Traveling + Medifast

I wrote this entry while on the road last week when I had little internet service. While it did happen last week, I thought it would still be good to share. And I can give you an update with what happened.

I travel for work. Sometimes a little, lately it's a lot. I find myself between a rock & a hard place when it comes to being on the road and staying true to the diet. When I go somewhere I like to go exploring. I like to see local treasures, sight see, try new restaurants, take advantage of everything. Right now I don't trust myself in a restaurant. I usually have a plan of ordering something good for me or planning to eat only a certain amount of things on the plate. But things never seem to go as planned.

I am in Brooklyn this week for work. I am not 100% sure but I think Brooklyn is known for their bagels & their cheesecake. Ugh! I am trying to be good. I brought every single meal with me for the trip. It is easy to do that on this plan as long as their is a fridge at the hotel. I am proud of myself for that. It is getting hard though. It is my 3rd and final night here and I want to treat myself. I will say that I am being pushed to the limit. Because of scheduling conflicts, we are training for 9 hours today. Yesterday it was 5 hours, tomorrow will be 5-6 hours. So being in the training room for this long is a challenge. Whenever I am not up training the group or preparing for the next time I have to speak, my mind wanders. Most of the time it wanders directly to food. It also doesn't help when the trainee's bring bags of wonderfully, delicious looking potato chips to share with the rest of the group. I have been "hankering" for some Frito's and here comes 3 snack bags of Frito's, a couple more Lay's Potato Chips (also a favorite), and some Doritio's (3rd favorite). It was so hard to resist the chips. I even considered asking one of the trainee's if I could have ONE of their Frito's - just to experience the taste. My co-worker helped by yelling at me. She gave me a hard time about wanting to cave. I needed some tough love at that point.

I have to learn to resist these feelings and these temptations because I am going to be on the road a LOT the next few weeks. This is week 1 of 7 weeks of travel in a row. Tough right?!

I mentioned a few posts ago that I had met my challenge of losing 30 pounds in my "Race to 30." I don't think I have given an update but I conveniently forgot one of the major rules of the race. Turns out I now have to maintain my weight loss for one month. I totally get it, I completely understand the purpose of this rule - but I am not a fan right now. I have had two bad eating weekends in a row. Last week I was able to stay completely on plan from Monday - Friday morning so I was able to lose all the weight that I had gained over the weekend. I had the same plan for this week too but the temptations are getting to be too strong. I am really trying to resist the temptations but I don't know how much longer I can do it.

I also usually eat dinner around 5:30 or 6pm. The training goes until 6pm, we have to pack up, drive to the hotel, get a meal for my co-worker and then head back to the hotel to eat. That seems like FOREVER from now.

I usually can pull myself back in by saying, "You want to win. You can do this." I don't know if I can do it today. And this frustrates me! I feel like I haven't changed at all during this weight-loss journey. I am starting to doubt my abilities to keep these 65 pounds off. I have to learn to fight past these cravings.

I hope I can make it through today's cravings. I hope I can blog tomorrow to let you know I was successful, that I didn't cave.

This is a toughy.........

So there you have it. This was a day that I really struggle with last week. It is a long enough post so I will post another quick one to let you know how it turned out.