Not sure if anyone else has been through this before but, I've just gone on a week holiday with my family and it's been good so far! I started off pretty confident I'd be able to keep my eating right and exercise up - and that's been semi-true. I'm averaging my 10-15,000 steps, walking regularly, swimming and even going on morning runs.
The issue is eating. Since it's a vacation, there's fancy brunches and wine tastings and artisan shops/bakeries. I've been managing ok so far with choosing healthier options when eating out, not buying drinks and keeping high processed sweets out of the equation. It's been a little easier too since I don't really crave much of that stuff anymore either, especially since I've been sober a good while too.
However, I can't accurately track a lot of things AND I don't really have access to the same foods that I enjoy. What is bought for the house and to cook (which is now done not by me) is mostly high calorie dense foods and that is totally foreign to me. The inability to track well is kind of stressing me out, and the abundance of snacks (that I do LOVE - like this amazing artisan peanut butter, oat bars etc) has really amped up the constant urge to snack...
I've set myself to eat an maintainence, but as of right now I'm already at that and I still want to graze around and munch. It's hard and I'm not enjoying feeling so weirdly out of control....I sort of thought I had better habits but it really doesn't feel like it. It's affecting going out because my paranoia makes me feel like everyone is judging me each time I refuse a snack or decide I don't want dinner because I'm at my calorie limit for the day...
I'm really torn around how to manage this: should I keep logging as best I can and keep to my maintainence cals and just muscle through my cravings? Or am I being too strict and instead do I just relax a bit, keep up the exercise/activity through the day and enjoy my holiday? Ugh it all feels like sO much - and that makes me think that I'm doing something wrong here. If how my lifestyle is isn't sustainable over a week away, then is it something I can really do for the rest of my life??
How have others managed their holidays? Did you just decide to keep it chill and get back into it when the holiday was over or did you maintain your usual habits as best as you could?
tl;dr: vacations are hard and i want to snack constantly. Not super sure how to manage this with my deficit/weight loss goals - how have other people done this?
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