
I’m writing this post on a four hour Amtrak train ride from Boston to New York, wrapping up a nine day trip with my husband.
Travel strategy is fresh in my head, and since it’s been a few months since my last post, I wanted to catch up with everyone here!
(Links updated, 2024. Originally written in 2017)
Today I’m sharing a bit of what worked and what didn’t along our travels these last seven days. To make this trip happen, we DROVE
from our home in Atlanta in our minivan to South Florida, dropped our three kids off with my parents there and took a PLANE
to New York. Then we took the AMTRAK train
to Boston and then back to New York where we will catch a PLANE
back to South Florida and will drive back home to Atlanta. 
Phew. And YES we are very grateful for my parents wanting to binge watch their grandchildren. 
PERFECT isn’t a thing….especially on vacation.
I am proud to say that we are not PERFECT people. I ate steak once on this trip. And had a bit of ice cream. And on the Amtrak I ate a microwaved sandwich. Oh Lordy Be I was starving. I even joked to my husband…”you know <insert any health blogger here> would say that they just FAST if there’s nothing healthy to eat”….as I bit into my rubbery sandwich. <sigh>
These are obviously not everyday healthy choices and definitely not anti-cancer. But it has been 9 years since my cancer diagnosis and more than 8 years since remission. It’s nice at this point to occasionally have a treat that I enjoy and loosen the obsessiveness and intensity this lifestyle can create.
I still struggle with guilt sometimes about eating food I typically don’t eat (especially sugar when I rarely do,) but I’ve learned over the years that if I choose to do it, I’m going to let it go and enjoy the moment.
I’ve also learned that I don’t eat a lot of it. With sugar in particular too much of it makes me feels sick. Even if I order the kid-sized portions I usually don’t even finish that.
It’s nice to open up a bit to you all today. Sometimes it is easier to keep the stuff I eat that I’m not so proud of to myself, but I’m a real person and “Mom!” to three kids. It’s nice to RELAX the rules and rigidity sometimes.
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