't have to take time at every meal to get out my phone and look up nutritional info and and we can get our meals then get on with having fun in the parks. It's not an excuse, I just want to be courteous to my husband, who - as Charlie Sheen would say - has one speed, one gear "GO" when it comes to Disney trips.

The weight I've lost has been over the course of 3 weeks, 21 days. I went from a very sedentary lifestyle with a high-calorie diet to a 1200 calorie a day, working out 4-5 times a week lifestyle. Yes, that number on the scale is going down drastically, along with my measurements, but I've made drastic changes. If I don't have that excitement and pride to keep me motivated, then this journey just got a lot longer.

I know that the number won't always be down on the scale, but I think that I've worked very hard to accomplish the loss that I have achieved, and I'm committed to this lifestyle because I value my health - and that isn't going away just because I want to figure out how to loosen up on my honeymoon without counteracting the work I've done.