Returning - need help from those who work away..

Hi,
I do work away from home, what works for me is:

bringing instant oatmeal and I just use the hotels coffee maker for the hot water for breakfast. The hotel coffee mug works for the "bowl" and it actually is a very filling snack to. Dont forget a spoon I do all the time lol and they only have stir sticks,

Making sure the hotel has a treadmill at least if not a full gym. When Im into running I find local trails and have had some of the best runs of my life because of it (Vancover coast line or once in a gorgeous trail in Nova Scotia)

I bring along pre-measured snacks like nuts, trail mix and healthy bars to avoid bad snacking.

I pre-plan dinners and found some great resteraunts that serve quinoa and salmon etc. Subway is always around to.

Lunch's order chicken salad w dressing on the side. Cant go wrong there.

Never drink booze becasue than your gona eat whatever forsure.

Always have water on you. I also bring my own tea and liquid stevia.

Hope that helps

That sounds like me! Feel free to send me an add request!

Another good tactic is 2 appetizers for dinner- one to be served when everyone else is eating their appetizer, one served with everyone else's main course. One of the appetizers can be near-zero calories (salad with dressing on the side, steamed asparagus) and the other can be more substantial. Morton's Steak House, last I was there a few years ago, offered a beefsteak tomato as an appetizer- for $10! Oh, well- the company paid for it. One of the best restaurant meals I ever had was at a hole-in-the-wall Italian restaurant in Chicago. I ordered a white bean and escarole soup as a main course. It just reeked of garlic. Yum.

And don't be embarrassed about making non-traditional choices such as poached eggs on toast for dinner. There are so many people out there now asking for dressing on the side, no butter on the toast, gluten-free, grilled, etc, You're doing what's best for your body and you're the customer. As they get more of these requests, many restaurants have responded my making some things lighter, pointing out which items are gluten-free or vegetarian, and offering smaller portions or "tasting" menus. They're respondinhg to customer demands.

I'm not sure what "oats so simple" is, but I've found that oat bran makes very good oatmeal and cooks up very quickly in hot water. I even had it on a plane after getting a cup of hot water from the flight attendant.

Alli - A comment on asking for something 'special' at a restaurant....GO FOR IT! If you are at a nice restaurat most chefs (from my experience) enjoy this. Recently I went go dinner with a group of friends. We had a friend who is a vegetarian join us. Turns out there was NOTHING on the menu that he could simply order. He asked the waitress what she suggested. She told him she would check and be back in a minute. About 2 minutes later the chef showed up at our table and talked closely with our vegtarian friend to get an idea of what he liked. Then went back to the kitchen and made him the most unbelievable mean you ever saw...which he PERSONALLY delivered to the table! We were all so jealous!