rmgerace
Disney Vacation Epiphanies!
May 04, 2010
So I just got back from my first real vacation in ten years. Well, maybe "vacation" is the wrong word to use since I spent ten days at Disney World...it was more like an exhausting adventure!
In ten days I walked a little shy of 27 miles and lost 9.9 pounds. I ate well, meaning I found foods I could eat, some of which I enjoyed a lot! I doubt some of those food choices were healthy but they were "good", if you catch my meaning...lol I had been really apprehensive about eating while I was away. I feared that I would get sick or have difficulty finding things I could tolerate, both these things were non-issues though.
My trip was filled with epiphanies...
I now fit very comfortably in an airline seat, and the belt was nowhere near the end of the length!
I can cross my legs easily now and I was even able to do this in the cramped airline seat.
As I looked around at the thousands of people at Disney, it became very obvious how completely overweight our society has become. In contrast to the masses, I am now smaller than more than half the people I saw. This was a huge WOW for me since I often viewed myself as one of the larger people within my surroundings.
Not one but two people who looked at my photos from my trip called me "tiny"...ME?!?!? TINY?!?!? Impossible, but true, the photos proved it.
When I went to buy a couple of t-shirts for myself, I instinctively went for the 1x, heck no. XL - nope, still too big. Large, okay.
It's hard to believe that only 5 months ago I was wearing a 1-2x.
Another thing this trip showed me is that I haven't been eating enough. 600-800 calories was keeping my loss at a standstill, but 1000-1100 kicks up my metabolism just enough to drop weight more effectively. It's so weird to comprehend you must eat more to lose weight, but its the truth, at least for me.
