We got back from our vacation in Bermuda Thursday night. It was a great trip – Bermuda is so beautiful. We’ll definitely go back! While there I did a lot of swimming and walking and was happy to see I didn’t gain any weight, despite eating 3 large meals per day and dessert with either lunch or dinner. I did eat better than normal. I generally went for salads or fish if it was on the menu, but one night I did get veal. Yum… I’m a sucker for veal dishes. Not very PC, but I don’t give a crap. I grew up on it with my mother making her weiner schnitzel… and I had it almost every day when we honeymooned in Rome 6 years ago. Ahhh… Rome. I miss Rome. That was the one place I cried about leaving and still feel ‘home sick’ for it now. I told my husband we were retiring in Rome – I wasn’t kidding. =) I did gain 10lbs in 10 days when we were there, but I had just finished starving myself for our wedding, so no surprise there. And the food is so good… and I think we drank a bottle of wine every night with dinner, where normally we may have a glass or two per week… but I don’t regret it.
Anyway… I’m just really happy and feel really good about how I ate while on vacation. Probably the first time ever. I normally go hog wild and then feel like complete and total crap when we get home. Not this time! =D I just finished working out, too and feel amazing. I’m glad to be back, though. Back to routine, my yoga room, my food. I realized while on vacation that I really do eat a lot less than I used to. And I normally do wait until I’m hungry before eating… and I’ve gotten better about snacking on fruit and nuts inbetween smaller meals. In Bermuda we didn’t snack, and because I did do a lot of swimming, stair-climbing and walking [I have the blisters to prove it!], I was FAMISHED at meal time, I’d eat too fast and get stuffed a lot quicker than I would have expected… even though I was eating healthier – or making healther vacation meal choices – I could have done with less if we were able to snack more between meals. We know next time to get on the bus, go to St. George’s to the little grocery store on York St. and buy some healthy snacks to keep at the hotel in our little fridge. Live and learn, right? That’s what it’s all about. =)
I took that photo of Tobacco Bay on our way down from Fort St. Catherine’s as we walked back to town. It didn’t rain, thankfully, but we did get the most amazing dark & stormy sky… just gorgeous. Everything was a picture. I took about 400 in the 6 days we were there. I’ll post more here and there. =)
