Advice for business travel.

When you order food, could you eat only 3/4 of everything you order and send the rest away? Or stick with salads and grilled protein, ask for dressing on the side?

Business trips are the worst. You have restaurant food every day, usually meetings over drinks to contend with and those horrid catered boxed lunches or buffets. I've had to deal with these trips a few times since starting. I just counted my calories like mad, tried to eat under a bit to combat the lack of being exactly sure about the food counts, and when I had to drink to be sociable, it was whiskey and diet coke and I logged it. Hopefully the hotel you'll be at has a fitness center so you can hop on a treadmill or a machine for a bit in the morning. It sucks because the trip can be stressful and I want to stuff my face when I get stressed but it's possible. Good luck!

Will your room have a fridge?

Scott68356 wrote: »

Wow thanks for all the advice, good to know I'm not the only one who struggles with this. Not sure if I'll have a fridge, but if I do that will make things a little easier. Thanks again to everybody for the help.

Call ahead to ask if the rooms have fridges. I have called ahead in the past. They are standard at many places but sometimes they are on demand.

Depending on where you travel there are sometimes restaurants that specialize in healthy eating. Normally larger cities and trendy neighborhoods, perhaps a little pricier.

When I eat out for work, at lunch and dinner I order some meat or fish and vegetables and tell them to hold everything else. Doing that, I generally have no problem staying under my calorie budget.

I was doing hotel living when I was training for a new job.

First, I brought a meal replacement with me on my trip, it wasn't a reduced calorie replacement- it was a complete nutrition food alternative called Soylent, I brought the powder with me.

Second, I hit up the hotel fitness center every day. Being at a hotel and not at home, there was a lot of downtime. I spent a good two hours or more in the fitness center.

Third, when I did decide to eat a warm meal, I either got a family sized steamer bag of Green Giant Vegetables, or went to a chain restaurant. My room did not have a microwave, but there was one in the hotel breakfast area.

Four, if you do eat out - it's simpler to count calories at chain restaurants because they have nutrition info on their foods. Eat smart - eat with your mind not your stomach.

I didn't eat the free hotel breakfast, I ate 400 calories of Soylent for Breakfast, 400 calories of Soylent for lunch - and would have the option of a vege steamer bag, Soylent, or restaurant for dinner.

Having the meal alternative, I didn't have to figure out where to eat for lunch, and made sure I had a healthful breakfast i.e. Not pastries.

Scott68356 wrote: »

So I have to go out of town for 3 weeks for business. I won't be staying in a hotel that has a kitchen so I'll be eating out constantly. I've had too do this for shorter periods recently and it hasn't gone well in keeping under goal (nice way of saying I completely blew it). So i'm looking for some advice to help stay on track. Thanks for any help.

I just had to live in a hotel for a month due to black mold and construction in my house. Stock up on protein bars, yogurt, etc. Get meals that can double for lunch and dinner (Chipotle bowl) so you can save yourself some $ while staying within macros. Work out in the fitness center (that was my favorite part of living at the hotel!)