Our road trip earlier this week started off on a positive note: I got up early that morning to go running before we headed out. I was determined to stick to my plan this trip.
Then my boyfriend and the kids decided they want to stop for breakfast, and where did we go? Waffle House! Home of the greasiest food around, guaranteed to give you digestive troubles for days to come. Everything was downhill from there.
Okay, it wasn’t all bad. I worked out in the hotel room Tuesday morning and was very proud of myself. But after eating out for every meal for three days, at restaurants largely selected by three children, I ended up feeling sick to the stomach, heavy, and ready for a detox. We were also up very late each night, so a morning workout on Wednesday was impossible, and I still feel drained and exhausted. I am disappointed in myself, but I was way off schedule and routine, and I didn’t have much control over that.
After work yesterday, I hit the gym for 30 minutes of running and 35 minutes on the elliptical. It felt good to sweat it out and do something good for my body after cramming too much food, and not the healthiest of food, into it for three days.
I anticipate a gain at my weigh in tomorrow morning. I feel irritated and angry: at my boyfriend, because how much harder would it have been to reserve a room at a hotel with a fitness room, and at myself, because I took the time to pack workout DVD’s and a food diary, then went off the rails anyway.
Either way, we’re home now, and I have one more day of eating better and working out before I weigh in tomorrow to assess the damage.
Sweat & Sparkle 
Don't let whatever the scales say deter you. You made the best of the situation…you worked out more than most people. In fact I was thinking about planning my vacation and I flat out refused to plan it in the month preceding my upcoming marathon….I know that the odds of me running are diminished!!! I need to be running my training miles!!! Hahahaha
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Don't let whatever the scales say deter you. You made the best of the situation…you worked out more than most people. In fact I was thinking about planning my vacation and I flat out refused to plan it in the month preceding my upcoming marathon….I know that the odds of me running are diminished!!! I need to be running my training miles!!! Hahahaha
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Don't beat yourself up (or your boyfriend either – lol). I think that is it hard to keep to a routine when you're on vacation and not following a normal routine. Kudos to you for getting back into the swing of it once you returned. Remember, it's all about baby steps!
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Don't beat yourself up (or your boyfriend either – lol). I think that is it hard to keep to a routine when you're on vacation and not following a normal routine. Kudos to you for getting back into the swing of it once you returned. Remember, it's all about baby steps!
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It is about making this your new life, and you did great! Trips like that will happen, and you will go off the rails, but you decided to get right back on 🙂 That is the mark of someone changing their life for the better! The other week I had to stay at my parents house to keep my grandpa company, he had just moved in a few days earlier, and my parents and sister's kids had a vacation that has been planed for a year… my aunt could only stay a few days, so my sister and I moved in. And 3 out of the 4 mornings, I got up, got dressed, took the monitor up to my sister's room and took off running. And I was super proud of myself. But grandpa eats different than I do, and man were my food choices off! BUT, I could have only had grapes at snack, but since he was having cheese and crackers, I had to have cheese and crackers! It's about adapting it to the life we actually have!
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It is about making this your new life, and you did great! Trips like that will happen, and you will go off the rails, but you decided to get right back on 🙂 That is the mark of someone changing their life for the better! The other week I had to stay at my parents house to keep my grandpa company, he had just moved in a few days earlier, and my parents and sister's kids had a vacation that has been planed for a year… my aunt could only stay a few days, so my sister and I moved in. And 3 out of the 4 mornings, I got up, got dressed, took the monitor up to my sister's room and took off running. And I was super proud of myself. But grandpa eats different than I do, and man were my food choices off! BUT, I could have only had grapes at snack, but since he was having cheese and crackers, I had to have cheese and crackers! It's about adapting it to the life we actually have!
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Vacations are soo hard!! The only thing that matters is to jump right back on when you get home…You've done that! Good job!! 🙂
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Vacations are soo hard!! The only thing that matters is to jump right back on when you get home…You've done that! Good job!! 🙂
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Don't beat yourself up with what the scale says. You tried to do your best by planning ahead but unfortunately vacationing (especially with kids) makes it hard for most of us to stay on plan. The good thing is that you jumped right back on the exercise wagon and healthy eating when you got back.
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Don't beat yourself up with what the scale says. You tried to do your best by planning ahead but unfortunately vacationing (especially with kids) makes it hard for most of us to stay on plan. The good thing is that you jumped right back on the exercise wagon and healthy eating when you got back.
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