By taking charge and planning healthy for your travel, you can enjoy the trip while returning as fit as possible.
Unfortunately, though vacation is meant for unwinding, we all can go a little too overboard when stuffing ourselves with extra calories. However, with some tips, you can dawn on the role of being a fit traveller as quickly as possible! By taking charge and planning healthy for your travel, you can enjoy the trip while returning as fit as possible.
Nutritionist & Lifestyle Educator Karishma Chawla shares six things one must keep in mind:
- Daily routine: Stick close to your daily routine and chores as much as possible and prepare yourself for the travel
- Exercise: Make time for exercise during your travel. It could be walking, running, swimming or even playing a sport, depending on your schedule and the convenience of your travel destination. When you travel with optimal fitness level, travel is an excitement with utmost comfort.
- Focus on fun instead of food: Holidays are fun, and travelling is an experience. Travel is learning about a country. Make these days unique with moments rather than just focusing on food.
- Supplements: Remember to carry daily supplements like whey powders, healthy nuts, and fillers like walnuts and almonds.
- Don’t skip your meals: On travel, we tend to skip meals consuming not more than three meals a day. Break this habit. Instead, stick to the day’s 5-6 meal food pattern.
- Have a complete breakfast: High natural protein helps to increase metabolism, and fat burning, keeping the body in an anabolic state and improving body composition.
Optimum water intake is a MUST for the following reasons:
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- First, it helps maintain body temperature during exercise to support muscle contraction, physical activity and normal body functioning.
- Stronger immunity
- The anti-catabolic effect reduces muscle loss. More muscle high BMR, faster fat loss
TRAVEL GUIDE
- Healthy breakfast options: Begin the day with a complete breakfast comprising of complex carbohydrates like cereal (oats/wheat flakes/muesli) with low-fat milk or wholewheat/ oat bread slices with lean protein like egg whites or whey powders
- Mid-morning snack options: a fibrous fruit like apple/pear/orange or papaya. Eat whole fruit rather than fruit juice. Fruit juices are a source of sugar.
Lunch And Dinner Options:
- Choose whole cereals like quinoa, wholewheat options, brown rice, and a serving of fibre with lean meat, chicken or fish.
- Consume salads or veggies for lunch and dinner, preferably without dressing or asking for dressing on the side. Avoid heavy sauces.
- Choose steamed, grilled tandoor options over fried.
- Consume bread in moderation; remember, they are a source of sugar and trans fat.
- Consume healthy nuts like almonds and walnuts.
Avoid The Following
- Aerated drinks. Instead, sip on lime water, low-fat milk, and vegetable smoothies.
- Rice and refined food options
- Consume alcohol in moderation; remember they empty calories
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