How to reconcile the two, diet and trip, and keep the “little body” in shape?
It really is not easy to take a vacation or a few days off, and to stay on track with your diet. You are faced with a variety of foods, different flavors, beautiful sweets, and having to ignore all that and walk toward the salads. Just kidding!
That would be a real torture. You shouldn’t be so radical, as this could bring theopposite effect of “desperation,” and the person would start eating everything he or she sees ahead.
The ideal way is always to balance things. To have a good quality of life, one must train with discipline, having a healthy and lasting diet, and those “escapades” from time to time won’t do any harm and, sometimes, can even be good for you.
According to a nutritionist at the gym “Body Tech”, in Belo Horizonte, a specialist in nutrition for functional sports, Natalia Kaslauskas, we can always make the best choice.
Of course, it does not mean it will be the ideal one, but the most appropriate at the time. During a trip, it works like this: you can choose to maintain your diet and to keep fit or eating fatty and sugar-filled foods during this time away from home.
The first tip is to take a little snack to eat while traveling by car or plane. And avoid staying many hours without eating, a rule that most people already know. While traveling it is always good to carry cereal bars, brown rice cookies, nuts, almonds, macadamia nuts, yogurt and bananas.
By doing this, you will avoid eating those “potato chips” and industrialized cookies those airports or shops offer.
At breakfast in the hotels you usually have options of fruits, cereals and yogurt. You can make an option for tapioca with scrambled eggs, and on other days eat a “crepioca,” which is the addition of an egg white, and a spoonful of tapioca flour.
Papaya and banana with cinnamon? Is it all right? Very good, and cinnamon also helps lower the fruit glycemic index, making it a super and interesting combination, according to nutritionist Kaslauskas.
For lunch and dinner choose salads, grilled chicken, fish and vegetables. Eating well, you will get credits for that delicious dessert.
Ah, those desserts! Vacations do have those sweeties. No one is “made iron.” Eating with pleasure is good!
In the afternoon snacks, eat a fruit with yogurt. No mistake about that. Choose rice crackers, bars and nuts for the intervals between meals.
And do not forget to get proper hydration. Experts teach us that we can enrich the water we drink with slices of lemon, mint, and ginger, to make it more delicious to drink.
Another observation from the nutritionist is in relation to alcoholic beverages, which should be avoided, especially beer. If you really want to drink something, choose wine accompanied by water.
Now comes the hardest part: to keep on with physical activities, adapting the exercises according to your possibilities. A good tip is walking or jogging. You can do anywhere you want. They are good in terms of burning calories and you even get to know the places around.
Do you think it’s possible to travel and keep a diet? My answer is yes. And without many sacrifices. With discipline, persistence, willpower, balance and professional guidelines in the area, we will get very good results as to our well-being. We will improve our mood, our immunity system, our sleep, our body and our sense of victory.
If you want, you can and you will do it! Good luck and enjoy your vacation and your days off.
A lot of “Sport & Health” for you!
Reporting by Patricia Albuquerque, journalist and partner of the Blog Sport & Health!
