diet + travel = not friends

i am finally back from my trip to pa for work. it was a good trip business wise, i learned a lot, saw some great things, and met some fun people. on the diet side of the trip... not so great.

i did pretty well the first day i was gone. the hardest part was lunch since it is really hard to find something "on plan" in the airport. i did go to the grocery store when i finally got in to easton so i could at least get some bottles of water, fruit, and veggies. i wanted to make sure i would be getting those in. i have noticed over my travels that fruit is the hardest part for me to get outside of breakfast. wednesday i still did alright but again nothing was really straight to plan. it is difficult to stick exactly to plan when you aren't cooking, and even harder when you don't actually have a selection to choose from (i.e. the company providing you lunch). thursday was the same story, but thursday night i was really "bad". i had chinese. what made this worse... it wasn't even good chinese! :o( the other bad part about wednesday and thursday was i had a few beers with one of the fellas from UK. beer is a really big no no since it is empty calories. finally, friday was probably the worst out of all of it. i had fast food for 2 of the meals and then mom and i had mexican for dinner.
beyond the not eating correctly and drinking beer, i also wasn't getting all of my water in, i had diet coke (i usually would have had diet sprite or something along those lines), and i wasn't getting my second supplement in. so needless to say i didn't do so hot on the whole diet thing. luckily, the fact that i did stick to plan a little bit and took the carb blockers i only gained about 4lbs back. this shouldn't be that hard for me to get back off if i do a water flush AND remove my starches for 3 days.
the funny thing about this is that i feel icky. not so much that i feel guilty about not eating according to plan but the unhealthy food, specifically the fast food and diet coke, made me feel like i was dragging, bloated, and my stomach even hurt a little bit yesterday. i think over the past few weeks my body has gotten used to not having that gross stuff in there so throwing it back in in a larger quantity made a big difference in how i feel. oh well, it is back to plan today and so far so good.
tip for today is about motivation when you have a set back like this. my motivation yesterday/today came in a song i heard on my way home from my parents house. it is a song my sixx am which is actually about using drugs, but hey it worked for me in this situation. it is called "accidents can happen". basically the lyrics said "accidents can happen, and it's okay. we all fall off the wagon sometimes. it's not your whole life, it's only one day! you haven't thrown everything away!!!" what a great thought for me to keep going. when it would have been easy for me to say screw it this is too hard, i already screwed it up, i just needed to realize that it was only one day (or one trip if you will). i can fix this and keep going, this set back doesn't mean the end. so off we go again! :o)