We're home. We had a wonderful vacation. We went to Disneyland to celebrate our 23rd anniversary and have a second honeymoon with our family. When we got married 23 years ago my husband took me to Disneyland......I had always wanted to go there as a kid and he fulfilled a lot of my "childhood desires" over the 6 years of dating so this fit in so perfectly. I grew up in a family with very little money and our big outing was to go to McDonalds every few months after church for a hamburger. For vacations we pitched the tent and camped out for a couple days, when all the other families were going to Disneyland or other big resorts.
Anyway....we had a GREAT time and the kids loved it! It was their first time to go, as we don't have much money either since I stay at home with the kids and don't work outside the home. We have saved for several years to do this. We had hoped to go for our 20th anniversary but it didn't work out for various reasons till now.
I was really nervous about what I was going to eat. In the past I have always seen trips or vacations as a time to eat whatever I wanted and to go out to eat and not worry about anything. Now that I have been trying to get healthy I had a new challenge. I was going to try to eat healthy on vacation. I didn't know how I was going to do it but that was my goal.
We stayed in a hotel that served a full breakfast buffet and I thought "oh, no can I do this, can I limit myself?" all the food that I could have ever wanted was right there staring me in the face.....pancakes, bacon, sausage, toast of all kinds, muffins, doughnuts, cereals, chocolate milk, fresh made omelets of any kind, french toast and hot syrup, and fried potatoes. This was overwhelming to me and was not sure I could limit myself. The first day I told myself all the way down the elevator, "I can make healthy choices, I can do this, I can limit myself, I am worth it!" O.k......I got in line and ordered an omelet with spinach, mushrooms, tomatoes, onions, and then he put a spoonful of vegitarian mix on it too, I did have a small amount of cheese inside it but skipped the extra cheese on the outside. I put two big spoons of fresh salsa on the top instead. I was doing pretty good, then I got a small spoon of the fried potatoes, some sausage, two pieces of bacon, a couple of pancakes and french toast, then a doughnut, a couple of mini muffins...then I grabbed a couple of yogurts and a couple of bananas and.......oh, no I was not doing so good any more. So we got in the elevator to go back to our room to eat. I was not feeling so good about my choices anymore....I gave in and took the things I told myself I was not going to take. When I sat down to eat I decided that just because I took all these things didn't mean I had to eat them, so I got a plate and took all the things back off my plate that I wasn't going to eat in the first place and put them on the counter. I ended up eating 1/2 of my omelet....it was really good!, 2 links of sausage, one piece of bacon, and about 8 pieces of small potato cubes, one bite of french toast with syrup. I saved the bananas and yogurt and took them into the park with me along with some trail mix and an odwalla bar. I did eat more than I had planned but I didn't stuff myself with all the food I could. I felt good about it after all and was so glad to have the bananas and yogurt later that day for lunch.
We did not buy any food inside the park, we all took yogurt, fruit and trail mix, the kids took a few pancakes to munch too. We ended up going to Jack-in-the-box for dinner and I ordered a grilled chicken sandwich without mayo and some water. I did eat a few of the kids fries too. The next day had an egg white omelet with all the veggies and salsa, 2 sausages and 4 pieces of potatoes, yogurt and fruit for lunch and lots of water, for dinner a salad, 1/2 of a grilled chicken strip, and about 1/2 cup fettuccinie alfredo. I had the same for the next day breakfast and lunch but then had another grilled chicken sandwich and a side salad for dinner. We did make a mistake of ordering some onion rings from the hotel (because I forgot to order them of my husband at Carls Jr.) and I ate about 5 of them with bleu cheese dressing dip. I had a smoothie one night and icecream another night and drank lots of water everyday and walked a lot ( I took my pedometer to track the walking but it gave out on me on the first day after about 2.1 miles).
The last 2 days we drove to San Diego to visit family and she had made a full buffet of mexican food.....it was sooo good but the weather was so hot for me that I really didn't feel like eating too much, and she had a lot of fresh healthy choices so it wasn't too hard there. Over all I think I didn't do all that bad, of course I could have done better if I was really strict but felt pretty good about it in the end. One thing I forgot to do was ask for no butter on my bagel the last day for breakfast, I had a fruit plate with it. On thursday I will step on the scale and see what it says!!!
2 comments:
You did well.
Holidays can be quite an adventure with food. It can be quite a challenge looking for the healthy options and not feeling deprived.
The most important thing is that you had a great time with your family! We don't get these moments too often, and I'm glad you enjoyed yours, fully and without regret!
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