Full Version: Is it difficult to be organised all the time?
I have a bit of an erratic job which take me away a lot. While I'm at home I'm quite good, but soon as I'm away I end up eating whatever is put in fron of me. Any good tips to help me stay away from lovely hotel dinners and cooked breakfasts! I know the best tip is "don;t have them" but if it was that easy I would. I always just thing, oh a little treat won't matter!
You have to plan and think ahead, well thats the way it works for me, and when your away its just about making the right choices, cereal for breakfast instead of a cooked breakfast, or you could have a bacon roll, as long as you know the check value of the things you are eating, dinners also can be healthy if you pick the right choice again
Its all about thinking positive when these temptations are put in front of you, think why you are going for the healthier option
As Sharon says make or take the sensible choice, i.e healthy cereal, they aare usually in the wee mini cereal boxes so, that is counted or weighed already for you. Often there is a choice of fruit, so you could either take it for your mid morning snack or sit and peel what ever it is slowly and savour it. That way your body wil think it has had loads more to eat than it has. ( the 20 min thing that makes your body think it is satisfied.) Less chance of you taking the cooked brekkie.
You could then ask to see the evening menu ( if it is not already displayed). Plan waht you will choose for your dinner at night. nice healthy chioces again, and look forward to it. You can tehn work out waht you cna have for your lunch, (don't know if you have a working lunch or a lunch break on your own) Remembering you still have your dinner to follow.
hope some of this makes sense. Oh just thought you maybe eat dinner when you arrive at night and breakfast is your last meal at the hotel. Well you will have ben good during the day, so complete a good day with good healthy choices. If you have time before dinner, you coul dgo for a walk, or if it is a hotel with a gym/pool whatever you good go there 1st.
So soryit is all about planning bu tjust think how good you will feel when you have made the effort and have a good week and a good weight loss.
I have found that even tho i am at home the weeks I am organised I usually loose and the weeks that are chaos aare the weeks I PUT ON!!!!!!!!!
So good luck witht eh organisation and don't say oh well I have slipped up this week I have blown it! You probably haven't! Pull it back and get right back on again.
Apologises for the long post - Sharon as usual has said it very well.
I have found it difficult to plan rigidly but I find that if I stick to a routine most of the time I am OK. For example, I need to keep checks for lunch so I don't eat a lot at breakfast.
You could try having a box of low checks foods to eat for the middle of the day - I love Tesco fruit pots. I keep a box of snacks under my desk at work. If you know you've been disciplined for most of the day, it's easier not to give up and go mad.
Remember, you don't have to eat a full portion (you could even ask for half a portion)
Or, if you know when you're going to be away, you could use the festive plan where you have less checks some days and on the festive days, have a sensible breakfast and lunch and eat what you like in the evening.
Just found this post and it sums up one of my dilemmas precisely!
My problem is that I am so greedy and I love being in hotels and having delicious food ll around me.... 
The only thing that works for me is starting breakfast with a big bowl of fresh fruit with yoghurt and several glasses of water (to combat any hangover from the hotel minibar... then by the time I get to the hot buffet I don't actually fancy all that much. Hot bacon with a slice of unbuttered toast is nice treat and not as heavy as a full English....
i would get on great if i was in a locked and darkened room with nothing to distract me apart from my pep books and slimming mags...
unfortunately this is not reality (unless someone wants to take over my work and chores!). xx
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