I need a vacation from my vacation!

Aug 23, 2014

I returned yesterday from five days "downtheshore" with my parents, sister, and two nieces. We had a lovely time. The weather was perfect most of the week, the house we stay in is beautiful, I had great quality time with my family. The family is incredibly supportive of my WLS and my post-WLS needs, so things went pretty well. We each took a night of cooking duty and my mom and sister both made things that I could easily eat (slightly modified versions). I kept pretty active and my liquids and vitamins all got in.

But the latter part of the week I did fall into a little bit of snacking. Not terrible, the two difficult days both added up to 1100-1200 calories and I did lose a pound when I stepped on the scale this morning - but that isn't the point. I'm ok with the higher calories, what I wasn't down with was that I didn't plan for said indulgences and they didn't even satisfy or make me feel good. In fact, one of these snacking moments was a handful of honey wheat pretzels and I felt totally (physically) miserable afterwards. I'll need to remember that feeling! I'm not going to lie, I had that "well, I'm on vacation" thought go through my head more than once....ugh.

In two weeks I'm headed BACK on vacation (rough life, right?) to another beach. This time with my aunt and uncle, sister and BIL, and the 2 nieces. I know I need to figure out a few strategies for dealing with the "I'm on vacation" thoughts. So far I've decided I'll definitely make some of my Cool Whip FroYo, have pre-measure 1oz bags of Honey Roasted Almonds (my current favorite snack), and lots of different 0 calorie beverages options available.

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