Vacation Eating

It's vacation time!!

My plan for vacation eating.

I can already see this is going to be a problem 

(as evidence by my having pizza and breakfast out this past weekend--I know, I know) 

so I need to attack it head-on.

We'll be going on vacation for a week.

The place we are going to has breakfast every morning with healthy options so that won't be too hard.

I'll choose fruit or oatmeal.

Once we get there I plan on going to the grocery store to pick up a few things.

That will be our lunch and snacks.

We plan on going out for dinner each night.

Ding, ding, ding.....the danger.

Some ideas I have come up with to help with this vacation.

1.  Drink water, lots of it. (Everybody will have a water bottle)

2.  Eat a healthy breakfast to start the day off right. (Fruit/oatmeal/eggs)

3.  Prepare ahead of time. (Snacks prepackaged ahead of time to throw in backpack, bring 

      picnic lunches (If homemade, I can control type of food and portions)

4.  Dinners out (I will leave this as a choice of whatever sounds good but will share with Olivia

     that way I'll choose healthier)

5.  Try not to choose restaurants with "biggest ever" foods, fried, etc.  --Yeah--who's knows on

     this one :)

6.  Snacks (Again-prepackaged ahead of time, variety)

7.  Schedule of food ( I think if we plan on a schedule ahead of time we'll better stick to it)

8.  Have treats-one a day--(Don't deny or the eating healthy bandwagon will crash and go up in 

     flames)

9.  Know limits (Vacation is suppose to be fun but sometime I have the tendency to have to

     explore 

     EVERYTHING--good grief we might miss something you know!  This will help us not get so

     exhausted we end up not caring what we eat or skipping meals only to overeat the next time-

      -that's miserable!)

     Olivia helps us to slow down--we end up having the most fun when we ride the trains or are

      walking slowly on trail--so win for this one :)

10.  Eat when hungry (trying to listen when I'm actually hungry vs. when the time of day says I

      should be hungry.  That's where my snacks come in handy :)

   

For exercise, I'm leaving that up to all the walking and swimming I plan on doing.  

I'm not going to waste any time having fun.

I think if I can nail this vacation down, I can do anything.

This week (vacation starts Wednesday) I'm going to post a nailed it/failed it update.

If I nailed it--it'll be a win, if I failed it I'll make a plan of action & learn from it :)

I will do all the above so when we go to the beach next year, I will have a better time than I did last year.

This mama wants to kick ass in an actual age appropriate swimsuit & not all covered up and ashamed.

I want to be the mama on the outside I feel on the inside.  

Full of energy and able to keep up with the kids.