I missed my 3FCers so much!
Wedding recap - it was raining, but beautiful. We only have a couple of photos back, but I think that this one is my favorite so far. There was a children's birthday party going on next to the room where we were taking photos...these little girls ran out, all wide-eyed, and asked me if I was the bride. I said yes - they gave me a bunch of balloons. So adorable.
Funnily enough, while I obviously wasn't going to the gym the days of the wedding/rehearsal dinner, I got some good walking in, and I definitely didn't eat much. In fact, I craved oatmeal the couple of days before. And at the wedding, I barely ate at all - too many people to talk to. And it all went soooo quickly!
Then we got to the honeymoon. I'm not going to claim perfection...my "go to the gym" plan got sidelined after only two days on board. My dinners were not all that great though they weren't too bad either - chicken breasts, lean proteins, and surprisingly small portions - the alcohol was a lot more than normal, and there was copious dessert going on. Also, we ate a LOT of chocolate dipped strawberries, which were delivered nightly to our room because my sister purchased us a honeymoon package.
I did do a lot of things right, though...I think I walked more than I had ever walked in my life in those ten days. On day 1, I made an agreement with myself - no elevators except if I was wearing high heels. We were on deck 9, the food was primarily on decks 5 and 14, and the main public areas/pools were on 14-15....not to mention all the walking from the front of the boat and back again. And even in heels, I mostly just took the stairs everywhere...definitely helped with keeping my physical activity up. We also walked everywhere in the ports and had at least one VERY active horseback excursion. I would have been at the gym a bit more, but we both got colds on the tail end of the trip, and my lungs were not happy with doing anything more than the lots of walking. This pic is from after our horseback ride - we got to swim while on horseback...so cool.
Food wise, I also made some good choices along with some of the not-so-great ones. Sarah and I split most of our appetizers/desserts if we ordered them at all. The second day I went up to the buffet area for breakfast - it was a mistake...knowing that the yummy, but unhealthy, breakfast foods were a little too tempting, we started getting room service delivery - skim milk, all-bran or raisin bran, fruit and coffee. The few days that we ended up at the breakfast buffet, I had oatmeal, which I was still randomly craving. I didn't avoid all of the less-healthy foods on the ship - they had amazing pizza and a grill with great burgers. But a typical lunch would consist of a giant salad from the salad bar with fat free dressing, along with one slice of that amazing pizza, so it wasn't too bad. Of course, the days we ate lunch in port were not as good - but we tried to stick to fajitas rather than deep-fried things. So other than dinners and dessert, I actually stuck on plan fairly well. We also made a habit of buying giant bottles of water at port (cheaper than on the boat!) so we could try to stay hydrated. I also bought a soda card so I could get unlimited club soda with a lime wedge...it helped with the hydration.
The scale has yet to render a final verdict (right now its up a scary 8 lbs, but its TOM AND I am retaining water because of all of the sodium we ate that we don't typically, so I'm 99% sure that a lot of that 8lbs is going to drop off within the week...I go up 5 typically with TOM alone). In any case, it was an amazing experience, and if it sets me back a few lbs, I am OK with it. But we are back today (went to the grocery store the day we got back, stocked up on veggies and whole grains, and are watching the water). I -may- go to the gym tonight but my cold is still holding on and I don't want to push it. By next week, though, we will be back to the normal routine.
I'm back and missed everyone!
