Tricks to Help You Eat Healthfully on The Road

Amid the rush and stress of business travel, nutrition is often pushed aside. While worrying about beating traffic, making flights, preparing for meetings and presentations, who has the time or the energy to think about eating healthfully?

But traveling for business is not an excuse to needlessly indulge in sugar and fats, experts say. Trading in cheeseburgers for salads and potato chips for carrot sticks could help ease the strain of traveling and help dodge weight gain.

"It doesn't feel good, first of all, to fly with a bunch of junk food in your stomach, or soda. "You want to stay as hydrated as possible, eat as much fiber as possible."

I acknowledged that doing so isn't always easy. Rather than depend on airport and roadside eateries, often laden with fast-food options, I advise travelers to plan ahead..

"Make sure you're eating high-fiber foods, those are your plant foods, like fruits and vegetables, beans and grains". Pita bread, nuts and dried fruits are other good choices and are easy to bring on flights. I also advised travelers to buy water once they've passed through security.

For business travelers who are driving, the choices become easier. "You can pack a cooler, you can bring plenty of water". "Pull over into towns where there are grocery stores. ... Get fresh produce, get vegetables, get a container of hummus and baked tortilla chips."

Of course, eating healthfully en route is only half the battle. How does one avoid the pitfalls of restaurants' choices during business dinners?

"If you're used to eating grilled chicken and steamed vegetables, order grilled chicken and steamed vegetables"

If ordering custom meals seems too fussy and high maintenance, I advised travelers to embrace restaurants' vegetarian options. Those are the high-fiber, low-fat, low-calorie meals.

For American restaurants, baked potatoes or salads are good choices, as long as they are eaten in a relatively pure form. In other words, steer clear of cheese, heavy dressings and meat. "If you don't get the cheese and oils, you're more likely to get high-fiber, low-fat meals".

Even fast-food restaurants can have healthy choices. "Something grilled, chicken is typically the best. A lot of restaurants now have salads, even fast food places".

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How about in Indonesia??