I know a lot of you guys are probably already taking trips, have taken trips for the summer. I know if you guys are like, I'm getting pretty antsy here, um, to get out and go travel and to go do things, especially after class steer and just not having as many opportunities and options moving around.
So I wanted to help give you guys some tips and tricks when it comes to traveling, when it comes to eating healthy and staying on track, because this is a huge deal.
it is amazing how much information is available to travelers today. When you are traveling with a special diet, it's important to use these resources and really just plan ahead.
Trip advisor.com is a fabulous resource to check out restaurants where you are traveling to before you arrive.
And this gives you the opportunity to review restaurants and menus before you leave. If you stay at your location more than a day or two, you guys can look on Google maps to also see where grocery stores are in, in your vicinity and take the time to pick up some healthy snacks or breakfast options.
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This is episode 40 healthy traveling tips. Welcome back to this thriving diverts podcast, where we choose to become empowered patients and take our health into our own hands. Hi, I'm Shannon Hanson, a Christian entrepreneur, a mom of three. And after dealing with my own health mystery, I made it my mission to learn everything I could about the thyroid. I soon became certified as a holistic wellness practitioner, a functional nutrition practitioner and a functional diagnostic practitioner. And so much more. After that, I founded the revolutionary thyroid program, the Hanson method as a health professional and a mom, I fully understand the importance of having a fun, simple, and sustainable plan for achieving a responsive site. So I share actionable and practical strategies for developing a responsive site so that the ambitious moms and women can gain freedom from fatigue and lose a thyroid weight once. And for all each week, I will be here for you along with my guest experts, we will be sharing simple and tangible tips that work for not only your hormones, your family, and your mindset, so that you can get back to living the life that you envisioned for yourself.
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Welcome to the thriving thyroid podcast. Okay, welcome back. You guys. I know a lot of you guys are probably already taking trips, have taken trips for the summer. I know if you guys are like, I'm getting pretty antsy here to get out and go travel and to go do things, especially after class steer and just not having as many opportunities and options moving around. So I wanted to help give you guys some tips and tricks when it comes to traveling, when it comes to eating healthy and staying on track, because this is a huge deal. It is amazing how much information is available to travelers today. When you are traveling with a special diet, it's important to use these resources and really just plan ahead. Trip advisor.com is a fabulous resource to check out restaurants where you are traveling to before you arrive.
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And this gives you the opportunity to review restaurants and menus before you leave. If you stay at your location more than a day or two, you guys can look on Google maps to also see where grocery stores are in, in your vicinity and take the time to pick up some healthy snacks or breakfast options. That really can be a huge life saver. So with us and our family, we do a lot of road trips where usually within four to eight hours of a lot of really great places to go hang out with. The biggest thing that I have learned with kids and for myself is number one to pack healthy snacks. You guys, because planes get delayed trains get missed. Traffic becomes unbearable. We get the munchies. There's a long distances between this city and that city. So don't forget that we don't want to be caught when we're hungry when we're traveling, because this makes it a lot more likely that we will have more of those non friendly options.
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And that can really derail a lot of your trip, especially if you're like me and you have digestive issues and I eat something I can be very uncomfortable for days, and that's not what we want. Especially when we're on trips. We want to be able to sleep all. We want to have energy feel good. We want to, you know, be able to have the energy to go out. We don't want to be, you know, bloated or heavy or constipated or, you know, having to quickly through us, all of those uncomfortable things. So snacks are a great way to keep them in the car, to have a, you know, a small cooler where you can just kind of restock as you go. Now again, everybody's going to be a little bit different and like different things and different trips are going to require different things. But here we go.
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I will just give you some simple options that are friendly and they travel well. So number one, nuts and seeds. Number two, you guys can make a homemade trail mix and really have the opportunity to customize this trail mix for you and your family. I love to always sprinkle in some m&ms. I like the mini m&ms when I'm making and at home that trail mix. Now I know some of you are going to be like, oh my gosh, Shannon, you eat M and Ms. It's not an everyday thing. You know, we really try to stay away from the guys, but you know, with non trip, you want to have a little bit of fun. And I have found that that is just a really great option for my family, especially since we love the nuts and seeds. One of the other things that I love to do is I make a homemade granola and this is a really, really good for breakfast.
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And it's also really good for snacks. It's also, you know, it's good, right? I'm going to, it's just kind of like an all around. I make it in a way that's a little more sticky. And so it's very snacky. It's not too crunchy anyways. That's just the way that Shannon likes it. The next option for packing snacks, do you guys have bars kind bars, Lara bars, Luna bars. My husband likes these protein bars that I think are disgusting, but you know, have different options or your family and different flavors. And just look for some of those more, obviously clean the options. We love the Lara bars. Half of my family loves the peanut butter ones. The other half loves the chocolate chip ones. I've tried the cherry ones. Those ones are also super good when it comes to the Lara bars.
