Out of Town Food Worries
We are here in New Hampshire visiting Rob’s family for Thanksgiving. The weather is a little dreary, being that it’s rainy and cloudy, but it is nice to be here again. It’s been almost a year since we’ve been back, which is the longest time we have let pass.
Even though I’ve only been here for less than 24 hours, I am already faced with weird food situations.
I’m the kind of girl that loves change and can usually adapt to any situation. This is important because I usually stick to my usual food no matter where I’m at. Well, already things are a little difficult and I admit that it’s going to be a long two weeks.
Last night Rob’s aunt gave us chocolate chip and oatmeal cookies - My favorite. Her cookies are the best and I had two of them. No big deal. Well, for the next 3 hours we were there I kept thinking about having another cookie. I didn’t and the urge isn’t there like it was when I was bingeing, but I have to admit that it wasn’t a good feeling to want another cookie. I just keep thinking about the next 2 weeks - I don’t want to have 2 cookies per day!
This morning when we woke up, like every morning, I want breakfast and coffee right away. I’m hungriest, it seems, when I first awake and I look very forward to eating my breakfast. The hotel we are staying at supposedly has a breakfast and I was happy about having some cereal and coffee, perhaps a banana too. The great breakfast consisted of bagels and muffins. The coffee was a machine that produced cafe mochas, vanilla lattes, regular lattes, hot chocolate, but not regular coffee. You could say that I was diasppointed.
The difficult part comes into play because we are staying at a hotel. We have limited options. We do have a little refrigerator (think: like the one you had in your college dorm room), but there’s hardly enough room for the four bottles of water we currently have in there.
We’re going to have to figure out something. I have clearly become a food snob, which I’m proud of, but it makes my life a little hard at times. Now, don’t get me wrong, I love lattes from Starbucks, but I can tell them what I want in my drink and what I don’t want. I have options and am in control. With a machine, I am not.
Being from and living in Houston, we don’t have a “true” winter. Living in NH briefly in 2006, I learned what a true winter is like. I learned how people (including myself) can become a little grumpy due to the weather. I also learned that it’s very easy to pack on the pounds when you have to stay bundled inside because it’s too damn cold to go outside. I am determined not to fall into this category for our 2 week visit! Sure, there isn’t a gym at our hotel and it’s cold and rainy outside… BUT you can bet that I will be outside walking and running no matter what!
I have worked so hard to get to where I’m at, and believe me, just because I’m out of town my life doesn’t change. I will still make healthy choices because that is what I enjoy. However, when in a different place (and I mean different!), I find that it’s hard to find the same choices that I am used to at home.
I want to know: When you go out of town, are you faced with this same thing? Are you the type that believes that you are on vacation and can eat whatever you want?
believe you me, i am the type to get caught up in a week full of new foods and my eating habits slightly change. ive decided to take a new approach this week though. im starting my healthy eating habits out of town. im currently at my gmas house for thanksgiving break all week. lets go back: 1 month ago i was okay sitting at a steady 129lbs, but i struggled with the last 9lbs. desperate, i fell back into my starving mode practice and little and behold, 1 month later, im 9lbs heavier. im very ashamed with myself, but i have to keep my head up. i found your journal entrees from a link extended from the ebook my sister purchased and sent me for binge eating. the last month, i have been eating like there isnt a tomorrow, like i wont gain a pound. hah! i was so not right. but i thought, what a better day to start then today in fact, even though im away from home doesnt mean that i dont have choices. like you i love those lattes, espeacially the seasonal pumpkin spice latte and the peppermint latte just as equally…and its showing, but in determination, when at the gas station today i made a choice. next to all those yummy choices of pumpkin spice, white chocolate mocha, and peppermint lattes in the machiene, there was a choice of plain coffee, which i went for and i felt good and i still feel good. i also went to rent a pilates tape to do 20 minutes and although i havent done it yet, i know i will. the cold weather which is also very dreary and nasty as well, wont hold me back. i have to get back on track. to be honest, i need another route other then the gym. my gym is over crowded and very inconvenient, waiting in line for a machiene at the rec. center is anything but ideal, but your post motivated me to be honest. i actually walked my aunts dog today despite the weather. im trying so hard to keep that positive mind set you talk so much about, but its hard. ive been trying to recover from binge eating for nearly a year now and its a struggle to not think, “wow, you gained 9lbs, how can you ever loose it again?” to be honest, im kind of scared ill fall back into the cycle considering i am trying something new my eating right AWAY from home out of my element. the house is stocked with healthy goodies for myself and to ease that pumpkin craving i get from missing out on my latte, im substituting a yummy canned pumpkin w half a nana and half cup skim milk smoothie. delicious:) i know im rambling, but your posts i related to a T with and i just wanted to let you know that i think you just like that 40 year old in the gym. the way you appreciate what she has done for herself is the way i see you. you keep it up and do your best! i know you being away from home wont effect you in the slightest and i hope it wont hinder my efforts as well:)