Jim KatsoulisJim AI — Your Personal Guide to Living at Your Goal Weight

vacation is not the time to lose weight

23 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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Jim Katsoulis argues that vacation is not the time to try to lose weight by eating perfectly; instead, people should enjoy vacations while practicing moderation. He warns that overly strict vacation dieting can lead to resentment and long-term setbacks when normal life resumes, and frames a realistic, moderate approach as better for sustained weight-management success.

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Vacation is not the time to lose weight. It's the time to enjoy yourself moderately instead of trying to eat perfectly on vacation and then feeling miserable because of it. Instead enjoy yourself, but practice being moderate with it. This is a much more realistic long term approach that sets you up for much bigger success in the bigger picture. Because one of the big mistakes I see people making is they'll eat perfect during vacation, but then when they get back they feel like they missed out on vacation and now they're pissed about it and now their eating goes off track for weeks or months. So instead, learn to be moderate when you go on vacation and enjoy yourself. The reason we focus on our weight during the off vacation times is so we can go on vacation and enjoy ourselves.