At home, it is easy to stock the fridge with low-fat food. But while traveling, you are usually limited to eating in restaurants. And most restaurants have a limited choice of low-fat food. And when looking through the menus, there are so many delicious looking choices. The handful of low-fat healthy choices are usually buried. Some restaurants will mark the low-fat, or healthy choices with some sort of symbol like a heart. So you can look for these. But even if they have the healthy foods well marked, it is hard to pick the good-for-you stuff over the not-so-good-for-you stuff. If you are on vacation, it makes it that much easier to eat the not-so-healthy stuff. Well, try to use some restraint. You are on vacation you can relax a little. You don’t need to kill yourself eating healthy ALL THE TIME. But try to use some restraint. Don’t order an appetizer, AND a full meal, AND a dessert. Skip the appetizer, and skip the dessert. And when you order the meal, if you aren’t going to order one the healthy things, then at least don’t order the least healthy things. Skip choices that are full of fat. Skip the Fettuccini Alfredo which is full of heavy cream and cheese. Skip the deep fried foods. And just because you get a plate full of food, doesn’t mean you have to eat it all. Think moderation. Just because you aren’t going to eat as healthy as you normally eat, doesn’t mean you need to go overboard the other direction.

Posted by Rob in Whatever on April 16th, 2007 |