Surviving the Road Trip

Its inevitable. You are going to have to leave your house and leave to go on vacation, a road trip, to your aunt frannies house, at some point in your life. It happens. And when you are on a diet, you dread the "how am I going to eat on this trip" and stick to what you have done so far.

I was seriously {seriously} concerned. I do NOT do well when I am away from my house. Especially being away and BROKE. But I managed to do it. I feel this, for me at least, is a HUGE pat on the back.

I took my meal bars with me. I took apples. I took 2 peanut butter sandwiches.Water. And I made it work.

I had breakfast before I left. I had an apple for a snack. I had water.

Lunch I had a meal bar and then a peanut butter sandwich.

Dinner, was another story. We went out to the Hard Rock Cafe for dinner. So many choices. So much I wanted to give into and eat. But I stuck with a safe choice- Salad. BUT not all salad's are created equal. Alot of them have a ton of dressing on it. I knew this was going to happen. But I want to enjoy my dinner. I opted to leave off the spiced pecans ( b/c I looked up the calories and it was shaving over over 200 for just 1 oz and because well ick lol) so my dinner was still around 700 calories. But It was ok. I was within my range for the day. That's one thing that I think a lot of people need to understand. Just because you are changing the way you eat, does not mean you can not enjoy something every now and then.

I did great on day 2. which allowed me to have a birthday cupcake at the Post at Play event I was at. And I WANTED that cupcake. I mean, who wouldn't?

Day 3 headed home was decent as well. I did opt to eat at McDonalds on the way home with everyone else. BUT instead of getting something huge and large, I got the snack wrap only. No fries ( which was very hard b/c I am a fry addict). And then when I got home because I was exhausted and had over 800 calories still available, we had taco bell. I just had crunchy tacos. ( ok so i had several crunchy tacos but i was tired. and hungry. and sunburnt)

All in all i never once went over my calories and actually stayed under my goal by quite a bit 2 of the 3 days. I call that a success in my book!

Almost to the end of month three week one. Its not getting any easier. I do not care what anyone says. When you are overweight, it is ALWAYS hard. Its full of temptations. I am just choosing to try and overcome them. One day at a time.

xoxo
Steph