Vacation

Vacation!!!!!!

We are headed on vacation!  Five people in one van for over 20 hours! The stress would drive anyone to eat!  Okay well the stress would drive this girl to eat!  People deal with stress in different ways and that’s what I do!  Chocolate, Cheese and man I’ve been feeing for a diet pepsi! 

Yesterday as I was getting ready for vacation and shopping my mouth was so dry!  I was at the register and you know those marketing SOB’s (yes I said it) they put the little refrigerators next to the registers full of mostly unhealthy beverages, over priced and calling your name!  When in sound mind you say, You losers trying to rip me off, I could walk back 200 yards to the beverage aisle and pick up a pack of 6 of these for a dollar more than what you are charging here in this fancy cute little refrigerator!  But on those weak days, you say, “I need you”, “I must have you, you unhealthy expensive little thing!” 

Trust me I’ve had those days, I don’t want to walk my fat tushy back to the beverage aisle and so I convince myself, “you only really want one” and so you buy it!  Truth is, I would buy the six pack if it were closer…and so this is part of my problem! 

I must have had my muscles on, because I was strong enough to resist the urge to buy that stupid overpriced, bad for you drink! 

I did buy some alternatives….Adriondack Seltzer, flavored raspberry lime!  My bff J would love this drink and so I figure I would too!  I also picked up some kind of Starbucks Natural energy drink that another friend told me about.  She’s on a health revolution for her life after losing her sister, and a dear friend of mine to cancer! She loves them, so I figured I’d try them.   This is part of my desire for better health.  I’ll blog about the sweetest girl I’ve ever met another time!  [tear]

I packed the car with some yummies…but also packed lots of water, bananas, apples, drinkable applesauces (mostly for the kids) and GUM!  I love that I can chew sugarfree gum for free!  Zero points on WW.  Maybe I have a slight oral fixation and like to just eat and chew.  So I throw that piece of gum in my mouth and it keeps from food entering.  I have to say, I’ve never eaten gum and ate something at the same time…that could be a little gross.

I am not going to fully deprive myself while on vacation but there are a few things I am definitely going to do…

1.        I will NOT drink any soda!  None.

2.       I will try to eat only when hungry and not just to eat!

3.       I will get plenty of rest at night so that I am not a hot mess during the day, which makes it harder for      me to make good decisions.

4.       I will BLOG! 

Any tips you want to share with me?!