Journey through Fitness and Health: Vacation Time!

It's time for our annual vacation with my family! Can I tell you I love my family. I have wonderful parents who host us and are super fun to hang out with. My brother Rich is married to my bestie Stacie and they have two of the greatest kids ever, Brandon and Jason.

We visit my Mom and Dad in Myrtle Beach. It is a great time of family hang out with beach, pool, and shopping time. But we also love and I mean love to eat good. And this is what I will say about eating on vacation for me. I will enjoy myself. I will make decisions that I wouldn't if I wasn't on vacation. I will also work out and stick to my program. So I do stay on track with my fitness just not with the diet part of things.

And do you know what happens YOU CAN'T OUT WORKOUT A BAD DIET! If you know this then just know you will probably gain weight when you indulge in the goodies. Be prepared mentally and physically for it and be okay with it if you are going to make decisions to eat things like Krispy Kreme donuts, root beer floats, fried foods. You get the point. I am personally making these decisions and even though I have been working out pretty hard core each morning with a run and doing T25 with Shaun T, I am still gaining weight at a pretty fast rate. When we got here I weighed in at 143.5 and today I weighed in at 147.5. Yep that's going up pretty fast.

So why am I sharing this with you? Because I want to be real. I want you to know that I really really indulge on vacation. I want you to know that I'm human too. That I want to eat all the things that we all crave. That I gain weight too and will have to get back on track when I get home. But that's just the thing, I WILL get back on track. I will commit to healthy eating. I will continue my program. I hold myself accountable and I hope you will hold me accountable too. I will let my challengers know that I'm back and ready to kill it with them. If you can relate with me HIGH FIVE!

Here's a few photos of our fun times.