Vacation Wins🖤 · Breakthrough Body Blueprint

Vacation Wins🖤

I wanted to share this, because it's a testament to the fact that you can eat all kinds of food and enjoy living while maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Darren recommends incorporating treats into our diet so that we can find a sustainable way of living that allows us to feel both healthy and happy. I want to share my real-life success story of doing just that.

In the past, when I went on a vacation I would have stomach issues, gain several pounds, feel bloated and uncomfortable from overheating, and return home with regret over the choices I made which would result in feeling bad about myself and emotionally beating myself up over it.

This Disney trip was our first big vacation since I've made this shift in my lifestyle, and I am so amazed by how much of a difference I noticed.

Wins:

-Stomach issues gone (this alone is life-changing) ✔️

-Lost 2.1lbs and 0.6% body fat (I know these numbers will continue to fluctuate some as they do)💪🏼

-Tried and appreciated every food I wanted to try without guilt🥨

-Mood overall better🧘🏼‍♀️

-More patience with kids (though not perfect of course)👧🏼

-Confident in my appearance = overall more comfortable = better experience🏆

Here are the things I did to achieve those wins:

-Steps!!! The power of walking is so underrated. Step count ranged from 13,430 to 24,433 (not including travel days)🚶🏼‍♀️

-Tracked everything I ate in MFP, even when I only tried a bite of something 📝

-Planned for balance. Looked at what foods I wanted to try at each place the night before. If I knew I wanted nachos, I chose to have an apple and a protein shake that morning and skip the Mickey waffle platter I've had many times before⚖️

-Ate slowly and mindfully, stopping before I felt overly full🧠

-Drank lots of water and mostly only water💦

-Prioritized taking time to rest. Averaged around 8.5 hours of sleep/night (not including travel days)💤

-Incorporated my daily apples and protein shakes🥛

-Skipped the foods that didn't feel necessary (didn't just eat it because it was in front of me)🙌🏼

I'm feeling really grateful for solid support and good advice from good people!!! The boring stuff really does work when we're consistent and have patience, and what could be more worth it?

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