School starts in exactly one week.  I have spent my summer interning, working, took a class, and working some more.  I didn’t get a vacation.  My internship is over on Wednesday *WOO* and I will be heading down to Nashville, TN, for a weekend of good times with some of my closest friends/family.

So, since I am heading down either Thursday evening or Friday night, I have decided to set some goals for the weekend.

1. Bring my own snacks.  I tend to do better on my diet when I am able to snack.  Providing my own will help keep me focused.
2. Go for diet drinks.  This is my downfall, whenever I go on a diet I have to stop drinking soda completely.  Mainly because I hate diet soda.  It’s one of those things once you start, you can’t stop.  So if we’re go out, I will opt for diet instead of regular.
3. Find some time to excercise.  Thankfully Nashville is one of those towns that everything is lumped together so you walk everywhere, that will help.  I am going to put together a “plan” of excercises that I could do while I am there.
4. Remember portions.  The biggest thing that I am changing is my portion control.  If I can do that, especially when I am out, I think I will be good.

I’ve also found a cool article, on how to stay on your diet while you’re on your vacation.  You can find their tips after the jump.

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Since I started this blog, I have been looking for articles, and I have a ton to post, but I don’t want it to be one of those blogs where I just post articles all the time.  I want to do fun things, and maybe get people reading the blog.  But, I found this one the other day and decided today would be a good day to put it up.

It has 5 Ways to Avoid Cheating on your Diet.  It really is a pretty great article, and everything kind of makes sense.  I’m going to post the 5 ways and then my thoughts on them.

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My biggest issue that I’m having is that I am not a big morning eater and I love to eat at night.  Take for instance now, I’m sitting at my desk with a perfectly good banana and have yet to touch it, but if it’s 10 at night, and I’m sitting there watching television, I will want to eat.

I know it’s important to eat all three meals, especially breakfast, but I struggle to adjust.  I did however find a really cool article that gave Five Reasons {opens in a new window} why we SHOULD eat breakfast, and after reading it, I don’t think I will struggle anymore.  Here are the reasons from the article, make sure you check it out.
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