Alison, I'm not ignoring your guys' conservation, just reading along and taking notes. I've had a weight problem my whole life, lost and gained back a 100 pounds twice. I'm back on track and trying to lose it again. But will definitely not be that careful on vacation.
I don't think anyone should be that careful on vacation, it's part of the point! I do agree it spills over though. I've worked out the last 4 vacations and have never done that before in my life! Not my normal schedule but still, just even the idea before wouldn't have even crossed my mind but somehow...I felt compelled to at least do a little something. So bizarre. In a good way but odd and new.
I'm so glad you guys are talking about weight and what is working for you. I struggle with my weight too and am finding this all very inspiring.
Jill in CO
Hey, random cruise question for you! Wasn't there somewhere you really like in San Juan for hotel? It's ridiculously far away to me but there is a FB meet thread for the cruise (I can PM you the link if you like, I don't think you are on it?) and a lot of hullaballo over a AAA rate at the Sheraton right there at the port. Rate doesn't seem anything spectacular to me but maybe I'm missing something.
Vacation is defiantly not the time to begin to make changes. I find though that my healthier changes spill over even when on vacation, most of the time, just because I don't feel great if I'm stuffed silly. For me quantity is a huge factor. Hate diet food, always have, always will. Portion control is key. I'm sure I eat too much fats.
I run very well on a balanced 1200 calories a day.
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For me it's as much ingredient control as it is portion. Really small portions of certain things can be really dangerous to me. Like mac and cheese! OMG I love my homemade mac and cheese but OMG once I put the ingredients in to myfitnesspal...yikes. I am with you on diet food. Balance is key. That's where myfitnesspal really helped me make some tweaks. Calories weren't horribly off but the nutrition...not always so good. 1200 is weight loss mode for me, I need more than that.
Thanks ladies. I'm already doing things. I don't eat sweets. Occasionally, yes. But I'm not one who would eat a container of Ben and Jerry's in a sitting. More like four sittings. I also don't drink diet soda. Coffee, water, iced tea and wine. Unfortunately my portion sizes are already pretty small.
I'm sure you are doing lots of things! Not remotely implying or assuming you aren't and I truly hope you don't take it that way. All I am saying is that for me, using some kind of food log that really tracked the content really helped me understand exactly what it all added up to be. So for example I eat a fair amount of oatmeal. I love raisins in it. I was probably putting 3/4 cup in my bowl. It's fruit, it's fiber, it's healthy. But the sugar content in that alone was nuts! I've dropped it to 1/4 cup. Trail mix. I love trail mix as a snack, and it's healthy right? Sure..in 1/4c increments. Who wants only 1/4 cup? That's not even a handful lol. But knowing the impact having more than that had..has helped.
TGerm killer is mine and Brandi's (dgbg100206) sarcastic term for spirits and wine. When a bunch of people on the AKL thread were sick, we joked that we made sure to kill the germs with plenty of drinks! Hence the term "germ killler".
It's my downfall too. Ok that and cheese and chips. Honestly, when I was in weight loss mode I made sure I burned enough that day, to justify my wine that night. One 6 oz glass is about 114 calories. I don't know about you but my glasses just might be bigger than that and well, I may have more than one. 45 minutes of walking is worth one glass of wine, so is 50 minute of house cleaning but even better, so is 30 minutes of gardening.
I will say I did give up beer for the most part about a year and a half ago. Not for weight loss reasons but because I have issues with carbonation. Pretty much stick to wine and that does help and we limit it to certain nights of the week as well as amount. Jeff cut beer to Fridays only, switching to wine, and just that alone helped him lose some.
I would love the link to the FB meet thread. 
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Then I was WAAAAAAY over!
All it was was an infected ingrown toenail but camp didn't have the numbing shots. I was wracking my brain thinking: who lives in CO that I can call when I first got the call. I was freaking out a little. 
They ended up not cutting it out but giving her an antibiotic. 
