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DEL.ICIO.USVacation vs. Business Travel
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
I will be in Denver this week for a business trip for which my husband is joining me, so we are making a vacation out of it as well. I’m planning in advance how to handle this situation so it doesn’t become a bump on the road I’ve been traveling.
I looked at the hotel website and determined there is a fitness center on the property. Unfortunately, on days when I am in meetings from 7:30 a.m. through dinner - and this has happened to me on other business trips I’ve taken during this Fitness Challenge - there is no feasible way for me to get any real exercise. However, on our vacation days, I will work in some cardio sessions. Second, I tend to get more exercise in general on vacation. My husband and I will be hiking and doing a lot of city walking. Unfortunately, on those days full of meetings, my heart-rate rarely gets above sleeping level! (Yes, they can be boring…)
Third, I plan in advance for eating situations. For example, I take protein bars my trainer recommended and have one of those for breakfast. Otherwise I’m stuck eating the requisite “Continental Breakfast” of croissants and muffins that, frankly, I’ve never liked. Some hotels do serve oatmeal and Egg Beaters, but when you’re looking at $14 for breakfast, I’d just as soon have a protein bar from home.
When my husband and I can pick restaurants, we keep it fairly healthy with seafood, salads and the like. However, the food served at the meetings is pretty terrible. I find myself scraping off sauce, flabby chicken skin and too much heavy salad dressing, and pushing aside very heavy desserts. This is where those protein bars can come in handy again. However, I still have to “be sociable” and at least pretend like I’m eating.
It’s fun to go out of town on vacation, and I can usually find ways to get in a lot of exercise and healthy food. But when I’m out of town on business, that’s a different story. Sitting all day in meetings, eating plated lunches, and faced with snack breaks consisting of cookies the size of my head can all prove daunting to my efforts. Does anyone have any other suggestions for me?
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