Today was a travel day...quite possibly the most difficult type of day for me to stay on track. There's no workout on the schedule today so the food I put in my body has to be right...no real margin for error.
Traveling used to be the excuse for poor eating. "How can I possibly eat well while I'm on the road?". It's funny how we justify bad behavior to ourselves, it happens so quickly and almost automatically. If you slow down a second you can actually hear the conversation going on between the good and bad angels that reside on each shoulder.
In the past, the "bad" angel was dominating the fight. Recently the 'good' angel has grown a pair of stones and is standing up to that prick.
So...planning your meals, evidently it works. The night before my day trip I put together all of my snacks for the day. 2 apples, an orange and about 1/2 cup of almonds. Put them in my laptop bag as emergency "holy shit, I need food" snacks, which usually hit me between meals.
In addition I also committed the night before to a plan for an early breakfast first thing in the morning and gave myself 2 options for lunch while I was going to be at work so that I had a plan walking into the cafe.
It worked...I came home having achieved that perfect balance of not overeaten and not having felt hungry all day. I was even able to resist the temptation of one of my favorite cheat foods...the Sleeping Lady Cowboy Cookie.
I also returned with one apple and a few almonds to spare...plan your meals...it works! If left to my own devices who knows what would have happened.
SRR
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