5 Evil Foods to Avoid While Traveling
Unfortunately, every food served public spaces like train stations and airports is completely evil. The only way to eat healthy while taking a trip is to bring your own cheese slices, cut veggies, nuts, sandwich on whole wheat bread, homemade whole-grain granola, etc. I am a constant traveler who gained five pounds every trip until I learned how to eat. Trust me. Here are some things to avoid:
You think that the fruit available at someplace like an airport Starbucks is the only "whole" "natural" option. And though it's not organic, it's true that especially a banana whose pesticide-laden peel you are going do discard is the most neutral option available to you in a train station or an airport. How-ever, fruit has a lot of sugar in it. Good sugar, but still dangerous sugar. You eat some sugar, you have a temporary spike in energy and well-being, and then a crash. The crash makes you hungry and cranky and your body starts demanding food. People tend to think that they're weak or piggish or that this is some kind of moral failing, but that's the diet industry talking. When your blood sugar is screaming at you, there's not much a brain can do in its own defense. All that is available at that point will be plane/train food, which you will then eat. Don't fall for the fruit. Same goes for fruit juice.
2. Yogurt
Same as fruit, yogurt seems like it would be the healthy choice, but a flavored yogurt is loaded with sugar--refined sugar, even worse than what you would find in the fruit. A flavored yogurt will get you, causing the spike-crash-crave cycle that makes people eat crap food. A plain yogurt with a fruit swirl and granola on top is just as bad, and often even though those yogurts look white/ plain, they have been sweetened too.
3. The bread off your sandwich, and sort of the whole sandwich
When I am totally desperate in an airport, I'll get a meat sandwich of some kind and eat only the meat, cheese and vegetables out of it, never the bread. This is probably the most blood-sugar neutral choice you can make. It's not breaded or fried or covered with sauce, it will fill you up and keep you going till the end of your trip. But only if you don't eat the bread. Even bread that claims to be "whole wheat" or "multi-grain" is almost always white bread with a dash of whole flour thrown in for marketing. White flour hits your system like a Krispy Kreme donut armed with a sledgehammer. It's pure sugar, and your body will process it as such. A sandwich is evil because the meat is not organic and definitely comes from a factory farm where animals are kept in terrible conditions, so this is a choice that I would make only under duress.
4. Bottled water
We all know that travel is dehydrating and we're supposed to drink a lot of water. Well, unless you bring your own water bottle, you'll add anywhere from 3 to 6 plastic waterbottles to the enormous continent of plastic debris that's tangled into a Satanic atoll somewhere in the Pacific. It's freaking sad, people, and it's totally unnecessary. Think ahead. Stop buying bottled water. I recently was on a JetBlue flight to L.A. that served only tiny 6oz bottles of water. In an attempt to stay hydrated I consumed ten of them. (My nutritionist says that the rule for how much water you should drink a day is half your body weight, in ounces. So if you weigh 160 lbs, you should drink 80 ounces of water per day.) And then I promised myself I'd go online and order a water bottle and would never do something like that again.
5. Booze
I know, it's nice to dull the pain of air travel with a few Bloody Marys. But alcohol is another one of those foods that breaks down into pure sugar and will stimulate your cravings, both at the time you are drinking and even into the next day. It's also very dehydrating, and our bodies often confuse dehydration with hunger. Save the drinks for a time when you're, you know, having fun!
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