Eating healthy on vacation gets creative

This particular vacation I was convinced I could stick to my healthy eating and workout habits.  While I did better than ever before I still failed a few times.

This is taken as we are waiting to receive our CHOCOLATE EXPLOSION dessert.

This is it.  Basically a to die for chocolate cake and some ice cream.

I am convinced that at some level, being healthy is every bit as much about planning in this world we live in.  I have to plan to buy the right food, plan when to make it, plan to workout and plan to sleep the right amount.  I had to plan to keep those precious probiotics cold for a 1000 mile journey.  Plan to pack all my supplements and plan to pack health snacks in a cooler for 2 day. God forbid I get hungry while stopping for gas.

I stuck with my routine of getting up and working out in the mornings before the day got away from me.  Thanks to those nasty histimine issues I have it had to be at the crack of dawn!  Florida is HOT!  We ran lots but the weight lifting suffered.  We did push-ups and ab ripper with P 90x one day and my upper body cursed me for about a week.  170 or so of each.  On our beach run here I literally got so hot during my 4 mile run that I felt nauseous and jumped into that 60 degree water with all my clothes on.

On our travel days, I packed snacks although I quickly ran out.  The hubs and I are ever so skilled at both penny pinching and finding healthy eats and we bought ourselves a rotisserie chicken at Walmart.  I ate half while he drove then he ate the rest while I drove.  Yes it was hillbilly.  But, it was much healthier than anything we could get on the run...so we did three times.  Ha Ha Ha

While there we had a kitchen so we purchased healthy things to eat pool side as well as for breakfast and other meals.  Our Easter meal was seafood and we chose steamed items.

carcasses from our meal

I didn't count my protein grams (I am trying to get half my body weight in protein) and I suffered hip pain because of it.  I'll be starting that up again!  I know it helps.

Some of our meals included:
rotisserie chicken-Walmart
6 oz steak dinner with plain baked potato and side salad at Texas Roadhouse
steamed crab, mussels, and shrimp with side salad
Chipotle salad (had this two times!)
baked Ham and green beans- cousins provided this meal
Cheese burger & fries-this was my indulgence meal

Workouts were running although we did some speedwork and the push ups and sit ups.

For lunches I ate:
salmon directly from the pouch with salt and pepper
lots of veggies and fruit
smoked salmon
cottage cheese
dill pickles- seriously eating these at the beach on a hot day from the cooler was YUMMO
hard boiled eggs
chicken salad from a rotisserie chicken

Then one little bonus of vacation....some outlet mall shopping. I love Under Armour shoes for running and picked me up this new pair!

Here is my idea of satisfaction.... 6 mile run, and a healthy breakfast in sunny Florida with no plans except to lay out.