It can often be really difficult to continue to eat healthy while on vacation because you're constantly eating out and all of the delicious treats and temptations seem way more difficult to resist. It's more than fine and normal to allow yourself a few excuses to indulge like, "it's vacation" or "it's a holiday" a few times during the trip, but if you're trying to stay on track through the holidays, then you have to at least set some sort of a limit on all of the extra sweets, carbs, alcohol, etc.
With all of that being said, here's a look at some of the food I enjoyed over the break!
Dinner our first night in the city was at a great italian restaurant called Becco. I had the swordfish with tomatoes, olive oil, and pumpkin seeds, along with a piece of crusty bread and a few bites of everyone's pasta :)
For lunch on Wednesday, my mom and I found this great little place in SOHO (near NYU) that had a number of vegan and vegetarian options. I had a small kale salad with strawberries and a cup of the chickpea and lentil soup. It was perfect!!
My mom had the soup along with a quinoa salad.
THANKSGIVING DINNER: spent at Bobby Flay's restaurant in the city called Bar Americain. My mom and I are big Food Network fans so we were really looking forward to eating at Bobby Flay's restaurant.
The menu was prefixed but still had plenty of variety. I started with a salad with apples, walnuts, and pomegranate seeds. I LOVED the addition of the pomegranate seeds so I will definitely be looking for these in the store to add to my salads at home.
For my main coures I the seared salmon with cooked mushrooms.
Dessert is un-pictured but I had apple crepes!
Friday morning my parents and I were venturing around the upper east side and found this awesome little vegan place. So we stopped in for breakfast, but ALL of their food looked delicious. I wish I could transport this place next to Hopkins...I would eat there 24/7.
I got the oatmeal for breakfast (with unlimited toppings!!) plus a freshly pressed juice with carrots, ginger, apples, and pineapple!
Dinner Friday night was at a restaurant on Park Avenue called Casa Lever. My parents and I had been there a couple of years ago and were excited to go back. Joey came up to the city on Friday afternoon, so he was there too! I had a cup of vegetable lentil soup to start and a piece of seared salmon with swiss chard for my main course (salmon two nights in a row...oops).
Frist we got brunch in the upper west side at a restaurant called Isabella's. We started with a fruit plate to share.
My main course was an egg-white omelet with spinach, tomatoes, mushrooms, and low-fat munster cheese. Joey had cinnamon-raisin french toast! Everything hit the spot!
In addition to all of that awesome food, I also enjoyed my fair share of Starbucks' skinny pumpkin spice lattés and a taste testing of two Magnolia Bakery cupcakes right before leaving Saturday evening. I tried pumpkin spice with cinnamon cream cheese icing and red velvet with whipped cream icing...and yes, they were as amazing as they sound.
With all of that nom-ing going on, I felt that I had to at least do some sort of sweating each day in addition to walking all over the city! Wednesday I did take a much needed day off, but I was able to fit a 45 minute workout in at our hotel's surprisingly nice gym each morning. I know it can be really tough to find time to make it to the gym while on vacation because you're not always on your own normal schedule and it's definitely nice to just relax and take at least a day off (I definitely did), but it's also sometimes nice to just get in there and sweat even if it's just for a quick 20 minute run. It always makes me feel a little more comfortable and at ease for the rest of the day, but that's just me and maybe I'm just weird!
Plenty of equipment!
Treadmills overlooking Times Square!
Each day I got my cardio in with 30 minute run on the treadmill at a moderate pace (with a few sprints thrown in here and there). Then for strength training I did a minimum of 50 girl pushups every day as well as a little work with weights, alternating leg lunges, and the standard 5-minute ab routine.
Here are a few other pictures of the trip, just for fun!
Mom, bro, me, Dad...Christmas card picture perhaps?
Walk in central park!
Joey and I went to the Museum of Natural History on Saturday and saw the dinosaurs! Rawr.
Overall, I would say that the trip was a complete success. I had a blast with my family and friends and am so thankful for such a relaxing and fun Thanksgiving break in NYC.
Now it's back to reality. Already can't wait for Christmas break!!
I hope you guys had a great break too! Good luck returning to the real world tomorrow :) I know I'll need it....
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