Keeping it up during a trip

Weighed myself today: 98kg. It will go down eventually, I'm sure!

I'm leaving town for ten days, visiting my boyfriend. I'm a little nervous, because we always drink too much when we're together, and alcohol has so many calories! He's also one of those lucky people who's always hungry, can eat three big meals a day plus snacks and still be slim.  So I don't know how to keep up the good work of the past three days without a scale (to measure food), and with temptation around.

But, on the other hand, I will not always have a scale around, will I? And if this is to be sustainable, I need to learn how to live without it, sooner rather than later.


The goals for the next ten days are:

• Minimise the amount of alcohol I drink, without becoming unsociable. Some wine with food is surely not catastrophic, but I have to limit it to one glass, which will be a serious challenge for me. After dinner, I can have tea instead of more vino. I can swap beer for diet coke at pubs, and it will be ok to have the odd cocktail (vodka or gin with diet tonic) every now and then.
• Aim to stop eating BEFORE I GET FULL.This is the most important and by far the hardest thing to do, especially when I don't measure my portion.
• Make a point of getting salad and having it as part of dinner every night. My boyfriend is English and I don't think he does that regularly. But I think I can prevail on that one. Besides, if he doesn't want it, nobody will force him to have it.
• Avoid stupid calories at all costs. These include: french fries (or chips, as they call them here), sweets, desserts, etc. My boyfriend is not a dessert person, so that won't be too hard when we eat together, but it might be an issue when I'm alone (and hungry) or with a good friend who lives there and whom I'll see for coffee from time to time.
• Try to move around. Regularly, I walk quite a bit every day, because my office is a 20-25min brisk walk from my house, and I do that twice a day. But I will not have an office for the next ten days, so I know that it will be tempting to just stay at home all day and do work from there. That's ok, but I should try to get out for a good walk daily, maybe during lunch break. The perfect thing would be if I could convince my boyfriend to go for a walk after dinner, but I think that will be too much to ask.

OK, well, this sounds like a plan! I will try to have fun and not have my whole life spin around this "new eating plan" thingy, and hopefully the scales won't be completely unforgiving when I come back.