Week 7 Vacation
This week my family took a small 4 day vacation to Niagara Falls. I thought that spending 4 days out vacationing might not be the best thing in following a BFL plan. But I tried to eat right, get my workouts in and try to keep to a good regimen. Glad to say that when I came home there was a small reduction in weight about .2 pound loss and after I worked out this morning I weighed in at 185.8, a loss of 2.4 pounds from last week. I reached my goal!!!
This was tough but I'll talk about some of the things I did to keep my progress going. First, I brought my blender with plenty of shake mixes. We always ate two big meals. First was breakfast (all you can eat buffet) I would typically have scrambled eggs, hash browns, 4 slices of bacon and mixed fruit. (maybe some frwnch toast) We would eat about 10 in the morning. After breakfast we would spend the next 3-4 hours on various tours walking everywhere. The Falls is beautiful, it was the first time I was there. We did the maiden of the mist tour, a great leg workout in itself. We saw the falls from underneath or behind. We went to the live butterfly exhibit and botanical gardens. 30,000 butterflys of all different types in one large place. The garden with all the flowers was breathtaking. We would get back to the hotel in the afternoon and I would get a workout in while my wife was getting ready for the evening.
The workout facilities at Tthe Hilton were pitiful, but I improvised and got in great workouts in. They had a four position ancient all in one workout machine. My first workout was legs. The machine had a station that you could do leg curls and extentions, so that was ok. For leg presses I used the bench station, laid on my back and pushed up on the bar for a chest press to do my leg presses.(pretty impressive adaptation) This hit the legs at an angle that I ususlly don't get at the LA Fitness I go to, so I really got to work out my legs as good as I could. For calves there was nothing except for a raised base of the machine, so I did calf raises three ways (straight, toes in and toes out) until I could do no more. I probably did 200 calf raises total, but I did get a great burn and all inn all it was a great leg workout. Situps could be done anywhere and so I ended the workout with ab crunches.
Two days later I did upper body, and even though the machine was well worn, I got in an acceptable upper body workout. Nothing earth shattereing but enough to get the muscles fatigued. After my workout I would make a shake in my room and the get ready for the evening. We would then maybe go shopping or go to the casino before dinner. Prior to dinner I would have another shake.
We would all meet for a late dinner and typically I would have a steak, baked potato and vegatables. I had a shared dessert one evening (apple pie with a smmmallll scoop of ice cream). Anyway, I thought that I would come home with a weight gain like I always do when I go on vacation (always). But this time was different. I got my workouts in, even though they were not first thing in the morning. I ate as right as I could ( two big meals and two shakes a day),and when it was over and I was home my weight was surprisingly where I didn't think it would be.
This is probably the first vacation I took where I didn't gain weight and I ate well. So everyone out there it can be done, just plan it and follow your plan and hopefully you will do as well as I have done. Vacations will not bother me in the future because I know now that I can conquer this mindset of with a vaction come a gain in weight. And I won this time.
