How To Lose Weight You Gained On Vacation

Throughout the course of the last couple years I’ve learned a lot about maintenance and how to properly navigate vacations and situations that usually lead to weight fluctuation.

When successfully losing weight there’s a temptation to avoid situations that may limit your control but I urge you not to. You’re soul purpose in life is not to lose weight, give yourself permission to enjoy yourself while you’re on your trip. Drink the margarita, enjoy the chips and guacamole!

When you come back to home base, lay off the scale for a couple days. The scale can be a source of encouragement but it can also be a source of unneeded tension. You just went on a marvelous vacation, you had amazing food experiences, and you don’t want anything to put a damper on those experiences! It was an incredible time, own it! You deserved it!

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Give yourself a bit of grace andallow a couple days to pass to allow the post vacay bloat to fall off before weighing yourself again. Trust me, you will feel much better.

It’s important to keep in mind that if those extra vacation pounds are going to fall off, you have to get back into your regular normal everyday routine when you get home.

I’ve fallen into that trap time and time again. It’s easy to come home from a vacation and order takeout because you don’t have groceries in the house yet. Still stuck in relaxation mode the pizza man gets called the following night. Now there’s groceries in the house but you just don’t feel like putting anything together. Rinse and repeat until two months later you’ve regained 20 pounds and are left wondering how it happened when you were doing so well!

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We combat it with getting back into our routines right away! Lots of nutrient dense foods, tons of water, and limiting sodium intake. If there was a lot of lazing around on your trip, get back to being active, don’t delay! The longer you delay the more difficult it is to get back to it!

This is definitely an exercise in self discipline that I have learned over time. It’s about protecting the lifestyle that I’ve cultivated over the past couple years because it’s important to me.

I was morbidly obese for so long, that there’s a part of me that gets a bit nervous to see the number on the scale go up after vacation because that somehow means I could go back there. I acknowledge those feelings, because they’re valid, and I speak truth to them.

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The truth is that I’ll never go back to where I was before because I’m a different person now. I’ve conquered so many unhealthy habits in my life, diet being the least of them.

Let them tell me that I need to exercise more, that I need to eat less, that I need to cut out fruits and vegetables and healthy carbohydrates. But that’s not the truth, the truth is that this is living! Bodies don’t stay the same size, there’s bloat, hormones, and delicious food that happens! It’s important to embrace fluctuation as part of living a normal healthy lifestyle instead of letting it upset and derail you.I am finally back from vacationing at Walt Disney World and BOY it was a lot of fun! It was sooo much fun, that I kinda got a little bit carried away and enjoyed a LOT of good food. Too much good food. 

After all, I bought the dining plan which included a dessert at every meal-something I usually don’t eat. YIKES. So, I felt the need to live a little, enjoy my vacation, and to not let my all expenses included meals go to waste. You only live once after all, right? But, just as with anything in life, eating junk food that my body is not used to came with its consuquences.  By the 8th and final day of our vacation, I was bloated, fluffy, and lacking energy. I did NOT gain any weight numerically, but my body was a far cry from how it usually looked.

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Thank goodness we walked about 8 miles per day and I even packed my weights along with me, but this just comes to show you how much diet can REALLY play a role in how you look and feel.

The photo on the left was taken the last night of our vacation. The photo on the right? Just 3 days after getting back home. Quite the difference, right? So what did I do to get right back where I was pre-vacay? I reset my WHOLE BODY.

Similar to detoxing, I really just went back to the way I normally do things, but with more intensity. For example, here’s what I did to reset my body from all of the guilty pleasures I indulged in:

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We are planning on another Disney trip in February and I vow to be a little more health conscious while I am there. Believe it or not, Disney DOES offer healthier options-I just chose not to take them lol. Also, I realized that no, I do not have to take the dessert even though it’s included. It is all a matter of willpower and I let the whole “BUT IT’S VACATION!” idea get inside my brain. 

Next time, I am so excited to choose better options and to document them on the blog to help keep me accountable and to show you that it is possible to stay healthy while on vacay.

This blog is for those who are thinking of becoming pregnant, are already pregnant, or have given birth and are looking forward to getting their best bodies ever.

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