Traveling - Advice?

[dhoyt86]

So I have a business trip this week where I will be away from the gym Wednesday thru Friday. Luckily, it's a recovery week, so I am taking my laptop and I will be able to do X Stretch, Yoga, & Core Synergistics in my hotel room.

The problem is that I have gotten pretty spoiled with being able to go home for lunch and make my egg whites & veggies, or mix up a protein shake, and of course make the healthy dinner. Since I won't have the benefit of a kitchen for a couple days, I wanted to see if anyone had some good advice for getting by on the road...

Restaurants, simple meals, etc? I will be in Atlanta, GA, near Perimeter Mall area. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

-David

[FitRunner]

I'll be traveling this week as well. My plan is to stick to as simple food as I can find and to look up some restaurant foods ahead of time. I already know Applebee's weight watchers meals are a normal size and pretty simple, but I don't want to be stuck hunting for Applebee's only. I might also bring some trail mix for snacks, so I won't get caught in front of a doughnut display hungry. I will also ask restaurants to customize meals as necessary - leave off cheese or sauces or whatever I think sounds like a bad idea. You may be able to ask the hotel for eggbeaters or just eggwhites. You're paying, right? :)

[CyberFitnessGuru]

Book a hotel suite with a kitchenette and visit the local grocery store. :D

[FitRunner]

Book a hotel suite with a kitchenette and visit the local grocery store. :D

That may or may not be an option, depending on company policy in various ways. It wasn't for me. I also know I will be eating business meals with others, meaning I will have to eat wherever we end up with a minimum of fuss on my part.

Teresa

[Propnose]

My job keeps me on the road 16 days out of the month, and eating healthy on the road is a big challenge. I have found that based on my work schedule (which is rarely the same day in & day out) I eat one main meal a day. That meal is pretty much always a late lunch/early dinner. My typical eating schedule is like this:
Continental breakfast at the hotel (bowl of raisin bran, yogurt & fresh fruit, glass of O.J.). If I get hungry between breakfast and lunch I will eat a Larabar & drink water to hold me over, or grab an apple or banana from the front desk. For lunch, I am partly at the mercy of my two coworkers as far as where we eat. It is never fast food though and always a sit down restaurant, unless it is a sandwich shop. So I generally go with a salad or grilled chicken of some sort. If we have time for dinner, I will normally eat a lite dinner if I had a normal size lunch. Most of the time we are flying during lunchtime or dinnertime, so we rarely get to eat both meals in one day. I bring enough Larabars with me for the week to snack on so that I keep fueling my body. This seems to be working for me, as I feel satisfied throughout the day. I never eat any of the junk on the airplane and only drink water with my meals except for orange juice in the morning. I just received my first box of Shakeology, so I most likely will start bringing that with me as well.
I bring enough Larabars with me for the week to snack on.

[FitRunner]

Mark - Thanks for the Lärabar tip. I'm not big on bars but you're right, travel is a great time to 'use' them. Fits in a purse better and with less mess potential than my trail mix idea. Denser packing = ability to carry more ^^

Teresa

[scourtney7]

Mark I am so stoked about this afternoon! See you then buddy!!!!

[InnerStrength]

I had a four day trip to SD last month with another coming up this weekend. Last month I roamed across friends' houses so didn't have a hotel room- I planned ahead having one meal "out" per day (like Teresa and Mark, was at the mercy of friends' choices but such is life). I kept food light around the meals out- made a healthy muffin recipe having one in the morning with a protein shake for breakfast each day, I also packed almonds in one ounce servings (either snack sized baggies or the baby tuppeware) and apples as a snack, stopped by Trader Joe's and got single sized Greek yogurt and a banana for second snack, and stuck with veggies and protein as much as possible for meals out- worked out fine.

Try not to stress TOO much, if you can plan the majority of it out ahead of time, you should feel less stressed.

[Sterling]

Use intermittent fasting and eat as sensible as possible when you eat out. Use the trip as an opportunity for a free meal and enjoy it.