Eating healthy while being a road warrior

If you're like I was, you use traveling as an excuse to gorge yourself with delicious (and bad) food. The excuse I used to use was "I am out of my comfort zone, so I'll eat outside of it as well."

Business trips would include fast food meals and huge, 2,000-calorie comped dinners at fine restaurants. Result? I loved traveling, and my weight easily showed it.

But I found out that it was really not good to have that mentality (go figure). It takes effort to eat healthy when traveling -- from looking for low-cal menu options to packing nutrition bars and easy, healthy meals right into the suitcase. Is it hard? Yes -- but it is rewarding to your waistline.