I will post many pictures soon since they have been
requested by many, but in the meantime I want to discuss the food related
activities that surrounded the BIG DAY!
As someone who consistently battles the bulge and tries to
keep that little (big is probably a better term) devil at bay, a wedding and
honeymoon (especially when it is your OWN) is a time when one just has to let
go and enjoy every second of their time…and that included indulging in anything
and everything I wanted-more wedding cake? Yes please! Left over catering food?
Sign me up! Carbs-galore in Punta Cana on our honeymoon? Is that even a question!?!?!
In an effort for full disclosure, I was SOOO EXCITED to not
think or worry about anything I would be eating for a couple of weeks and was
determined to just ‘live it up!’ (This I will discuss in a later post because it made me realize that I may be a bit too strict with myself on a daily basis because it caused me to be way too excited to go rough with my eating for a couple weeks...haha)
Now I certainly lived it up, about 10 lbs worth to be exact! Before
you have a heart attack at the craziness that I allowed to happen let me tell
you one thing…within 2 days of being home I was already down 5lbs!!…I’ll assume
it’s water weight from traveling, or changes in diets, etc. - either way my actual
post-wedding/honeymoon gain was about 5 lbs….and I’ll take it for what I allowed myself enjoyed!
In a future blog post I also want to discuss traveling
internationally while trying to keep the bulge at bay, but for now I will just
touch on it briefly. In a country where you are not supposed to eat a ton of
fruit, meat, or raw vegetables due to what they feed/fertilize it with, what
seems to essentially be left is carbs-and lots of them. As a self-admitted
carb-a-holic, you will not hear me complain one bit, but within a couple of
days of being away I started to feel gross-all I freaken wanted was a salad! My body craved something from my ‘normal’ day to day eating habits, and craved it more than Adam and
Eve wanted to eat that gosh darn apple! I ordered a salad but within a couple of bites knew I shouldn't be eating it...carbs it was!
With this being said, I know my body inside and out and I KNEW
the number wasn’t going to be good when I got back (insert my gluttony gut here). However, I accepted it and
enjoyed myself in spite of it because I knew I would be back on track once I returned…now
I’m climbing back on the healthy wagon and it certainly is a slippery, tall,
ladder.
I find my mind/body craving those high sugar -high carb foods,
and I find myself trying to rein it in. Imagine trying to pull the reins back
on an out of control horse-you know you have the power to do it and can do it,
but it doesn't make the horse not want to go crazy any less. I know I control
what goes in my mouth and how much of it goes in there but that doesn't make my
mind/body not want them any less right now.
From experience
however, I know this feeling will go away-my body needs time to adjust back to what it
is used to eating, and in a couple of weeks I’ll be back to that no problem. In
the meantime, will power is always stronger than any craving and remembering
that will get me through these pesky couple of pounds that need to go away…
How do you all handle times when you are fighting the uphill
battle of the bulge? When you have set backs, how do you continue the determination
to forge forward?
Until next time…NOT ONLY keeping the bulge at bay but
getting some of the extra bulge to vacate the premises ;)