KEEPING HEALTHY “ON THE GO”
It’s pretty easy to maintain your eating and workout habits at home. However, things can easily be “altered” when you are out of town. This could be due to different restaurants, a different schedule, to a different time zone which can make things difficult to adapt to in a healthy manner.
Vacation is a time where it’s easy to “splurge” on foods renowned in the area, or possibly even having a few extra drinks depending upon the setting. Destination races may have your group wanting to explore anything and everything the host city has to offer, especially the night before the race. Horse shows lead to long days grabbing fast food as you’re heading back to the hotel. Your stomach can easily feel out of whack with just one “new” food choice. Workouts can easily go MIA. Your hotel doesn’t have a gym or the type of equipment you are used to using, the weather may be awful for a run, the long hours at the show grounds may cause you to be entirely too exhausted to want to even think about doing one sit up. Just because you are given these obstacles, doesn’t mean that you have to let them stand in your way.
You CAN still eat more so on the healthy side and you CAN still fit in workouts. For example, when you reach your destination, go to the store as soon as you are able to. Get the things you normally have at home such as fruits and vegetables and grab things that you can keep with you such as protein bars and water. That way, knowing you have these items will make it easier to resist the McD’s drive-thru late at night. Plan ahead, if you are able to, on your meals. If your barn mates prefer a certain restaurant while in town for a particular show, enjoy the meal and time together while continuing to keep your other meals as close to what you normally do at home. If the hotel you are staying at doesn’t have a gym, there are workouts you can do in your hotel room. It might not be the 45 min workout you are used to that day when you are home, but it may be 25 minutes of your day where you are getting a workout in.
Don’t let one trip out of town cause havoc to everything you have already been working so hard on to achieve. It is obtainable to be able to eat healthy and to get your workouts in while traveling, you just have to remind yourself of how easy it can actually be.
