A Plan is only the basis for change – Diet? What Diet?

[WiganTony]

A Plan is only the basis for change – Diet? What Diet?

Trip Intro/Index here.

We were fortunate enough to have booked our stay at OKW to coincide with the offer of free DDP. Having experienced DDP back in 2010, we knew that there was potential for a lot of eating and a lot of weight gain!!! As an advance attack, both myself and Joanne had been dieting before the trip, losing some 28lb between us, and did try to adopt a slightly healthier approach to eating.

For this visit, we decided that we didn’t have to use every credit on the plan – no point in eating ourselves silly – and would try and split a lunchtime CS between us, try not to have a dessert every lunch but substitute the sweet stuff for fruit or water (and water in lieu of fizzy drinks), and reduce the number of buffet restaurants (we only ended up doing Crystal Palace and Boma.

As a result, when we both weighed ourselves on the return home, Joanne had lost another 2lb, and I had added 3lb to my frame, certainly a lot less than I had expected!!!

Despite our healthy (ish!!) eating plan, we did get to have some great meals - Narcoossee’s (twice!!), the Captain’s Grille (twice as well), and a surprisingly good meal at T-Rex. The bills for all meals came to around $1,800 with our tips coming to around $230 – that said, we did have a large number of steaks (and lobsters in Joanne and Alex’s case!!).

We also found that WPE Express at Westside was very quiet on the couple of occasions we ate there – certainly no problem in getting a table for dinner, although the menu did not seem to be as varied at the Marketplace location (where we had no problems in getting breakfasts on a couple of days either).
Where we ate (B/L/D):

Day 1 – Dinner a take away from Pizza Hut (too tired to get changed and eat out!!)
Day 2 – Ihop/No lunch/Bahama Breeze (LBV)
Day 3 – McDs/Aquatica/Olive Garden (LBV)
Day 4 – WPE (Marketplace)/Premium Outlets/T-Rex (DTD)
Day 5 – In Room/Backlot Express (HS)/Captain’s Grille
Day 6 – In Room/Andaphur Local (AK)/Hoop de Doo
Day 7 – Discovery Cove/Discovery Cove/WPE (Westside)
Day 8 – In Room/Crystal Palace/Village Haus
Day 9 – WPE Express (Marketplace)/Turtle Shack (OKW)/Tangierine Café (EPCOT)
Day 10 – In Room/Typhoon Tilly’s (TL)/Narcoossee’s
Day 11 – In Room/ABC Commissary (HS)/Captain’s Grille
Day 12 – In Room/McDs (Tampa) / Clear Sky Beachside Café (Clearwater Beach)
Day 13 – In Room/Electric Umbrella (EPCOT)/Chefs de France (EPCOT)
Day 14 – In Room/Lottawatta Lodge (BB)/Kona Café
Day 15 – In Room/Village Haus (MK)/Boma
Day 16 – In Room/Turtle Shack (OKW)/Bongos
Day 17 – In Room/Pizzafari (AK)/Narcoossee’s
Day 18 – In Room/Disneyquest/Airport