Not to jinx my winning streak, but I am hitting the diet jackpot in Las Vegas! I haven't been perfect, but it's so close to perfect, I'm feeling fabulous about my diet during this vacation.
Things started off rockily when I didn't get my exercise done before hopping in the car to drive and drive and drive to Las Vegas. Then of course, by the time we arrived, I was too pooped to even think about exercise.
The next day, I spent at a convention so I did a lot of walking, and I managed to pick up a noodle too. However, I didn't get to use it because the pool closes so early. And I also didn't get to weight-train because the hotel fitness room has an entrance fee! (When did this trend start?!) But I made up for it by going for a long walk that night, and I've used the pool every day since.
I've also been getting a lot of "spontaneous" exercise, since parking is never anywhere close to where you want to go. Even once you get inside the building, you have to walk and walk and walk (casinos are enormous).
Best of all, I'm sticking pretty closely to my food plan. The only deviation so far was last night at my favorite Las Vegas eatery. I had planned to have either a cocktail or some bread in addition to half of the entree. I opted for the cocktail even though I wasn't sure I could withstand the bread. But apparently the busboy forgot about our table and we never got a bread basket. I told myself that was just as well, but I did struggle not to ask for it anyway.
Winning that battle made quite a difference when my entree arrived. Normally I would be so full of bread that eating all of an entree was difficult (but I'd manage!). So my plan to eat 1/2 of the entree seemed reasonable, but without all the bread, the entree looked so small... So I gave myself permission to eat as much of the entree as I comfortably could. That turned out to be most of it, and I did eat just past comfortably full, so a minor setback.
But I'm still happy with my progress so far. I hope Lady Luck stays with me through the rest of the trip...
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