Traveling and eating well

Enjoy but in smaller portions. Don't feel bad if you only eat part of your meal or dessert. Maybe there will be someone else who wants to eat less. Fill your plate with veggies but beware of the oil and/or butter they are probably cooked in.

That being said, you've been at this long enough that you know the lower calorie choices. Seafood cooked in butter will be lower calories than beef cooked in butter. Drink lots of water, vacation exercise is awesome...long walks are great ways to see where you are visiting! Have a great vacation and get right back to it when you come back!

On a week long vacation?

Take a vacation! Do carry around some healthy snacks, they are usually more filling than chips and candy anyway. Enjoy the food!

middlehaitch wrote: »

You know your portions, so eat to that.
If there is something delicious, splurge.
If something is so-so leave some behind.
If you are going to a foreign country, taste as much as you can. Calories be damned.

^Great advice there!
Move around and have fun! And drink plenty of water!

I am typing this from a hotel in Dar es Salaam, far from home. I travel a lot for work, approximately one week a month I am staying in a hotel somewhere in some or other exotic locale, with loads of buffet meals, so I face this challenge a lot. I seldom lose on trips, but I am satisfied with maintaining and not gaining. I have got better at it.

I log everything, but accept that doing so means that I am guessing, using quick calorie entries or trying to chose something comparable. My macros are going to make purists have a heart attack. I am going to be off in my guesses, but it is still worth my while to do the best I can, for review later.

At breakfast buffets I stick to eggs and/or yogurt or something simple and try not to look at the rest (a good strategy is to chose a table which ensures you have your back to the buffet, there are studies to show that not looking at the delicious food directly during the course of your meal gives you a better chance of resisting it).

I choose to just eat fruit for lunch so that I have more calories available for dinner. I am at the office at that time, so I this is easy for me - maybe not for everyone.

I eat at the hotel restaurant for dinner, but try to make a sensible choice of something I still enjoy. If the portion is really enormous I ask that half be packed for me "so that I can eat it in my room later". No one ever minds when you phrase it that way. The hotels I stay at often have a small fridge and some even have a microwave. I save the extra food and eat it the next night in my room - budget room service!

There is plenty of pressure to go out for drinks and cocktails, so I stick to Coke Zero and Vodka, which is light on calories, on those occasions.

If all else fails, follow the advice others have given above and don't worry about it too much. Nothing too terrible can happen in one week and you can catch it up quickly enough when you get back - you don't need my strategies if it does not happen too often.

Good Luck!

My advice, is..... EAT. DRINK. BE MERRY. Its a holiday.