Hotel food ideas. Welll...... will you have a fridge? Microwave? Are you flying or driving or train travel?
If you bring along a cooler or have a fridge, I would definitely bring along low fat cheese snacks (Laughing Cow or Baby Belle or string cheese), carrot and celery sticks, yogurt, hummus. Also (no fridge needed here).... apples, oranges, bananas, nuts, high fiber granola/snack bars, pretzels.
Are you thinking of whole meals or just snacks or breakfast in the room?
I'll help you come up with a plan if you give me a few more
Sorry you were so hungry! Hope you found a good meal!
Some great ideas for me on here already. The snacks are organised around the ideas you have suggested. The main meals are a worry. Breakfast is at the hotel, so I can have the usual porridge. Lunch is a granola type bar which is part of the diet plan. So... Evening meal? We will eat out - I am a really fussy eater and only really like stuff that is bad for me.
not really sure what you like - but a few thing I have done when I go to the cafeteria at work for lunch and have to work with what they offer there:
if there is a fired/baked fish (I am thinking fish and chips like): don't eat the batter, but just the fish inside. I know, difficult as the batter is the best thing! But you do get some very niche healthy fish inside the batter! And if you just have peas, no fries with it, it is quite a healthy meal.
Same goes with chicken - if there is a breaded chicken breast on the menu, you can just eat the chicken inside, not the crust.
Pasta: spaghettis with a plain tomato sauce are not too bad. Just watch your portion size on this and stay away from bread that they might serve with it. Maybe order a mixed salad as a starter.
Thai: I love Thai food and often get a green or red vegetable curry. It does have a lot of fat thanks to the coconut in it, but if you watch your amount of rice and don't take all the sauce they serve you, this can work as a fairly health meal as well.
Pizza: order a pizza with ham and/or vegetables without cheese. Might sound odd, but tastes better than you would think. Also: consider to share a pizza and a nice salad.
General tips: avoid anything that is ground meat (usually very fatty), try to get lean fish or chicken breasts and vegetable sides. I often find that plain rice is the easiest starchy side to get in a healthy form as most potato dishes come with lots of fat (like fries, scalloped potatoes etc.). If ordering a salad, ask for the dressing on the side. The best version is if they give you a bottle of oil and vinegar for you to pour over your salad as then you can just drizzle on a teaspoon of olive oil and some vinegar. Stay away from deserts (that should be obvious!), but if you can't resist, look out for ones that are made with lots of fruit. For example (think of English puddings now - which I love!) an apple crumble is preferable to a sticky toffee pudding. And in general: consider sharing!!
Hope this helps!
Not the best day today. Did not make the wisest food choices.
But it had its great moments. I am so happy with my decision to not step on the scale anymore. It makes me look at my body more and the amazing thing is: it seems to be changing on nearly a daily basis!!
Also I really did not want to do my exercise today. I am getting to the point where I just feel plain exhausted. I wonder how that is going to work when I move on to the next level, which will be more difficult, on Sunday! But even though I did not want to, I put on my workout clothes and gave it the best I could. It is so strange that there are some exercises which killed me when I first tried them and now feel quite confident about. But then there are others where I seemingly did not make any progress. The worst thing is when you have to go from plank with straight arms to plan with your underarm on the floor and then up again. I can only push myself up with the left arm, not the right arm. It just does not work! Anyway - the positive was that I constantly kept giving it that little extra effort, trying to get out of my comfort zone to that point where the magic happens!
I am also starting to come up with exercise strategy for while I am on vacation. I am counting on going for regular runs, but I think I need to do some additional exercise on a daily or at least every other day basis to keep at least some of that conditioning that I built up over the six weeks before the cruise. Hm, I wonder how silly I will feel if I do crunches, planks, lunges (I do hat those!!) etc. in a hotel gym. But I guess I will just have to live with that...
QOTD: What other healthy habits have you developed (or are you trying to develop) along with losing weight and exercising? Are you trying to quit smoking? Eliminate artificial sweeteners? Reduce caffeine? Reduce stress?
QOTD: When you're in a hurry and tired, what is one of your healthy go-to meals that you prepare? Or, maybe, you can't prepare, what are the good to go snacks that you rely on?
We are taking a short family break to Cardiff, Wales. I have to attend a residential course teaching English as an Additional Language (advanced). Then there is a literary festival to visit and we have tickets to see the Harlem Globetrotters, who I dreamed of seeing since I was very young. ( so a life goal). Staying in a hotel and trying to plan food...
Any ideas welcome
I had been thinking about this very topic all day. I have been pretty faithful to healthy eating and WW since I retuned from WDW. I have been doing well with my food choices. What I am happiest with is the fact that when I do slip up, it is a BRIEF slip up now - I used to thow in the towel for the whole day or even the WHOLE WEEK in the past! Now, if I am really craving something, I just have it and move on. I have also noticed that I don't mindlessly eat anymore. I can remember, not too long ago, standing in my kitchen with a mouthful of peanut butter - and having no recollection of eating it AT ALL!
