Post - Vacation

I had some great intentions for my vacation.

I brought all of my food, I planned meals, I got in the right mindset.....

Intentions are great.  Planning is great.  But when it came down to it, did I stick with it?

That would be a resounding no.

Did I gain some weight?  That would be yes.

Was staying on plan for vacation a bust?  Yup.

Am I upset, depressed, and unwilling to go on?  Absolutely not.

Actually, you can say I am more motivated than ever!

When you are an emotional eater trying to recover, you get to the point that you realize that it is not about the food.  Losing weight and getting healthy is more than just eating right.  There are things that you need to deal with way before you can be successful on any plan.  If you don't deal with those emotional things, you are NOT going to be successful.

I realized that I have been working on staying on plan, eating right, losing weight, but I have not been dealing with some things emotionally.

I am not going to get into all of my problems here.  Let's just say, I have some issues.  Issues with my self esteem, relationships with my family, emotions that I have that I bottle up because I feel that I am not important or worth it.  Let's just say lots of issues.

While on vacation, there were some opportunities for me to deal with some of these issues.  Normally, vacation is a time to get away from your problems and hide, vacation for me was meeting some of my problems head on.  I met some head on because some of the people I have had issues with live where I was going on vacation.  I could not hide from it.  In fact, I had to go out of my comfort zone, and make myself contact them and make plans to visit.

And I did.  I made sure I was able to visit these family members so my children could begin to know them, and I could make peace with things.  I even brought up some stuff with my husband that had been bothering me that I needed to talk about.  My husband and I work opposite schedules, so we never get any time to ourselves and we never get to talk without the kids being around.  This vacation gave us some time so I could talk about some things that were bothering me and we could work out.

We got home yesterday, and I really feel good.  I started back on plan today, and as I said, I feel more motivation than ever.  I know I was not good on vacation (on plan wise), but I feel that this vacation helped me to get my head back in the game, and deal with things that I have been putting off dealing with for a long time.

If you are finding you are not sticking to your plan, it may be more than just wanting a piece of ______________.  Are there emotions that you are not dealing with that are getting in the way of your health?  I know that I still have work to do.  I know that I will be dealing with my self esteem issues, family relationships, bottling up emotions for my whole life, but putting those things out there and starting is only going to help me to be stronger and healthier.  Mentally and physically.

So this vacation was far from a bust.  Sometimes you need to take a few steps back in order to go forward.  And I am moving forward for sure!




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