Eating Healthy While Traveling
It’s difficult enough these days to maintain a healthy eating plan, let alone keep a healthy diet while traveling.
I am no stranger to maintaining a healthy eating plan while being on the road. I do a good amount of traveling myself, and my clients and readers are asking me all the time:
“Isabel, I am always on the go. How can I stick to my healthy eating plan and still live my life?”
If your days really have you running around from work, to parties, to picking up kids all over the neighborhood, here are a few strategies that really do work:
1. Make your trunk your refrigerator.
Ok, not literally, but I have known many people (including myself) to keep a small cooler in their trunk at all times. They fill it with healthy goodies at the beginning of the day (raw nuts, fresh fruits and veggies, even hard boiled eggs) along with some ice packs and extra tupperware (just in case) and they’re off for the day. At the end of the day, they empty whatever is left and the ice packs go back in the freezer for the next day. This is also a great way to keep your water bottles nice and cold and not warm from the car heat.
2. Make your supermarket your Fast Food stop.
Instead of a quick trip through the drive thru, run into the local supermarket and pick up an assortment of dried or fresh fruits, healthy trail mixes, fresh veggies and natural peanut or almond butter. Most supermarkets now have wonderful salad bars and prepared foods like grilled chicken and salmon (better than any fast food joint) and healthy sandwich options (be careful with certain condiments like mayo that may be added). Eliminate the fast food joints from your choices of “quick stops” and look for the hot spots in town that offer healthier options.
3. Be the bearer of good food.
When going to a barbecue or social event, always offer to bring something (now I sound like the etiquette police). I always bring something and that something is always healthy. I know, if nothing else, at least I’ve got that to eat (although all of my friends and family know why I do this. Even if you contribute the healthy and lean beef burgers or turkey burgers, this may deter you from the not-so healthy hot dogs and sausages. Or how about a colorful salad or fruit salad?
4. Find the healthy places all over the world.
Before I go on any trip, I go online and find the closest Whole Foods or Health Food Store. If there are none close by, I find a major supermarket. This doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy myself on vacation (like the Key Lime Pie I enjoyed down South) or when visiting family and friends, but I make sure that all healthy principles do NOT go out the window. I keep it healthy and have a great time! (not one or the other)
There are always great ways to maintain your healthy weight loss plans even if your life has you traveling and on the road quite a bit.
If you’re traveling quite a bit, it’s also important to find easy and simple strategies to maintain your current exercise routine. Here is one of my favorite exercise programs that teaches you how to get the best results in the least amount of time:
Rob Poulos’ Fat Burning Furnace
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This sounds wonderful. I want more receipes
I like the Salad dressing receipt and I’ll try it tonight.
is raw nut butter peanut butter and what is almond butter?
would nutella be considered nut butter?
Allison, the first ingredient in Nutella is sugar, so I would highly recommend staying away from that. There are plenty of other delicious nut butters available that are MUCH healthier.
Allison, raw peanut butter is a type of raw nut butter. Spreads like peanut butter can be made from any type of nut. Almond butter is just my personal favorite!
I think eating at work with your co-workers is the hardest of all. Your eating health and have them sit down beside you with a huge burger and fries…I can smell the grease.
We also had a dinner around the 4th of July, everyone bring a dish…I had a dish of fresh strawberries, blueberries and blackberries. I didn’t think anyone would like what I brought, but it was the first dish empty.
Although Nutella butter is good as you said it is full of sugar. Almond and Sunflower butter are good substitutes. I am away for home for an extended time and am having to find good alternatives to eat also. Fruit here is very expensive so I have resorted to frozen fruit. Hope that is okay?
I love eating with my co-workers. They ask me all kinds of things and are always interested in what I’m eating. I got them all thinking about they’re own diet and see them all eating healthier because of it. I love giving them all the tips. Re affirms it with myself. I also told them all I was changing my way of eating and that I was losing 50 pounds. Now I have to be accountable to them, which helps me going. My strategy and so far it’s working.
Hi Isabelle,
I love getting your receipes. They are all delicious!
Hi Isabelle,
I love getting your e-mails and your delicious receipes.
Thanks
I read all your e-mails and I pass many of them on to my family and friends.
I have also tried many of your recipes.
Keep up the great work that you are doing, by educating the population. Love you Isabel.
Hi, I enjoy your articles very much. I do the same thing that you do – whenever there is a dinner or other food event, I volunteer to bring something and I always make something I can eat. I’ve brought fruit salad, tossed salad, broccoli, green bean salad – and I always bring home an empty bowl!
Is 2% milk healthy for you?
Karolina, personally, I stay away from milk altogether. If, however, you decide to consume milk, it should be raw (unpasteurized) certified organic.
Isabel, why is organic butter considered acceptable in the Diet Solution Program if milk is questionable? Would it be preferable to eliminate all dairy products, including butter and cheese? Thanks for any enlightenment…and I am highly impressed by your healthy eating-as lifestyle program and philosophy..