how to eat wellhow to eat healthy foods when you’re crazy-busy and/or traveling

How To Eat Healthy Foods When You’re

Crazy-Busy Or Traveling

“I mean the changes in how much energy I feel, like when I eat

healthy I feel really, really energetic, I feel happy, I feel way better

at handling things that life throws at me, and my vibrancy way

higher, my creativity, just everything. Like, life is so much better

when I'm eating healthier.”

This episode is to give you some ideas on how you

can incorporate healthy eating in a way that

feels easy and works with a busy schedule.

I travel a lot and so I need

to have practical things

that I can do while

traveling and I know a lot

of us are working all the

time, so I'm just going to

give you some really great

ideas, I think, for just

making this simple and

tangible and practical.

So a lot of us when we get hungry, our blood sugar starts to drop and

then when we are in that state of being hungry, then forget about it,

like we're just looking for a quick fix, anything to feel better and

you're going to usually be drawn, just scientifically, to the things that

are the fattiest.

So some ideas for portable snacks that you can take are little

baggies of almonds and different nuts; you could do like carrots

and peanut butter in Tupperware; grass fed beef jerky; Lara Bars,

they're 100% raw bars; packets of nut butters; trail mix; fruits are

also really good to get your blood sugar back up if you want to

keep an orange or an apple.

It's always nearby you're going to make sure to drink it. So I like

to have some in my car, when I work, always near me, obviously

when I work out, but it's in my purse. It's very rare that you see

me without water really close by, because I just know the more

hydrated the better I feel. So that's definitely something that's

really helpful.

Also I would recommend making a smoothie in the mornings

because it's really quick to make smoothies and when you have a

smoothie you get in really great nutrients first thing in the

morning, then at least if you mess up the rest of the day, at least

you know you've gotten in some nutrients then.

And there's all kind of things on

Pinterest if you do a search for

simple recipes. If you go to

pinterest.com/ginny G-I-N-N-Y M

as in Michael Johnson, she is my

nutritionist. She's amazing. She

has a bunch of Pinterest boards

on different things that you can

create, that you can make for

food that are pretty simple to

make. She will readily tell you

she's a lazy cook, so she's really

helpful.

And why I really like cooking is because it helps you be 100% sure

that the ingredients in everything that you make are healthy. You

know when we eat out, we don't know what's being put in the

food.

“I did a 30 day challenge where I was sugar, gluten and dairy free

and when I would ask waitresses about what's in certain foods that

look like they should not have these different things in them, it

was crazy to see how often like I'd get grilled chicken and it would

have gluten in it, or so many things have sugar in it. And it's really

ridiculous actually, so the thing about cooking is this way you have

100% control. You know what's going on in your diet.”

So like vegetables for example, if you basically take any vegetable,

so like the ones that I use a lot are like Brussels sprouts,

cauliflower, broccoli, squash, sweet potato etc. If you just take

them, mix them with some olive oil, salt, pepper, pop them in the

oven for like an hour, to an hour and 10, 350 degrees, boom,

delicious. They're super, super good.

If you eat meat, look for crock pot recipes. I mean you can just

take a minute in the morning, throw some stuff in the crock pot,

hit start and then leave and then come back to really delicious

food.

You can also just create bags of vegetables that you can throw in

with whatever you're cooking, so if you have like little Ziploc

baggies of onions, bell peppers, mushrooms, different vegetables,

if you can just, boom, throw them in, then it saves you a lot of time

from having to go and chop them later because I get that a lot of

the reason people don't like cooking is it takes a lot of time.

You can also go to youbars.com and those are basically customized

nutrition bars, so you can go and pick different bases. Like, they

have like a cookie dough kind of base which isn't really cookie

dough, it's like dates and cashew butter and some other stuff I'm

not remembering all now, but it's just nutrition bars that are

exactly customized to your needs, so that's another way that you

can switch it up.

You also might consider hiring a chef, and I know that a lot of

people when I say "chef" think that it's really going to be

expensive, but I've gotten chefs for like $10 an hours. It really

doesn't have to be that expensive. I think the thing is people hear

the word "chef" and so that word alone like commands kind of a

higher price, I guess.

Another thing is I go to Burning Man and one of the things we do

in my camp is we have these things called food pods and so

basically there are several people and everybody is responsible for

just one meal, so let's say Burning Man is seven days, there's 14

people to a pod and we all eat, we eat breakfast and dinner. It's

really hot there so we don't eat breakfast, lunch and dinner.

So a couple different tips, one thing, take oatmeal, the packets of

oatmeal with you because you can use the coffee maker and then

just add the hot water from the coffee maker into the oatmeal and

then, boom, you have a breakfast. You don't have to pay the $30 for

breakfast that you don't know what all the ingredients are anyway,

so that's really helpful.

When you're at restaurants, just chose, if you eat meat and fish,

chose the items that are steamed, broiled, baked, grilled, poached,

roasted, those usually have less other ingredients than other

things. As I said before with my friend who eats the eggs and had

all those problems, I always ask for real cracked fresh eggs, so

even the nicest restaurants will use that crappy egg substitute.

There's those organic meats from Applegate so sometimes I'll get

the salami or the chicken slices. If you eat bread, you can get that

or Ezekiel Bread and just remember whenever you go to the

grocery store, just grab some of the utensils and a lot of them

provide them or you can even pack utensils with you, if you know

you're going to do this, no problem.

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