#WIAW and a Weigh-in: Keeping it #fitbloggin real

I just spent 5 glorious days in Savannah, GA for the FitBloggin conference.  (More on the conference later.)

If you know anything about Savannah, it's not the healthiest place to eat.

I mean, they deep fry EVERYTHING!

From their tomatoes....

to their Moon Pies.....

for the record - it was TO DIE FOR

Savannah even has this neat little law that allows you to walk down the street with booze.

I know, right?!?!

Needless to say, as hard as I tried to stick to "paleo-ish", there were a lot of things I ate and drank that did not fit the bill.  One session I went to at FitBloggin pointed out that we can "choose to fail".  Last weekend, I chose to allow myself to "fail" without punishing myself for doing so.  My body punished me plenty after the one day I drank 4 beers (over the course of the day, but still).  Lesson learned at 1 am.

My indulging rewarded me with an extra 4.8 pounds on the scale.  Now, I KNOW I did not gain 4.8 pounds of fat this weekend and the majority of this is water from eating carbs and drinking booze.  I'm choosing to not stress too much about this.  Hopefully the extra pounds will be gone next week though because I'd hate to think I blew 8 weeks of healthy eating and weightloss in a single weekend.  But if I did, then I need to accept that.

Something About Me Saturday: Travel

I have a few more questions to answer before I get to a 2nd completed 20 questions page.  Earlier this week I rewrote the 12 Days of Christmas and today's post is going to deal with travel.

I can't remember who sent in this question (sorry!) but it was a good one. 

What's the most interesting place you've visited? 

I love to travel.  That much is obvious in the fact I picked trips for about 25% of my dream 12 Days of Christmas gifts :) Probably the most interesting place I've visited was in Mexico.  It's hard to pick just one place, though.  I stayed at a resort in Cozumel but driving to and from the airport and town was eye opening.  I couldn't believe the poverty just outside the walls of our swanky resort (and we weren't even in one of the REALLY nice ones!).  I felt a little guilty, to be perfectly honest.  While on that trip, we also took the ferry over to the mainland and went to Tulum and Xel Ha.  They were unbelievably beautiful and I highly recommend going. I wish I had pictures to show you, but they would be on the hard drive that crashed many years ago. I know Cozumel has a Ironman triathlon - if I ever get super crazy ambitious, maybe this would be a good one :)

My 2nd choice would probably be St. Lucia - this is where I've gone SCUBA diving and zip lining for the first time, and the sunsets were incredible.  I can't believe it's been 5 years.  If there is ever a race here, I'd be totally up for going back.

What's the most interesting place you've ever visited?

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