Let's talk about the vacation...

Let's just say his wonderful wife, Shay (that's me), didn't help with making great eating decisions. We started out doing so well, we worked out two consecutive days, walked around Clearwater Beach all day (in the hooootttt sun) and hiked up the stairs of University of Florida's football stadium (all the way to the top people!)....so we did get exercise almost every day; however, we ate at Wing Zone, Burger King, Wendys, The Real Chow Baby, and every other joint we where we could wrap our lips around unhealthy food. I feel that we did well on our decisions at first but slowly we started going back to old behaviors.

The know what the positve thing was....the scale was very forgiving to us (more so me). I only gained 1.4 lbs and I am already back on track. James gained 3.8 lbs and he is already back on track. The point is, though, we shouldn't have gained! You don't SLOWLY take the weight off to put ANY of it back it during a vacation (or period).

We weren't getting on the scale every morning so we weren't keeping our weight in check like we do at home; therefore, we just figured once we messed up, we REALLY MESSED UP! But we didn't and if we had our scale, we would have seen that. But that's the mentality you want to avoid anyway...I messed up once so it's over and I should just totally blow it....WRONG! If you mess up, you get back on track immediately. Anyway, we will be taking our scale on future vacations!

Oh yeah...about the vacation! Things we did/places we went:

• Clearwater/Clearwater Beach, FL/Gulf of Mexico (took a boat ride out to the Gulf and watched the fireworks on the boat)
• Tampa/Tampa Bay, FL (stayed at the Westin with a bay view from our room. I'll post the pics...it was beautiful!)
• St. Petersburg, FL (downtown area mostly)
• Ocala, FL (where we stayed at grandma's house)
• Gainesville, FL (University of Florida, got to see Tim Tebow practicing)