Vacation

I'm going out of town in a few days on vacation.  We've rented a condominium/resort type place with all the luxuries of home, including a kitchen so I'll be able to prepare healthy meals and eat exactly the same as I do here. 

But..there's always a but...one day of our trip is planned at an amusement park, which is great, tons of walking involved so lots of calories burned, but we've planned to eat at a diner inside the park that everyone is pretty fond of.  I've been planning on indulging and enjoying the fries and milkshake but sticking with a grilled chicken instead of the cheeseburgers to save a little calories.  I was gonna have a piece of pie too.  I have no idea how many calories these things have and I've got every intention of not counting calories that day if I follow thru with this plan.  One really unhealthy meal in 5 months won't miraculously put all that weight back on me I know but here is my dilemma... 

The problem is I'm afraid that if I make the excuse for this one meal that I'll make excuses for meals in the near future and before you know it I'm headed back down the same path to destruction I was on before.  I don't want to do that.  I don't want 2 weeks to roll around and say to myself "What's 2 meals in 6 months, eat it and enjoy" and then "What's the problem with once a week, I've been doing great!"  Lots of people need days like what I've got planned to stick with a plan.  I'm the opposite.  I need to avoid days like that because it's an invitation for disaster in most cases. 

If I could possibly budget the calories into my day I wouldn't feel so bad about the poor nutritional quality, just that I didn't "overspend" my calories.  I know that's not possible if I eat the  meal and dessert.  The milkshake alone will probably exceed my normal intake.  Maybe I should just eat the grilled chicken sandwich, order a diet soda and skip the rest.

i think after all your hard work you deserve to have this one meal you'll enjoy. but if your afraid of doing it again and psyching yourself out, just make sure next time you think something like that to post it on here to get feedback, or just think to yourself you don't want to get off track. but i think you can take this one indulgence!

Eat. Enjoy. Indulge :)

I been traveling a lot since beginning of the year. It sucks in beginning because you feel bogged down. And it is true that when you eat crap you feel like one :p

Well, my motto is enjoy in modertion while not depriving myself. So, after I got back from my travel, I jump back on the workout routine.

Thanks to both of you.  I think I'll have the one meal and in the future if any thoughts creep up I'll be sending out SOS calls to keep me on track.  =))