Eating Healthy while on Vacation

If it's nice food that you think you will remember, enjoy it. If junky fast food, just be mindful.

If you can, go to the grocery store and get stuff that you can keep in your room. I always track out a grocery on vacation--largely because I hate paying 5x as much for mini bar water!!

This is helpful, especially if you have a mini fridge. You can buy hard boiled eggs, fruit, veggies etc. that you can snack on.

When you are out to meals, you can order whatever you want (within reason--it is vacation), but try to add veggies instead of fries, or start with a salad with every meal.

I just came back from a week at the beach with my family and I ate like there was no tomorrow, so I don't know how much help I'll be. However, I did do 3 very important things which are:

1) I still worked out every day. This was huge. For me, it's easier for me to fall out of good exercise habits rather than good eating habits. I knew if I kept exercising, that was more important than trying to stick to better eating. Better eating is easy enough for me to get back into when I'm home and back into my routine. I didn't do the hard workouts I usually do at home, but at least I did something.
2) I forced myself to get back to the gym as soon as I got home. #1 above made this easier.
3) Most importantly, I changed my mindset. I reminded myself that I was on vacation. I eat great 95% of the year. I'm entitled to one week of vacation where I'm not going to stress about eating a bowl of ice cream of plate of fried shrimp. I ate what I wanted and when I got home I ate my usual way again.

edit: It helped that we rented a house w/ a full kitchen so I was able to buy or bring a lot of my usual foods from home. I would definitely keep some healthy snacks and fruit in your room if you have a hotel.

Portion control is your friend. Limit bread & pasta, split desserts.

Vacation for us almost always involves a beach, with lots of local seafood, simply prepared. As long as I can avoid deep fried calamari, I'm good. I'm happy with light rum, club soda and a wedge of lime in place of fruity drinks.

That being said, we went to Nashville earlier this summer, and it was a bit harder. Part of being on vacation is enjoying the local specialties, and in TN, that's barbecue, hot chicken, biscuits and cornbread. I did eat that stuff, but also ate lots of vegetables. When we went to the bars, I drank light beer or flavored moonshine with club soda. I walked a lot, and used the elliptical in the hotel gym once. I was a couple hundred calories over maintenance for the week, with no lasting bad effects. I felt like I was able to eat what I liked, and I had fun.

KymBerlyBarrera wrote: »

Hi Guys! So our family is going on Vacation soon. We will be gone 4+ Days. Im very concerned with how we can eat healthy while on vacation. Im clueless on what options are out there! So what are everyone's go to fast food or sit down restaurant choices? Specific dishes , or special requests?
The one thing I have found is the Burrito Bowl from Taco Bueno. Its 350 Calories thought high in carbs and sodium. We are not abiding by a specific diet, but Id say if you had to name it, it would be Low Carb or Atkins.

How active will you be on your vacation? I went to Florida a couple weeks ago and it was a 13 hour drive one way. We ate out a LOT until we got to the condo and I was able to buy groceries for the week. I walked so much every day to and from the beach, the pools, etc so I it all evened out. I figured I would either maintain my current weight or gain and I had a 2 lb weight gain which was great because I expected way more. So I think it depends on how active you will be. I made good choices and tried not to eat too much while eating out and stayed active.