Vacation eating has ended

I weighed in this morning to find I had gained 2.9 lbs on my vacation. All in all, I can live with that.  The cruise eating was very easy. The formal dining room is served to you in perfect portions. I at dessert every night. When eating at the buffets, I made sure to have a fruit or a vegetable with my meal. The thing is the walking. you have to walk everywhere  I took stairs more often than I normally would because the elevators were a bit slow. There was also no pantry to browse through. I truly only ate when I was hungry.

Then came Disney World. The food is not only over priced, but over portioned! There were several times we ate at a buffet that I had more than I should eat, including extra dessert. We did a lot more walking there though.What most likely did me in were those times when I was alone that I got a sweet treat. I also bought a lot of chocolate in different countries in Epcot.

I had my last fattening dessert out tonight at Red Robin for my son's birthday. My older son and I shared a brownie sundae. Tomorrow points start again. I also need to keep up the exercise. I walked quite a bit during my vacation and I don't want to lose that momentum. I didn't walk today, however I did shovel what felt like 200 lbs of slushy, wet, heavy snow.

Tomorrow I am going to look into a couch to 5K type of program. I have no interest in running, too many parts of my body jiggle when I run, but I would like to increase my activity and stamina.

point two

That is what I am up this week. 0.2. Its only 3 ounces. It is so minuscule its like staying the same. I bet if I used the bathroom before I went it would have been less.

I did, however, walk 30 minutes for 3 days and 10 minutes for 1 day. Walking is good. I have a very eclectic music taste when I walk though. Yesterday i started out with some slower country music, then bon jovi, adam lambert and guns and roses. Paradise City really has a good beat to walk to. I finished up my cool down with Sounds of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel

I don't want to know what I would have gained without the exercise. I had a few days this week that I over ate when I knew I was not hungry. I blame PMS.

Vacation starts Saturday. I am not following my plan on vacation. I also am not going to overindulge just because I am "on vacation". It's still all about the choices. The first four days there will be food available on the cruise 24 hours a day. I do not need to eat all day long. I do not need to eat ice cream with every meal just because it is available. I'm not saying I wont eat dessert, but I do not need a lot of it. For the Disney part of the trip, I am bringing snacks. We can eat pop tarts in the room for breakfast.

The other thing that should keep the weight down on vacation is the extra walking. I usually end up doing fairly well on vacation because of the additional exercise. We'll see how I do!

Diet AND Exercise

When I started weight watchers, I decided that I was not going to add in the exercise component as long as I was losing with just the diet part. Well, folks, that day is here. For the last month or so I have been bouncing up and down the same 2 1/2 lbs. I had already decided to start walking again when the WW leader said the focus for this month is activity! Perfect timing for me!

Well, today I started. 10 minutes on the treadmill. 10 minutes isn't much, but it is 10 more minutes than I got yesterday. My goal is to do 10 minutes per day. Once I go on vacation, that will be easy, in fact, I'll blow that total out of the water with all of the walking I'll be doing on the boat & at Disney.

I am also proud of my choices today. I wrote down all of my points for breakfast and lunch and then decided on dinner and added that in too. Then I planned my snacks. Planning is supposed to help remedy that  hungry-looking-through-the-kitchen behavior. I went to the BB&Beyond after work and didn't buy the chocolate drizzled popcorn, or the candy bar I was going to justify. I did have an extra snack in my bag and ate that when I got to the car.

Up again

I'm up 2.1 lbs. I'm ok with that. I had birthday cake 3 days in a row and went out to dinner for my son's 12th birthday. I'm glad it wasn't more. I celebrated by finally going to Red Lobster. I skipped the rolls, told the waiter to not even bring them to the table. I didn't finish my lunch because I was full. I did however, stop and buy chocolate at Walgreens before i picked up the kids from school.  I have been craving chocolate all week. Im pretty sure I am out of points for the day & week now! Luckily my points reset on Thursday morning.

one more week before my vacation. I'm not going to diet on vacation, nor am i going to gorge myself. I typically don't gain much if any on vacation. 1. there is no pantry/kitchen to grab food all day when I'm bored, 2. i don't plan to be board and 3. i'll be doing so much more walking then I do now.

The goal for weight watchers for this month is to be more active. I don't need to go gung ho, i plan to add 10 minutes per day of exercise to my day.

at the computer

my goal this week was to not eat at my computer. Well, so far eh...

I ate my breakfast at the computer. I have limited time in the morning. This probably means I am addicted to Facebook and email and stupid zynga games. I have managed to not eat snacks at the computer, I guess I will have to be satisfied with that.   I can choose to be mad at myself for not meeting my goal and go eat or I can choose to recognize that my goal does not work for me in its current format. I am revising my goal to not  snack while I am on the computer. We'll see how that goes for the rest of the week.

Today is bowling for the boys. I am going to choose to not eat food at the bowling alley. I am going to pack a snack instead. I know that Sunday is my son's birthday; this means eating out and cake. I want to save my points for then.