With med school starting at the end of this month, the next few weeks involve me traveling all over my state visiting family/friends. As was seen in my last post I learned what happens when I make a trip without a real plan. A comment on my last post asked me what my plan was and I realized I didn’t really have one. So I thought about it and decided to count my calories (aiming for 1200 to 1400 per day). I think that was sunday… I went to the grocery and bought a lot of fruit and “healthy” food that is low in calories to help. I left for a trip on monday and I got back home yesterday (thursday)… the difference was that this time I bought a small ice chest and packed fruit, tuna, cereal, fiber one bars, diet drinks, and diet tv dinners. I stuck to my guns and found a park to run my 2 miles /day at (except for one of the days). I also continued counting my calories and aimed at about 1200 per day. I did allow myself to splurge on one lunch (burrito, chips/queso & soft drink) because I knew I would be out in the texas heat doing a lot of physical work for most of the afternoon.

So what was the result? I got on the scale this morning and saw 136.0 !!!!!!!!!!! YAY!!!! this feels so much better than getting home and seeing a gain. While I’ve only lost 3 lbs total for someone my size I am happy with it. I have to work hard for every lb and I am proud. I am going to try to keep this up through the rest of my trips too; not to mention bringing my own food on trips saves me money