Tips on how to eat clean on vacation

You're on vaca and you want to have a good time but you don't want to ruin all that good eating with bad food and be sick the whole time. What do you do? Planning ahead always helps. But you work a full time job and you are excited for vacation and you barely have time to pack. No one said that hard work and dedication was easy, right? Set a schedule for yourself a week before you leave. What day to pack and what day to pack food for your trip. Let me make it easier for you about the food packing, grab a piece of paper and across the top write the dates that you will be going. Set up a menu for yourself for each day -- it's not that complicated and doesn't take much time I promise. For example, breakfast: granola and almond milk at the hotel room daytime snacks: fresh fruit, almonds, walnuts by the pool lunch: tuna fish, hard boiled egg whites and salad dinner: local restaurant.

Dining at restaurants: it is hard just to stop going out to eat all together. It is not realistic but you can limit the number of times you go. We used to go out to eat ALL THE TIME but now not so much and it saves lots money and not to mention our stomachs. Let's face it, it can make you ill eating outside food all the time. When you do decide to go out to eat, look for restaurants that are of course not chain restaurants -- even when they say healthy menu it's not entirely clean or healthy -- but ones that have a cleaner menu. Check menus out before you go, some restaurants have their menus posted online. If everything on the menu is bad go with a salad. Check the ingredients of the salad and choose the one with the cleanest ingredients. And get the dressing on the side if it's freshly made if not, ask for oil and vinegar on the side. I ordered this delicious salad from a bar/restaurant and since the salad sounded fresh I thought that the raspberry vinaigrette would be too. Good thing I asked for it on the side because it was like raspberry syrup. I wasn't sure if I should pour it over my salad or over some ice cream. Asian restaurants are good too because there is always revolutionary diet options on the menu where brown rice is offered and steamed veggies. Stay away from the brown sauce and stick to low sodium soy sauce. I LOVE sushi but I can't eat it anymore. The white rice, sauces and fried things in the rolls, my body can not handle it anymore so I order the sashimi appetizer (6 pieces of raw fish) with brown rice with low sodium soy sauce and that satisfies my sushi cravings.

Snacks on a plane/train/bus/car: pack sunflower seeds, almonds, fruit, granola, protein bars and raw veggies for your trip. Water, iced green tea and fruit infused water is a must.

So, hope all this helps you guys out for VACATION SEASON. Have a fun summer!!