July 11
Another place where this programming really applies: Airports and Vacation Mentality. Anybody besides me start their vacation eating in the car or in the airport, so that by the time you even get there you are already thoroughly derailed? Somehow that food feels like it shouldn’t count – especially when time changes are involved. Either I get thrown off my schedule, think I am entitled to extra meals because I have extra hours in my day or am up during the night, or just because it is served to me. I noticed this pattern (hard to miss, trust me) a long time ago and decided that I needed to create sort of “skinny day bookends” on my trip by getting ahold of my behavior en route to vacation. That was even before they sold anything reasonable at the airport, and the airplane food was something I ALWAYS regretted having wasted calories on.
What really turned out to be a great by-product of this was that I often got through the first few days of vacation relatively unscathed because I was on a good roll when I got there. I sort of hated to ruin it. When I got home, I already had a day on track, so I didn’t fall victim to that “as long as I already ate this badly on vacation, let me just add another week of overeating at home to the cumulative caloric total before I “get back on track”.
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