Dietary pitfalls -- on the road or at home

You don't have to be on the road to blow the roof off your program  ---- these are just a few examples , although some of these foods are very tasty

This is not rocket science though,  every body knows that nothing good will come of it if they cross the threshold of a WaffleHouse or a pizzeria ----  all too often we make excuses to justify throwing good sense out the window

"I've been good all week !  -- I deserve to be naughty today "    - OK, if being naughty means stuffing your fat face with rich german food and heaping goblets of ale, then have at it , slim

enjoy the pics -- I may update this periodically as I compile more pics





Breakfast is the most important meal of the day --

----    Go ahead and get it started at a breakfast diner ---

          --- On the right is an omelette, left is some kind of fried potato dish  -- with an extra saucer of buttered white toast (might be wheat - cant tell)

You're not committing too many sins with an egg white omelette like this -- but if you don't need the extra carbs,  would be best to substitute something better for the potatoes and toast





Its been a long day ---- what better way to cap it off than with some serious pie? 

I got no answer on a substitution here, -- I love pizza ---- best thing to do is make it a "obce every coupla weeks" proposition so you don't feel deprived -- as well,  a  real pizzeria type place usually does pizza by the slice  --- go there, eat your 1-2-3 slices , and go home.   Ordering a whole pie just encourages bad eating for 2 days , not just one

 

 

There are 2 types of tacos --- fake tacos and real tacos -- fake tacos are the type we most associate ,  Taco Bell, Taco Mayo, Taco Casa, - and many others  ----- again, like the pizza, if you like this stuff, make it a once every coupla weeks thing , or set aside a cheat day  ---- a corn taco shell has no gluten, but its fried, and the meat is "mystery beef" usually  -- but if I'm only straying every couple of weeks , i'll likely blow it up with something more than a taco combination platter

 

  Real tacos --- pictured below-- doubled up corn tortilla, some Carne Asada, chicken or pork, sprinkled with cilantro and onions  ----  If you can deal with the carbs from the tortillas, you could pretty easily fit these into a decent meal program  ----  probably leave off the Millers though

 

No big secrets here,  unless you have a dentist on payroll and also love to spike your blood sugar up and down like its in an elevator

 Birthday cake ----- if its yours , its only once a year - enjoy !   If you get sucked into 2 office birthday parties a week, -- there's no shame in taking a small piece to be polite, then leave it on a co-workers desk and duck out quietly

Almost anything from a German restaurant is decadent --- top is beef tips with beef gravy on a bed of spinach pasta and asparagus

 What the Germans call stew ---- the stew is served in the middle of a pasta bowl

 

 

 

Again,  same thing -- every coupla weeks , give yourself a nice meal -----  but not 3 nice meals !   You have to pick your poison  -- Do you want pizza, German food, tex-mex?  The sky's the limit within reason

I've heard the  "Its only a cookie" excuse before  ,  or  - "Its just one MEllo Yello - I can be a little naughty "

  ----  lets see, either a cookie or a Mello Yello has 150 calories --- 150 times 365 days in a year is   54,750 additional calories per year --- divided by 3000, as roughly 3000 calories is a pound,  we have 18.25 pounds
     18.25 pounds !     Go ahead, be "naughty" -- you know who's not though?  -

 Tom Brady's not,  neither is the age group champion in your racing division, nor the fittest guy on your group ride ,  -- their not being naughty every day

Eating like a champion eventually will become ingrained behavior