Don't take a vacation

Whatever you do, you should never go on a vacation.  Ever.

 

I am not saying you should never go to Maui, Orlando or San Juan, I am talking about taking a vacation from being healthy.  Last summer I was doing great on my weight loss and eating.  Where it all went bad was when I took a week off and took a week vacation.  I stopped worrying about what I ate, I stopped doing my blog.

Once I stopped working out as regularly, my eating got lax, and then I started traveling again.  It is hard to travel to places like Italy and eat healthy. 

Then there have been a plethora of other contributing factors that have led to this point.  There is not singular event that is responsible, it is just a chain of events that when stacked up that got me here.  I could say that about the past 30 some odd years of my life too. 

I am not worried about what GOT me here, it is a list of excuses and procrastination that got me here.  I cannot live in the past, all I can do is worry about my future. 

I spent a bunch of time on vacation in New York visiting family during this past summer.  I managed to do well with my eating and work on exercising.  I am currently on a plane to Romania and I plan on exercising when I can whilst there.  I also brought plenty of light snacks (nuts and high protein bars) so I can eat more small meals and not engorge myself on large meals. 

I will never go on vacation from eating properly again.  I have changed my habits over the past 3 months.  I refuse to call it a diet.  Diets fail left and right. I have changed my lifestyle, and it is one that I can live with.  I have managed to do it for the better part of 3 months so I am pretty sure that it is change that I can live with for the rest of my life.