I always gain weight at Disney

My 2 cents, for what it's worth...

You see, I'm a fairly big girl (5'7 - 235 pounds). I work out 5 times a week, eat whole real food, whole grains, fruits and veggies and mostly vegetarian. In the past 10 years, I've lost 85 pounds. :thumbsup2 Just by changing the way I eat and by moving. In the past 4 years, my weight has been the same. I know I need to eat less, but what can I say, I love to eat! :rotfl:

When I'm on vacation at WDW, I try to eat fruits and veggies as well but I do overindulge in sugary snacks and desserts as well. I limit my comsumption of sugary drinks by ordering water bottles, and we always have water with us in the parks.

When I come home, even with all the walking, I've usually gained 3 to 5 pounds. But, I have found that after a couple of weeks of going back to my "regular" schedule of exercising and eating right, the weight comes off. My conclusion has been that it's mostly water retention from all the salty and sugary foods I have been eating for a week of two. After a couple of days home, it usually starts to come back to normal.

I am not trying to judge anyone, but for me vacation is vacation. A break from my daily routine. While I weigh myself regularly, I would never bring a scale with me to Disney or any other vacation for that fact. I think we all deserve a break as human beings, and weighing ourselves and worrying about weight gain during vacation is one of them. :)
 
Honestly with a limited budget some trips and two young children I have eaten what was convenient often times rather than what I really wanted or should eat. One trip I drank mostly soda and ate mostly junk food and came home the same weight but then I was technically overweight. Since I have been a normal weight any wrong doing just creeps the pounds on. Going to really study menus for our ADR's before we go and know what to order and when to treat myself. If I don't plan I'll eat whatever then feel bad!
 
We had the deluxe plan on our last trip, and I gained 9 pounds. I am not used to that many large meals a day with an appetizer, dessert and high calorie snacks. It was great though. Our next trip will be deluxe too, so I am anticipating another large weight gain. My husband lost weight even though we ate at all of the same places (and he ate more at each meal than I did). The walking works for some and not others. The weight came off within a couple of weeks after returning home.
 


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