Staying healthy while away from home can be incredibly challenging. Your gym schedule gets thrown out the window, the local grocery stores are filled with a totally different set of foods than you’re used to and you don’t always have a kitchen to cook up nutritious recipes or do meal prep.
So how do you keep from losing all of your progress while still enjoying your travels? Here are a few of my top tips for staying healthy while traveling….
Confession time: I am constantly craving salty foods. While some people can chow through an entire bag of chocolates with no problem, salty chips are my weakness.
The problem is that chips don’t do a lot in terms of nutrition. Sure, they can supply a full day’s worth of calories and sodium…but that’s about it.
Over the years, I’ve come to accumulate a growing collection of healthy alternatives to chips that can satisfy my “salt tooth” with a few added benefits….
I can remember the day I became a vegetarian pretty clearly. It was 5 years ago now–before I had even decided to become a dietitian and around the time my interest in nutrition was slowly starting to peak.
My older sister had already been a vegetarian for a few years at the time and I was finally at the point where my mom’s threats of “if you become a vegetarian, you have to cook for yourself” didn’t jolt me anymore.
So I set a date that was going to be day #1 of no meat…and then I drove to Panda Express and ordered orange chicken….
If you’re like me, red wine is pretty much the answer to everything.
Stressed out after a long day at work? Time to open up a bottle!
Celebrating a special holiday, promotion, or just the fact that you survived another week? A glass of red wine, it is!
Depressed because of that huge pile of bills on the table? Might as well spend that last $20 in your pocket on a bottle of red wine to make you feel better!…
