So easy to slip...

Business travel has a serious impact on my attempts to change my lifestyle as it pertains to eating well and exercising.  Long days of meetings, documents to get done, airport food, lots of time sitting, no time to get in some exercise, lack of sleep, sitting in an airplane breathing recycled air...

Then, you get home and you have to re-establish habits, or try to.  It is all such a pain in the foot.  Due to business travel and needing to stay home over the weekend with the little one, it has been 6 days since I have gotten onto the trail, and my diet hasn't been the greatest.  I am hoping to restart everything tomorrow.  Planning would probably be a better word...

It's not easy being healthy on the road...

Business travel sucks, there are no two ways about it.  Jammed into planes with a couple hundred infection vectors in a closed environment, not enough exercise, limited control over what food you get and the added stress of meetings and deadlines.  It doesn't make for an easy life.

However, you can be somewhat healthy, if not completely.  Walk the 13 blocks to your meeting instead of grabbing a cab.  Go to the salad bar in the grocery store instead of grabbing a sandwich at the pizza place next door, stuff like that.  So, while I didn't eat as well as I do at home, I was able to stay within my calorie limits over the last 2 days in New York, and have some really good Brazilian food while I was at it :-).

What I didn't get to do, however, was hit the treadmill at the hotel.  My exercise all came from walking around the city.

Also, I need a new "2 Day" business travel packing list.  I am wholly displeased with my travel minimalist performance on this trip.