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Eating While Flying

June 14, 2007 @ 07:04 pm

Today I had to take a quick business trip to Chicago. I had to wake up at 4 am, take a flight at 6 am, do a 15 minute presentation and fly home at 2, getting home at 6. It's a long day. And it's all on top of not getting the best sleep combined with high stress for the last two weeks. Hardly conducive to good weight loss, but I digress.

Side note: If you ever need good motivation for losing weight, fly somewhere. If you REALLY need motivation, fly somewhere on Delta. When you're done trying to squeeze your giant rear into the extra narrow seats Delta has, followed by life-strapping a seatbelt made for a 12 year old around you, you'll find your new weight loss muse.

The bane of all professional people trying to lose weight is the business trip. On the business trip we are ripped from our regular, well-controlled environments where we've purchased the right foods and prepped our healthy snacks with a water bottle every 10 feet. Instead we have the Starbucks, the food cart, the airport restaurant, the fast food, the bars (seriously - my meeting today was in a bar), room service, restaurants and a risk of no nearby gym. It's impossible!

I've been known to just suspend my diet while travelling, but that's not the greatest plan either. The problem is when you're in a new place, you don't know what's around. I've had one and two-week long trips where I buy nothing but Pizza, Sonic Burger, and Ruby Tuesday's (travelling to the South is extra murder). Going international is just as tough. The nutrional information is counted differently, the menus and ingredients aren't necessarily in a language I speak, and it's not easy to just go grocery shopping and prep all my own meals especially on business trips. (Another fun aspect to going international is that if your hotel has a gym (which mine does in Germany), the weight equipment is all in kilograms.)

Today wasn't so bad. I slept on the plane to avoid the food and drink cart. I got my Starbucks but it was decaf & skim milk. I didn't drink at the bar and I bought a salad for lunch. Falling asleep on the ride home prevented another food cart catastrophe and for dinner I had a simple sandwich wrap. I'm a little concerned about an upcoming trip to Germany, but we'll worry about that when it comes.