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Trips Are Hard On Diets

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June, July, and August are traveling months. Vacations to the beach. We just finished a week in St. Augustine. Trips are hard on the diet. I can say that from experience and will be the first to say I’m not always good at sticking to the plan.

Inhibitions are low; after all, we are on a vacation and won’t get back here for another year. How do we get past the temptation obstacle? I won’t say it’s easy to get around this tall impediment. With every temptation, there is a way of escape if you look for it.

First, you have to ask, do you want to escape? If you just are not going to resist, then choose the better options. Maybe you can split a salad or choose the small steak. I have found that after several days of salads, the desire to eat a hamburger gets stronger and stronger. You have to walk extra or really decide to opt out for the high calories stuff. We chose not to eat a pastry at a coffee shop we visited. It’s hard.

Second, avoid temptation. Don’t go to a place where you will be tempted. Charlene will tell me, you don’t need that pecan log. We have found a couple Peanut Shops on our trips. One was in Williamsburg and the other in Savannah. They have samples sitting out. Step away from the peanuts Jack. We go in and take a sample, two, or three. We didn’t buy a big can of chocolate covered peanuts. We just sampled some. We should have stayed out, but we couldn’t or wouldn’t is more like the case. In fact, in Williamsburg we went in every time we were in the area. I’m a sucker for free samples.

Temptation. If you can’t avoid it, deal with it. I’m working on that part. Temptation begins when one of your senses pick up a trigger. I see cookies. Like the Sesame Street cookie monster, we might say “Me want cookie!”, “Me eat cookie!” Yes, we want the cookie. There is the point of temptation. We only have two choices—yes or no. It’s not a clear choice because I’m convinced if we always say no, then eventually we will blow up. On our latest trip, we divided a cookie. Maybe that would work it into the daily calorie count. Probably a no would be best most of the time.

Temptations will present themselves. As my inner self says, “deal with it Jack.”

 

Travel To Gatlinburg

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Today we are traveling to Gatlinburg Tennessee. It’s one of our favorite places. It’s also fairly close by. Once again we are faced with trip obstacles, or as some say, vacation obstacles. We have a number of favorite places we like to eat and they all scream to go off our diet. Even in maintenance mode, we have to watch our eating. I’ve gained 15 pounds on one vacation. I don’t want that to happen. If you normally follow a low carb diet, eating carbs will just add pounds quickly. Once again, it is about resolve and relying on God’s grace. His grace is sufficient even for traveling. We stay in a resort and have a full kitchen so we don’t have any excuses for not eating right. However, we usually find an excuse to fit, such as we are sightseeing during lunchtime so we need to eat. Though it is often true, it doesn’t have to be a setback if you choose carefully. On the other hand, if experience is true, we will probably not choose diet on occasion. That’s when we have to walk, walk, walk. We do love to walk the trails in the mountains.

 

Weigh-in and Travel Day

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Today is weigh-in day and travel day. We are heading to Ormond Beach for a week of relaxation. We’ve been here several times so know where to find good food. But we are going to keep our weight loss progress moving forward.

Here are some practical thoughts. If you haven’t been into the National Weight Control Registry, you need to do that when you have time to surf the web. To be a member the criteria is strict. If you are at least 18 years of age and have maintained at least a 30 pound weight loss. Then you answer their detailed questionnaires. Needless to say I’m not a member. But they find a lot of interesting information on successful dieters. Here is one.

Take your cue from dieters on the National Weight Control Registry who’ve lost 66 pounds (on average) and kept it off:

-75% weigh themselves at least once a week.

-78% are breakfast eaters.

-62% limit TV to less than 10 hours a week.

By the way all you scale haters, did you notice the first line. They weigh at least once a week—at least 75% of successful dieters do. And they aren’t couch potatoes either.

 

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Speak the Word Over You Dieting

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Today is a travel day. We have been in St. Augustine or just north of it for a week. It’s next door to Golf Hall of Fame. You can go in and walk the mile loop around the lake in the center of the village. There haven’t been many stores around the lake for some time. Do like to go to Caddy Shack for dinner.

Trips are an obstacle to dieting. But we already have learned that we are conquerors over trip obstacles. We are what the Bible—the Word—says we are. It’s more than just what we think, it’s what we believe. It’s what’s in our heart. Whatever is in our heart comes out our mouth. Speaking the promises ensures they are indelibly entrenched in our heart.

“Let’s keep a firm grip on the promises that keep us going. He always keeps his word” (Hebrews 10:23 MSG). It’s the Word that has the power to help us overcome. Jesus is the Word.

“So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it” (Isaiah 55:11 NKJV). Speak the promises. Send forth the Word to overcome even in dieting.

 

Weigh-in and Resort Exercise

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Today is weigh-in day here at St. Augustine. Actually we are staying north of St. Augustine next to the Golf Hall of Fame. One thing I like about staying here is I can look out over the golf course from a screened-in balcony—no flying bugs to bother you. It’s also a little cooler her in October.

We are also not far from the beaches. We particularly like a beach in South Ponte Vedra along highway A1A. You can also walk through the downtown area of St. Augustine looking in the shops and sampling the local cuisine. There are plenty of ways to get some walking in the daily activities.

It’s important to keep the body moving. And that’s especially true on trips. Because there’s a chance we might stop in at the 50 flavors popcorn place or the 30 flavors ice cream place or a lunch at the gelato place, we need to counter it with walking…or just keep on walking past these enticing shops.

bg-WGVThe resort has a large swimming pool and a fitness room, Ping-Pong tables and other sport activities including tennis, basketball, and volleyball. We don’t usually participate in those things, but we do get in some walking.

Tomorrow we head back home and back to a normal schedule for us.

 

We Are Diet Overcomers

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Passing trucks, Lots of trucks
Passing trucks, Lots of trucks

 

I’ve done many blogs on the obstacles to dieting and weight loss. We all know the difficulties. If you read diet blogs you will hear plenty about the struggles and the problems when dieting. I get it. It’s hard when you are trying your best to diet.

Do you look at the obstacles and say woe is me or do you look at all the problems and say I’m more than a conqueror through Christ. “Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us” (Romans 8:37).

Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. What’s in your heart? Do you speak, I can’t do this. Or do you say I can conquer this because God is with me. Paul says “all these things.” All means all. That, my friend, includes dieting. “No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us” (Romans 8:37 NLT).

The battle is the Lord’s. Our job is to rest in what He is doing and has done. Are you beginning to feel that your can easily overcome this diet thing?