We all know working away from home can be tough on the diet because it's so easy to get carried away when you have an expense account. As hard as I try sometimes, that boarding announcement on the flight home can be the death knell of a week spent trying to eat right and working out away from home.

Maybe it's just my greedy butt, but does anyone else here skip the upgrade to first class on a meal flight just to avoid the unneeded calories? By the time you finish an inflight meal, you're well over 1500 calories and drunk off cheap booze.

I know this is funny, but I've set a goal of losing 30lbs this year. As I've been downgraded to PLT, no more free upgrades and I've decided to save my upgrade stickers and see coach as diet tool.

.... as long as the flight is under 2 hours.

Not sure what they serve on the flights that you take, buys salad with a piece of fish is good for the waist and heart. You don't need to put on weight eating awful food. And you can even skip the main dish for fruits.

No.

Of course post 3/3/12 my upgrades on United have gone down by 95%, so now I just get the calories at fast food places before boarding to my E+ seat

Cheers.

'Tis a far better thing to die from the calories from First or Business Class meal and beverage service, than to succumb to the calories in the fast food sack I carry aboard when seated in Y.....

Since OMNI, in general, is for topics other than miles, points and travel, we'll move this over to TravelBuzz!

Enjoy at it's new home.

Thanks.


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Cholula
OMNI Co-Moderator

Sounds like you're more committed to your current lifestyle than to the lifestyle you claim you want. Breaking up is hard to do.

I'm amazed that you can say "no thanks" to an upgrade, but not to an unhealthy meal.

I lost just over 70 pounds and have kept it off about 10 years. Here's a trick I use.

Anywhere you're given a big meal that you find you want, eat half of it, then wait.

Your brain will be screaming to eat more, but try to remember it takes about 20-25 minutes for your stomach to getting around to telling your head that it's full (this is one reason people overeat without realizing it).

after about 20 minutes, more than likely you'll feel full and won't want to eat the last half.

Secondly, I'm a food "carrier". I always pack a few healthy options wherever I go, usually pieces of fruit or a low calorie/high protein bar. Even trail mix is preferable to fast food crap.

But give up first class? Not me I'm afraid. Oh yeah, I'm not in first class to begin with. You're welcome to come back a few rows and tell me about it if you really feel a need to do so.

dcman2

If it's domestic FC I just skip the meal. It's processed and gross. The wine choices aren't that great either and I find I don't miss the alcohol that much.

If it's international FC I say to hell with it and eat/drink whatever I want.

I would never skip an upgrade but can and do skip all or part of the meal. I realize I am in the minority here on FT but alcohol has no place in my air travels so that is never a problem.

But don't you have a bit of a conundrum? The flights under two hours - the ones you're willing to ride it out in coach - don't serve much (if any) food anyway. And the FA's these days come by so infrequently in F that it's impossible to kill that many beers to begin with. At this point in time, it's really just the transcons that are an issue in terms of ability to throw down some serious calories.

If it were me, I'd continue to upgrade and just be choosy about my food and drink. I've never had anything on an airplane that was so irresistable I couldn't say no to it if I had to. Especially nothing that AA serves in the domestic F cabin... I mean, we aren't talking about upstairs on an LH 744 here...

Never! I don't drink booze on flights, so that is not an issue. And you could always take your own food on-board. But no way would I give up the extra room

I've started avoiding all bread - and out of airports where I can get a decent salad, I just bring my own and avoid c/f meals.

Truer words have never been spoken.

I'm on day 2 of Atkins and it's quite interesting. I wanted to try it out for a month, but it seems the toughest part is the induction phase. One day at a time and the first day is shockingly tough.

No fruit and veg has been quite difficult.

I had a big lunch of meat with a side of meat, so I think I'm going to go for a light dinner of a couple boiled eggs and tea. All this while living in a hotel.

I figured if I can do this away from home, doing this from home should be easier.

I can't even get a Chipotle Burrito bowl because I'm a fan of their salsa and Chipotle without salsa is just not right.