All athletes have a harder time playing away games than playing at home, so they need to make a special effort to compensate. It\u2019s the same with the Football Diet. Here\u2019s the key: even when I\u2019m away from home, I stick with offense or defense.<\/p>\n
I will often choose to go on defense if I know I\u2019ll be travelling that week. Knowing I\u2019m on defense, I don\u2019t have to fret if my healthy eating choices are limited for a given meal or my schedule keeps me from exercising for a day or two. But I\u2019m still on defense. So I still look for healthy choices at the restaurant. I don\u2019t stuff myself with airplane snacks. I still pick a place to stay that has a fitness center where I can work out. And if that doesn\u2019t work, I make sure to take a good walk each day.<\/p>\n
Some of my most satisfying Football Diet experiences have come when I was on offense while travelling. It\u2019s amazing what you can do if you set your mind to it for a limited, focused period of time. I remember one week when I was traveling for work while on offense. I got up early and went to the hotel\u2019s fitness center. For breakfast in the hotel restaurant, I actually had granola and low-fat yoghurt, which I never<\/em> do at a restaurant, because I\u2019d rather have eggs benedict. But since I was on offense, I had granola and yoghurt and felt great (and incredibly smug). All day long, I walked up stairs instead of taking escalators, and drank water instead of soda. And then in the evening I went back to the fitness center and watched an entire James Bond movie while biking.<\/p>\n Could I do that all the time? No. I don\u2019t have the will power to sustain that kind of thing. But for 3 days in the middle of an offense week? Yes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" All athletes have a harder time playing away games than playing at home, so they need to make a special effort to compensate. It\u2019s the same with the Football Diet. Here\u2019s the key: even when I\u2019m away from home, I stick with offense or defense. I will often choose to go on defense if I … Continue reading “Away Games”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-46","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thefootballdiet.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thefootballdiet.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thefootballdiet.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thefootballdiet.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thefootballdiet.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thefootballdiet.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47,"href":"http:\/\/thefootballdiet.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46\/revisions\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thefootballdiet.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}