Healthy Eating on Vacation: The Correct Way to Stay on Track

When you go on holiday, you may find that it’s extremely enticing to abandon your sensible eating habits and start to eat everything in sight. In spite of your most honorable intentions to adhere to a healthy eating plan, you could be lured in by the sights and smells of delightful restaurant meals, junk food, and rich, home-cooked meals prepared by well-meaning family members.

If you are arranging a trip and you are worried about the best way to stick to a good eating plan on holiday, take a look at the useful tips below.

Eating Healthily on Holiday Tips:

Sticking to a good eating plan on holiday starts before you even leave home. If you're traveling by automobile, bus, or train, pack a little, transportable cooler with quick-and-easy healthy nibbles like fresh fruit, sliced raw vegetables, single-serving bags of nuts, and hard-boiled eggs. Keep a small ice-pack in the cooler to keep the nibbles cool. Also add two tiny bottles of water. If you're traveling by plane, taking food with you may not be possible. If that's the case, be sure to eat a healthy, filling meal before you leave for the airfield.

If you stay in a hotel, don’t touch the mini-bar. It’s customarily packed with calorie-heavy, expensive foods and drinks you do not want. Instead , take a fast trip to a nearby supermarket and purchase an inexpensive foam cooler, healthy nibbles, and a bag of ice (unless your suite has a little chiller). If a cooler and ice isn't available, stick with foods that don’t need to be frozen but will last for a few days, like apples, bananas, oranges, pears, peaches, whole grain cereals, cucumbers, tomatoes, carrots, nuts, seeds, and multi grain crackers.

Luckily , these days many trattorias offer healthier options than the standard fattening, fried foods. In many places you can request vegetarian, low-fat, low carbohydrate, or other diet-friendly meals and nibbles. Don’t be afraid to ask for minor modifications to your meal, such as leaving out the oil, replacing steamed veg for fries, or packing half of your meal into a take-out container before you even begin eating.

If you've got a lot of busy activities planned for your holiday, you may find it hard to eat 3 balanced meals a day, and if that is the case, try and break it down into 6 smaller meals/snacks as an alternative. Try and avoid missing meals because you will be more likely to go mad at your next meal. If at all possible , avoid eating heavy meals in the evening. If you're going to indulge a little bit, do it earlier in the day while you're still active and will burn more calories.

It may seem challenging at first, but healthy eating on vacation is not really that hard. You can simply stick to your healthy eating plan while enjoying your vacation at the same time.

Greg White has been operating HealthStatus.com since he set up it in 1998. HealthStatus has award winning content such as the body mass index calculator and the HealthStatushealth blog