My dilema is ..... I can feel myself starting to get bored with my food choices. I really try to avoid the refined carbs because I just can't seem to stop at a reasonable portion. The cut veggies and apple or pear are starting to get old. Any other suggestions for that late afternoon or evening craving?
I'm trying to be more organized. I'm usually such a planner with my life but recently with so much I've been such a mess. I usually plan my meals out for everything. I really haven't which is probably the explanation of my non-loss
I keep clementines in my purse and always portion out snacks of tortilla chips and 100 cal packs of guacamole. I also have kept usually make some of my chicken nuggets to grab in a last minute when I haven't really made enough for lunch!
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Like I said I have a mystery no-loss. And I think it's from not planning out my meals or doing anything with that. I also went to my parents and have been keeping up with my grandmother the past few days. She isn't really mobile, but she doesn't listen or understand that fact so it's an adventure and tiring to keep up with her!
I did have my dress fitting for the wedding! While I might only be down a few lbs since I bought it, it looked so much better than when I purchased it. So I think my next move it to stop being so dependent on the number and be better at just looking at clothes feel, how I feel because I have way more energy and can do so much more than even a month ago.
Not the best day today. Did not make the wisest food choices.
But it had its great moments. I am so happy with my decision to not step on the scale anymore. It makes me look at my body more and the amazing thing is: it seems to be changing on nearly a daily basis!!
That is wonderful to hear!!
Also I really did not want to do my exercise today. I am getting to the point where I just feel plain exhausted. I wonder how that is going to work when I move on to the next level, which will be more difficult, on Sunday! But even though I did not want to, I put on my workout clothes and gave it the best I could. It is so strange that there are some exercises which killed me when I first tried them and now feel quite confident about. But then there are others where I seemingly did not make any progress. The worst thing is when you have to go from plank with straight arms to plan with your underarm on the floor and then up again. I can only push myself up with the left arm, not the right arm. It just does not work! Anyway - the positive was that I constantly kept giving it that little extra effort, trying to get out of my comfort zone to that point where the magic happens!
I am also starting to come up with exercise strategy for while I am on vacation. I am counting on going for regular runs, but I think I need to do some additional exercise on a daily or at least every other day basis to keep at least some of that conditioning that I built up over the six weeks before the cruise. Hm, I wonder how silly I will feel if I do crunches, planks, lunges (I do hat those!!) etc. in a hotel gym. But I guess I will just have to live with that...
Pool and gym right there at your fingertips!? That will be great!Thank you for all this advice. There is a lot here that I feel I can achieve now, I was worried I would be really off the wagon. I will need a large spoonful of willpower too.
I am confident that I can do this. We have a swimming pool and gym, so a good plan will be to utilise these too.
I had been thinking about this very topic all day. I have been pretty faithful to healthy eating and WW since I retuned from WDW. I have been doing well with my food choices. What I am happiest with is the fact that when I do slip up, it is a BRIEF slip up now - I used to thow in the towel for the whole day or even the WHOLE WEEK in the past! Now, if I am really craving something, I just have it and move on. I have also noticed that I don't mindlessly eat anymore. I can remember, not too long ago, standing in my kitchen with a mouthful of peanut butter - and having no recollection of eating it AT ALL!
My dilema is ..... I can feel myself starting to get bored with my food choices. I really try to avoid the refined carbs because I just can't seem to stop at a reasonable portion. The cut veggies and apple or pear are starting to get old. Any other suggestions for that late afternoon or evening craving?
I'm trying to be more organized. I'm usually such a planner with my life but recently with so much I've been such a mess. I usually plan my meals out for everything. I really haven't which is probably the explanation of my non-loss
Sometimes life gets crazy and I fall off the organizing/planning bandwagon as well, but it definitely start affecting other areas of my life, like my healthy eating! Take an hour or two this weekend and get your planning mojo back on!
I keep clementines in my purse and always portion out snacks of tortilla chips and 100 cal packs of guacamole. I also have kept usually make some of my chicken nuggets to grab in a last minute when I haven't really made enough for lunch!
YUM!
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Like I said I have a mystery no-loss. And I think it's from not planning out my meals or doing anything with that. I also went to my parents and have been keeping up with my grandmother the past few days. She isn't really mobile, but she doesn't listen or understand that fact so it's an adventure and tiring to keep up with her!
I did have my dress fitting for the wedding! While I might only be down a few lbs since I bought it, it looked so much better than when I purchased it. So I think my next move it to stop being so dependent on the number and be better at just looking at clothes feel, how I feel because I have way more energy and can do so much more than even a month ago.