Weight Loss on Vacation!

This Week's BMI:   25.3  Woohoo!!!!!!  Reward Facial is just 2.5 pounds away. 

This is all the more significant because I was away on vacation last week! So how does one manage weight control while on vacation? It's tempting when you're checked out and on vacation to just let loose and enjoy.  And of course, you should.  It all comes down to what enjoyment of food really is about. 
It's great to enjoy the cuisine of the area that you travel to, but you can still do so in a responsible way. No matter where you travel, and what the local cuisine is, the main rule of eating is universal:  eat what you need to eat, not more. I like to sample a variety of foods when I'm on vacation, but I tried very hard to be mindful of the quantity of the food that I was consuming.  It used to be that I thought that if a food was to be enjoyed, it had to be eaten in large quantities.  I've found out that this doesn't have to be the case.  You can actually gain more enjoyment from eating small portions.  In portion-explosion America, eating small portions when you're eating out on vacation meant eating only an appetizer at times, or saving half my plate for another meal. It also meant sharing a meal, or even sharing a bite, of a traveling companion's plate to sample a taste.  All of this was coupled with unconscious exercise by taking advantage of local attractions (for example going to a theme park, or a beach).  I guess last week is proof that this all worked!