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How To Eat Healthy While Traveling
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Eating healthy is hard enough for any frequent
traveller. Be it by lots of flying or constant tours
by road. You get into traffic jams.
You stop at fast food shops. Lack of excercise and fresh air.
If you travel a lot, and it becomes that much harder. While at home you
can shop for all the healthy items you desire, take them home and prepare
them in the healthy style you are trying to perfect.
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Try to avoid fast food
in large amounts
Most fast food restaurants have a limited menu that is crammed
packed with processed meats, potatoes that have been deep fried
in oil and sugar filled lemonades, all of which have little or no
nutritional value.
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Furthermore, they are very high
in fat content. If you have no other choices and find yourself
at a fast food restaurant, there are always healthy choices you
can make to avoid the high fat food groups.
For example, most now have salads and grilled chicken options.
Whenever possible, eat at restaurants where you can sit down and
be served by a waitress or waiter.
Forget the time schedule. You need time to choose
and eat. A short walk after lunch will help to ease the body's
discomfort.
Carefully look over the menu before you order. Make
sure the restaurant has the healthy foods you are looking for.
For your breakfast you going to choose places that will serve
fresh fruit, or yogurt, eggs, oatmeal, and whole wheat toast
without the butter.
Most hotels serve all the healthy items listed above
so you should have no trouble finding the healthy start to
your day.
The trouble is most hotels also serve the unhealthy breakfast as
well, as pleanty of their guests wish to get the unhealthy choice.
For lunch, you are looking for grilled chicken, tuna, rice, fresh greens
salads, fresh steamed vegetables, and even egg salad is fine
as long as it is not in mayonnaise that has a high fat content.
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When ordering dressing keep
in mind creamy dressings are high in fat and are to be avoided.
For dinner, just as with lunch and breakfast you are
trying to avoid fried food and high calorie foods. |
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Turkey, tuna, salmon, whitefish, and of course chicken (grilled)
along with a salad or fresh vegetables offer your best alternatives
to the burgers and fries.
Late in the day you also want to avoid excess carbohydrates.
In most cases, after you eat dinner you are not going to be very
active, so keep the carbohydrate levels and fat content low in your
dinner meal.
Don't allow yourself to go to long without eating. When you
let a few hours go by without eating and let yourself get to the
point where you feel like you are starving, your sugar levels drop
and your body craves something sweet.
Furthermore, at this point and time is when you will break down
and eat fast food just to get something into your body quickly
to satisfy your incredible hunger.
Pack some meal replacement bars with you for every trip. There
are so many to chose from, you should have no trouble finding one
that tastes good. By having a few bars handy to eat in between meals
you accomplish a number of different things.
First, you are getting the protein your body needs to sustain
lean muscle. |
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Second, you
are eating a healthy snack to prevent your blood sugar from dropping and
third you have avoided the craving for sweets and the quick fix
foods your body will want to satisfy your hunger pains. Lastly,
by consuming bars between meals will help you to eat
five to six smaller meals each day, which in turn helps to naturally
speed up your metabolism. |
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Avoid fried foods and foods
prepared in butter or cream sauce, both are high in fat.
Also, remember to avoid ordering the extra potato
and tortilla chips, as they are unnecessary calories.
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