Days 13-14: Travel Food Advice for HCG diet
We conquered Disneyland (and in the rain)! Being away from the comfort of your own prepared food portions for HCG diet was tough. We brought the following with us:
- Stevia
- Bunch of apples (Fuji/Gala)
- Strawberries
We were going to bring some chicken and the George Foreman, but realized that just wasn’t going to work being with another family and our kids, etc. We trudged along. It was tough…real tough. Being surrounded by delicious smelling food was really hard for me. Here are our tips for where we went for some options:
- Jack-in-the-Box: Get order of grilled chicken strips (4) and Chicken Club salad. On salad, remove everything but onions/lettuce/tomato (no cheese, bacon bits, etc). Take one of the chicken strips from the 4-piece and add it to the salad (you get 2 with the salad). Separate the salad in half (order an extra bowl). Cut up the chicken into pieces and put some mustard and hot sauce on it and mix it together. Add some salt/pepper, then add to salad. This order is for 2 people.
- In-n-Out: Protein burger, just burger, grilled onions, tomato. Add mustard, salt pepper. This sucked for me. NO flavor what so ever. But it killed any hunger pains, just didn’t taste great.
- Del Taco: 3 chicken soft tacos – order with just chicken, lettuce, tomato. NO cheese/sauce. Take the contents of the tacos out and mix together with hot sauce (mild). Eat. This was hands-down my favorite. Better than the Jack-in-the-Box variety. Perhaps because it was shredded lettuce. (note: 3 soft tacos contains about 100g meat).
- Chili’s- Fajita’s – don’t get the mix, just get the chicken. Ask wait staff to ensure no cooking in oil and no oil on the skillet. Split the portion between 2 people. Tasty. Grilled vegetables were really good. Watching our friends enjoy fried jalapeno and onion strips was hard :-(.
We made it out alive though. Because we didn’t have a scale we were not motivated at all. There were times we said we’d quit. All we could think about was better tasting food (not necessarily larger portions). Having the apples was huge (strawberries just didn’t keep well traveling). We kept some in our backpack as we walked around Disneyland.
This morning we both got up and I was at 205 – down 10.5 overall an 4 from the beginning of the trip. I was hoping for it to read 200, but I’m semi-motivated to keep going. Tomorrow may be judgment day for us. As I’m traveling next week on business it will be even harder than Disneyland. Wish me luck!
Day 13-14: 205 pounds.