The Struggles of Eating Healthy and Traveling

Not sharing…

I didn’t travel all the way over here to eat a salad…

I’ve been traveling for the past two months now – bouncing around in Paris, London, Barcelona, Chicago, Colombia, and now in the Philippines.

Before leaving for this trip, I was your typical self-conscious gym rat,  played tennis on a regular basis, and that person who paid attention to the amount of protein and carb intake before every meal.

But these past two months, those habits have been thrown out the window.

I think we can agree that trying the local cuisine (and junk food) allows us to have that authentic experience and get a real taste (pun intended) of the culture. With that in mind, all I’ve been doing is eating anything and everything that I get my hands (and nose) on.

Whether it be walking down a street and discovering a food cart, or wandering around airports and gorging at the food courts, I’ve come to realize that I’m now a slave to my appetite and have lost all self-control when it comes to food.

And honestly, I’m ok with it.

I mean, it’s not always easy finding healthy breakfast like this when you are on the road:

Preferred breakfast at Maison Marcel (Chicago)

Sometimes, you just gotta start your day the way the locals do:

Typical Spanish breakfast (Barcelona)

Colombian breakfast: hot chocolate, omelette, and soup for breakfast. #standard (Medellín)

And we all need a mid-morning snack…

Croque monsieur is a great snack mid-morning (Paris)

Who can say no to a crêpe? (Paris)

Crêpe-ing (Paris)

And when lunch time hits, you know how much this paella sounds so much better than having a salad:

Paella loving (Barcelona)

Packing the calories (Guatapé)

And who can forget about dessert….

Dessert

I mean, carbs are basically the new protein:

Rando spaghetti bolognese craving (London)

Your standard fish chips (London)

And before you know it, it’s dinner time:

Traditional Colombian cuisine (Cartagena)

But thought to myself, maybe I’ll try to take it down a notch:

I’ve forgotten what these taste like…. (Manila)

But it didn’t really work.

This taste just like jollibee….right? (Manila)

Because at the end of the day, I know I’ll always go back to this:

Jollibee? More like Jollibae (Manila)

Now, find time to burn the calories off!