This week has been a crazy one!  The Verizon Wireless Last Chance Summer Dance is tomorrow!  Although it will be one of the biggest concerts we’ve ever been a part of…my brain is ready to check out for vacation.  We’re going to Disney on SUNDAY!  Let’s just hope that the weather doesn’t screw with Erin’s first trip to see the mouse.  So much work to get done before I leave for vacation.  Basically, I have to set up the station to run on some sort of cruise control for the next week and in order to do that, I need to work twice as much this week.  It will all get done and everything will be fine.  I just want to be sitting in the Murphy SUV headed to see the mouse!  You know how it is with vacations….cant wait to get going and then somewhere towards the end-cant wait to get back.

While I’m on vacation with the family, I will still have to watch my diet and find some time for exercise.  I don’t want to screw up the hard work that I’ve put in over the last few months.  As of this morning, I’ve lost 27lbs!  I wanted to be at 30lbs by Sunday, by that’s probably not going to happen.  It’s ok, I’ll be happy with 27 and who knows what I might lose over the next few day?  Still sticking to the 1800 calories/5 days in the gym routine and it seems to be working.  The hotel we are staying at in Disney World doesn’t have a gym, so my trainer Renee (Life Center-Simpsonville) has given me these things called dynabands.  They are elastic exercise bands that you can use to work out with.  I did a short workout with them this morning and it seems like they will work for taking care of my upper body workout while we are on vacation.  I’ll get in legs and cardio while walking the 10+ miles a day they say you do at the Disney parks.  I’ll bring my pedometer to see how many steps I take each day.  We’ll see if I walk 10 miles or not.  Either way, I’ll get a workout in I am sure.

It’s funny how vacation used to be about eating my way through a town or vacation location.  You know, when you go somewhere and you plan out where you’re going to eat and with whom (if you are visiting somewhere with people you know).  Every time we go to Charleston it’s “Well, we’ll have dinner at Hanks with the Glover family and lunch with the Spencer family at Shem Creek”.  My diet and exercise have changed the way I vacation.  Don’t get me wrong.  I’m giving myself one or 2 meals where I’m going to HAVE FUN and eat something bad or drink something bad….It’s going to happen!  Yet, I think at this point I deserve it.  27lbs….it should at least win me an banana split?