"...Eggs"

I have been on the road every week so far this year except for one. So Monday or Tuesday through Thursday or Friday I'm living as a nomad out of a suitcase. I have had to be creative about eating the way I want to eat.

This morning I was having breakfast at a Holiday Inn Express and was enjoying my bowl of oatmeal with one scoop of muscle provider mixed in and working my way through 8 hard boiled eggs. I slice them in half, scoop out as much of the yoke as I can, add a little salt and pepper and it is as close as I can get to my homemade 6 egg white 2 whole egg omelet that I make for myself at home.

There was an older couple at the table next to me and I over heard the gentlemen telling his wife that "I have never seen a man eat so many eggs!" I had to chuckled as I watched him eating his glazed cinnamon breakfast muffin and bowl of sugar pops. I'm sure that he was thinking to himself that I had horrbile eating habits - eating all those eggs.

When I can I'll actually buy a dozen eggs and use two breakfast bowls to make myself microwave omelets * whites with only 2 yokes of course Turns out looking like some sort of giant egg mushroom without the stem. Always good for a few strange looks from the other guests.

For a while I was getting a little bummed out with the fact that I have to frequent so many different gyms, but in the past few weeks I have come to enjoy and make the most out of the variety that it provides. This morning, for example, the gym had a "Freemotion" squat machine. An elaborate (and I'm sure very pricey) machine. It allowed me to do one leg squats - sort of a hybrid one leg squat/lunge. I did two warm up sets then one set of 10 for each leg at 200# and
a final widow maker set of 15 at 180#. Wow! That was an awsome leg workout.

Previously I would have been bothered by the fact that they did not have a typical leg press machine, but in this case the alternative turned out to be awsome. Maybe I'm mellowing in my old age! So next time you are trying to find time to fit in your gym workout think of old maddog somewhere in the middle of nowhere entertaining the other hotel guests with his bazzar
eating habits and booking his meetings around his workout schedule and finding his hotels based on where the nearest decent gym is.

I'm very lucky now actually, my current boss (our firms President) is a fitness enthusiast so he has no issue with me expensing my daily gym fees. I get around our finance guys three meal a day rule by buying a double lunch, eat one now and take the other along for meal number 4 or five later in the day. One receipt - two meals. It works for me and I'm following his rules! A Subway chicken breast wrap with double meat (I'll order two) is a great take it and run meal by the way. Easy to eat while I drive and easy to tuck into my computer bag. Another favorite is an Arby's Martha's Vinyard salad with extra chicken, and an Arby's Southwestern Wrap with double meat hold the sauce please. Both combos run about $10. About a third of the time I'll get the extra meat for free as the clerk can't figure out which button to push. The other guys on my team are always laughing at me - they claim that I am incapable of actually ordering something that exhists on the menu.

I'm looking for a well run natural contest on the east coast (mid-atlantic the best) in the late August/early September timeframe. Anyone have any suggestions? Thinking about starting my precontest diet on June 1st. I want to take it real slow and be ready early.

Great post! I feel your pain, per se. I go through the exact! same! thing!!! My co-workers call me high maintenance but I always retaliate and say that "how can you not respect someone that wants and enjoys taking care of their body?" among other things said.

You know what I love? When I take a 2-day trip (spending the night only 1 night) and I take my largest suitcase. Of course, it is filled with oatmeal, supps, can opener, shaker, etc.etc. I laugh at myself hehehe.

Traveling domestic is easy. Overseas is another challenge.

Here is a statement that I think to myself almost every day.....If it were easy, everyone would be doing it.

Great post Mike!
Steve

Interesting thread.

I experience some of the same odd looks and comments regularly. I was at work the other day and eating one of my "odd" concoctions of talapia and egg whites with greeen beans. This was around 8 in the morning. My co worker simply said, my god green beans and fish in the morning.

To add to this my friend knows I would rather stay low key about my eating habits and such, not out of any sort of embarassment , just don't like to go into the whole reason for eating the way I do all the time, so as a joke on my expense she introduces me as "this is my freind Bill, he's a bodybuilder, you should ask him about his diet", yeah very funny.

Anyway nice to see some of you deal with the same thing from the "normals".

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I'm looking for a well run natural contest on the east coast (mid-atlantic the best) in the late August/early September timeframe. Anyone have any suggestions? Thinking about starting my precontest diet on June 1st. I want to take it real slow and be ready early.

Ah..yes. A PREcontest diet before starting a contest diet. The only way to get there. That's why so many people will say their second contest was better. They do a 12 week contest diet, then they're 8 weeks out from the next one. Never fails.

Good planning.

BTW, no one has seen me eat dinner and lived to tell about it. LOL

BEST WISHES, VA!!!

Frank

Hey Maddog what do you do for a living that requires you to travel so much?

I work as a Public Safety consultant with a focus on technology and organizational issues. After 20+ years in law enforcement it is a pretty good fit for my background.

Hey VA - sounds like you're making it work.

My travel schedule is crazy once again too, and contest dieting started yesterday. I've discovered pouch tuna! I got some real funny looks last week while sitting in first class while everyone was having their eggs and sausage, I was eating tuna directly out of the pouch.

I'm ok with taking my food for a 1 or 2 day trip, but then it gets tough. Oh, and I've mastered the art of eating cold food.

It's not easy, but doable (if you want it bad enough that is).

oh . .and . . I still have my poem you wrote for me hanging over my desk.

Good to hear from you BC. I see that you have wandered over to the PC board - which is also a good group of folks.

Glad to hear that you are still in the trenches pursueing your goals. I still have an article to write don't I! ... I have not even submitted mine yet! - the rest of life has gotten in the way - ha! I always carry a tuna pouch with me for emergency eating - lol, it is fine as long as I have a half of a grapefruit to wash it down with - dry it is BBer unfriendly food Best of luck with your contest prep!

LOL - life has a tendency to get away from us, doesn't it?!

You mentioned dry tuna is bb'r unfriendly . . . why?

Good luck to you as well on your prep. You'll do great, as always!

Just because it goes down bad without something to wash it down with. Except for the Mercury issues, which are more related to Albacore tuna, it is good for you - it just doesn't taste very good plain.

um . . . exactly what do I eat that DOES taste good??!

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for the Mercury issues, which are more related to Albacore tuna

Oh...a little bit of mercury isn't going to...

What was I going to say?!

VA, use some hot peppers or heavy mustard. Man, that's all you taste. lol

Frank