How to Stick to Your Diet on Vacation

Male: A big worry probably for a lot of people on going way a vacation, they are afraid because the foods that have been used to are not what that going to make. It is somebody else is going to make. How do you approach their problem so they can keep their diet going and not get in to trouble? Female: Well, it depends. A lot of clients go away on vacation, they were in condo, they gone in a hotel and I always tell them, make sure that the refrigerator is stocked with some of the things that you know you need. If they are going to Florida, they can certainly go in to a supermarket and just had in the apartment vegetables and pieces of fruit. Things that they can cut up and take with them while they are around at Disney World all day long, it depends on where the person is going but things that they can pick on. I also tell them if they are going to a good hotel, there is absolutely no reason why a concierge at the hotel, it cannot arrange for any hotel room to have just the fresh basket of fruit that they can pick on if they are hungry in between meals. Going out for meals, I always tell my clients, try to stick with seafood for most of your vacation because this is the lowest in fat of all the proteins. It is very hard to really make a bad piece of fish whether it is a seafood or shrimp, steamed, broiled, baked, stay away from creamy sources and things like that. Male: And fried is bad right? Female: Yes, of course. My goal when someone goes away is to tell them, “Listen, you are sitting in the sun all day long, stay hydrated. You want to have alcohol, do not do it during the day, try to prepare that maybe you are going to have your 4 ounces of wine in the evening.” Most of all, I want my clients to go away and enjoy themselves. Remember how great they look now. How wonderful they feel about themselves. And then if they come home from vacation and they are the same, no harm is done. I just do not want them going on vacation coming back being 5 pounds. If the attitude of, I am going to do the best I can while on my vacation, I am not going on vacation with the mind set, I am going on vacation, I am throwing cushion to the wind. I will get right back on track when I get back to see Lorie. Male: Will that sounded like fit on occasion too, like a wedding? Female: Yes, except if it is a wedding. I am listening, but if it is a wedding for locally, there is always ways to find that and I do, I tried my best to find out what they are serving at that wedding, so that I can help my clients plan from that. Let us just say it is a dinner. If I know what that host, these is going to be serving at that wedding, I will sit with the client and helped them plan for that dinner and then back throughout the day. Male: Usually they give you a choice of a piece of meat, a piece of fish. Female: Right. It is the same thing at a wedding. Just because you are going to a wedding, I mean, it does not mean, you cannot enjoy yourself and eat well. Here is another thing, let us just say you are going to a wedding and there is three choices, and with this chicken, fish and something else and they all got sauces on them. My feeling is that 9 out of 10 people are going to a catering hall over synagogue of a church wherever the dinner might be. If they have a piece of fish there that is coming with cheese, you just ask the guide, I do not want the cheese on my fish. It is not that it is pre-made already, it is not that it is pre-cooked they can certainly, at a 400 people find one piece of fish, it does not have the stuff on already and you just tell them, I do not want it. Male: Sometimes it is a little crust; you can take the crust out, right? Female: That is exactly right, it is just not being smart, it is about being sticking up for your self. It is just go and telling that even if you have to when you get to the hall, say it to the captain, and say it to the matrodie, “I have some eating issues, whatever I am allergic to cheese, do you think you could find one piece of fish for me tonight when you serve dinner that does not have the cheese on it?” Of course, they are going to accommodate you. I mean that is what they are there for.