Moms Travel TipsTravel Tips and Vacation Ideas for the Whole Family

I travel a lot on business, often spending the whole of the working week hopping from one airport to another, sleeping in airport hotels and eating a lot of airline food. I soon learned that this busy lifestyle was not good for my waistline.

Travelling alone on business brings with it a whole load of obligations. In order to be sociable it is often necessary to have dinner with clients and share a few drinks after meetings. When away from home it can be really hard to take the exercise that you need and to avoid the temptation of room service and your room’s mini bar.

The same is true for holiday travelling. When your’re in a holiday mood you are far more likely to give in to temptation. You’re visiting a part of the world where the local food and restaurants are just too tempting to resist so, inevitably, you don’t. In combination with a few holiday drinks and some relaxing time by the swimming pool and by the time you get home you find that your clothes don’t fit any more.

Unfortunately there is no easy solution to the problem of gaining weight while on the move. But I shall share with you a few of the techniques I am using to keep my weight stable even though I spend much of my working life on the road or in the air.

Firstly, I make it a priority to get some exercise wherever I go. This isn’t always possible especially when travelling all day long. Whenever I can I book myself into hotels that have some good keep fit facilities like a swimming pool or gymnasium. I will always make good use of these welcome facilities when they’re available.

I never travel anywhere without my laptop so I keep a few keep fit workouts on my hard disk that I can follow from any hotel room. Each day that I’m away I will always try to go for a brisk walk around the hotel area.I have found that a vigorous ten or twenty minute walk is not only a great way to get some exercise but also helps to clear my head.

I try to take every opportunity to stretch my legs and shake off a few excess calories. For example, when I fly home I will always take ten minutes to walk around the perimeter of the Cardiff airport parking lot before retrieving my car. This wakes me up ready for my 30 minute drive home and burns off a few of the calories I’ve picked up while away.

These days I always go for smaller portions in restaurants and I don’t always empty my plate, instead I eat only until I am full. These days I will always choose the healthiest option available. Many restaurants are sensitive to the demand for healthy options so the salads and fruit are my primary selections these days. And anther technique I use is eating more slowly.

Theses days I have nearly cut out alcohol completely which has brought some enormous benefits. Wherever possible I will choose to drink water rather than alcohol.

I doubt that my techniques will be appealing to everybody but hopefully they will help a few people to keep in trim when on the move.

Top Tip: When travelling, for business or pleasure, alway make certain that you have adequate and appropriate travel insurance. If the worst should happen the last thing you want is the expense of a flight home in an air ambulance.