Fat Loss While Traveling

Summer is often the time for travel. But whether your remaining summer travel plans include business travel on your own or a final beach blast with the family, here are some ideas to make sure your weight loss workout program doesn’t get left behind.

You can take fresh fruit, nuts, protein bars, healthy sandwiches, and other easy-to-pack foods in the car or on the plane. Airport security checkers won’t stop you from taking snacks on an airplane – it’s just liquids that you can’t carry on.

If you must eat at the airport, go to the sit-down restaurants. They offer a wider range of alternatives and since the food it made to order, you can ask for substitutions for unhealthy items.

Bring along an empty water bottle. You’ll stay hydrated and save a lot of money by not buying bottled water at the airport. You can fill it from a water fountain once you get past the security checkpoint. If tap water doesn’t excite you, you can add single-serving packets of ice tea, Crystal Light or many sports drinks for flavor. Drinking water will help you avoid the temptation of expensive, overpriced sodas, smoothies and juices sold at airport kiosks.

Experts say that the more you write down what you eat, the more weight you will lose. Even if you don’t keep a food journal as part of your daily weight loss workout program, writing down what you eat while traveling will keep you mindful of watching what you eat. If you have a regular schedule of snacking, stick to it while on vacation. Writing down your snacks will help you remember to stick to your plan.

Make a rule that you aren’t going to drink any calories while traveling for business and you’ll cut thousands of calories from your diet. That means avoiding sugary sodas, smoothies and alcohol. If you are at a business dinner where you are expected to drink, just have a wine or light beer and nurse it slowly.

Plan ahead and have a strategy for what and when you are going to eat and drink. What business lunches, dinners or other functions are you committed to attending? How are you going to handle them? Think ahead regarding what you will eat and drink and then stick to your plan.

Most exercise programs often encourage a reward meal or day once a week. For that meal or day, you can eat or drink anything you want as a reward for sticking to the program. Make one of your travel days your reward day.

Many times you can best handle temptation by avoiding it. Don’t take the key to your hotel room’s mini-bar when you are checking in. If there are snacks available in the room, call the hotel concierge and politely ask that they be removed. You’ll not only save a lot of calories, you’ll save a lot of money as well.

Go online before you leave and look up restaurants near your hotel. Look at their menus online and think about what you will order when you get there.

Visit a local market and stock up on healthy drinks and snacks. Or ask at the front desk for food stores that deliver to your hotel. If your hotel room doesn’t have a refrigerator, consider buying a cheap Styrofoam cooler and leaving it behind for the hotel staff when you leave. Or for a more permanent solution, buy a collapsible soft-sided cooler that you can take will you. Fill it with ice from the icemaker or bar and you’ll have cold drinks and healthy snacks available whenever you want them.

Make in-room meals easy and save your calories for special occasions or business meals you need to attend. Stock up on easy, non-perishable foods like whole-grain bread, natural peanut butter, protein bars and fruit.

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