Today's blog is all about travel. Jennifer Love, one of our co-founders, interviews a Nibbler who travels often and lost a ton of weight after being inspired by the NibMor lifestyle. Jenny S. is a commuter and her Jam list is centered around travel time (it's super fun and funny- we wish what Jenny proposes in this blog would actually happen). Enjoy and have a great week!
JLove’s Healthy Eating Travel Tip #1
Those of you that travel, likely experience challenges staying on track and eating healthy during business meals. One of our Nibblers, an Executive at Hewlett Packard, is constantly on the road traveling to and from customers, suppliers and business partners. He has been living the NibMor Lifestyle, focusing on healthy eating, for over a year now and has seen some great results. I heard about a tool he uses while traveling that helps keep him on track and I asked him if he’d be willing to share it. Here’s my interview with him:
JLove: When you go to a restaurant with customers, suppliers or colleagues for a business meal, while traveling, you use a tool to help yourself stay on track. Tell me about it.
RW: I know that I should be eating healthy. What I do is make sure that everyone else at the table knows that I’m going to be eating healthy. I use the opening of the menu as a trigger to remind me of what I want to do next. At that point, I verbally declare to the table that I’m working on my health and trying to eat healthy even when I travel. I let everyone know that I’ll be focusing on vegetables and fish. I let the table know, that I use to use business meals as an excuse to over indulge and make bad food choices, but not anymore.
JLove: That’s a great tool. How does this help you?
RW: It literally puts me in a public position where I cannot eat badly because I just declared that I’m going to be eating healthy. If I did make bad food choices it would make me an outright liar. As a result of this public accountability, I make great food choices while at these business meals and I walk away from the table feeling very good about myself.
JLove: How do your customers, suppliers and/or colleagues respond to this?
RW: Their responses are usually very positive and quite often they join me in those good food choices. On occasion, I’ve had times that the entire table joins in on a meal of fish and vegetables.
JLove: Do you find that the conversation around the table turns to nutrition and health?
RW: Absolutely yes, especially when they learn that the result of my doing things like this, over the period of 16 months, has resulted in my weight loss of 130 pounds.
JLove: Wow, that’s great! Keep up the good work. I’m sure that a lot of people that travel and have business meals will find this tip to be very useful. Thank you so much for sharing your experience.
If you have a healthy eating travel tip, reach out to me by sending an email to info@NibMor.com. I’d be interested in hearing all about it.
Jam List from Jenny S:
Theme: “Dance Car”
Let’s face it commuting sucks! My friend Katelyn Gallamore and I used to storm up ideas on our daily commute of what would make them better, well… We thought a “Designated Dance Car” on each subway and railroad would be AMAZING! If that existed these songs would be a must. But feel free to dance to these tunes in your car, shower, kitchen, on your morning walk, or even at the DMV while waiting, I bet the time would go by faster. Keep Jammin’ Nibblers!
Jammin Playlist
1. Release by Timbaland featuring Justin Timberlake
2. Party Rock Anthem by LMFAO
3. Day ‘N’ Nite by Kid Cudi
4. Push It by Salt N Pepa
5. Another Night by Real McCoy
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