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So really just kind of look at what works well for you and your family, fruit, you guys, the crew is always a really great option. Apples, oranges, bananas, my husband and my kids love bananas. Great. berries, blueberries, raspberries, things like that can also travel really well. Just make sure you can put it on the top of your ice chest and okay. So other things like jerky, beef, jerky, Turkey, jerky, elk jerky. If you guys have access to that veggies with premise, you know, those little hummus cups, we get the organic ones from Costco or my kids really, really love the guacamole packs from Costco as well. So you guys can kind of mix it up and mix and match those types of things, those peanut butter packages. They have some that are in like those squeezable tube. So that's an option.
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I'm trying to remember, Justin's I believe is the brand where you guys can squeeze that on your apples. You can put it on celery, you can bring raisins and do ants on a lug. There's really a ton of options. Some other things that I like to do, especially when I have maybe a little bit more time to plan and prepare ahead of time. I love to make protein balls for my kids, for myself. I love having the kale chips. I like salty things, kale chips, again from Costco. They have like these cheesy ones that are pretty good applesauce pouches. Again, cost is a great place dates. If you bring those almond butter packages with some dates, that is a fantastic treat when you guys are on the road, because you get a little bit of sweetness and snacky food, and it's just, it's so delicious.
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So delicious. The next tip that I have for you guys, number two is stay well hydrated. I know for me, this is an issue, especially when we're on the road. I don't want to have to pull over and go to the bathroom, but when we're traveling, we always want to have a refillable water bottle with us. This can be great because sometimes when we go traveling or hiking or camping, where, you know, maybe in situations that we don't always have access to water, so water bottles are great. Some of them even have built in water filtration systems. Those can also be good, but if you are traveling, you can fill your water bottle. After you go through security to avoid any of those delays, you can buy water bottles, things like that. It's also especially important to drink more water when you are flying because the air on the airplane is very low humidity, which can cause dehydration.
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So some symptoms of becoming dehydrated include headache, fatigue, reduced concentration, muscle cramps. Now I was on a airplane, oh man. A couple years ago. And there was a lady. We were, I was traveling from Phoenix to somewhere else. I don't remember what or where, but I do remember this lady. She walked past me and I could tell, oh, she doesn't look so good. She went to the bathroom. She came out, she was walking down the aisle and guess what? She collapsed right there in the middle of the aisle. Obviously a lot of people went to her side and they were able to assist her in aid her. Well, it came out that she had gone hiking earlier that day in Phoenix, it was summer, it was hot and she hadn't drank, drank any water. She was drinking sodas and juices and things like that.
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So she was massively dehydrated and will adding the triple or the double whammy, triple whammy, whatever have you, when it comes to the low humidity on the low humidity, on the airplane, exasperated the issue and caused her to think and go down which was know very scary for a lot of people because we were really over nowhere. So if it really was an emergency, it would have had to rate and nobody wants to be caught in a situation like that. So if you are susceptible to motion sickness like you you guys can bring along some herbal tea bags, such as ginger or peppermint or camomile. Those things can be really, really beneficial. You can also look into some homeopathic remedies that is typically what I use in combination. And I've also found that sitting up front, having a little bit of air in my face with AC or either depending on the time of year, that always helps me a little bit as well.
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And then being hydrated, making sure that I'm looking at the road that I'm not looking down. One of the things that I did discover a couple years ago that worked really well for me, at least this is the only combination that I could have found. So at the time I was really struggling with anxiety and I was using CBD patches and I, that specific trip we were traveling and I think it was about six hours to California where you're going to Anaheim. My husband had a business trip there and it just so happened that it was in Anaheim. So we decided, yes, we are going to go and took the kids to Disney and just do some fun things. When he wasn't on his trip. So I took the kids, we did a few things and then he did his thing. And then at the end of it, we, we did business.
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Well, I also had a lot of business work to do, and that meant that I needed to be on my computer. So normally I would not touch my computer or a book or anything while I'm driving down the road, because I am susceptible to that motion sickness. And this 10, I was like, I don't really have another option. I'm going to just kind of do what I put. I was able to work on my computer for close to two hours with one of those CBD patches. And I just thought that that was so amazing. So that may or may not work for you guys, but I use a lot of peppermint when I'm in the car, smelling it. I put it on peppermint, essential oils. Put it on my wrist, on my POLST points around my neck, making sure that I'm smelling it.
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And then we also use some homeopathy or motion sickness, which you guys can Google search and figure out, you know, which one is going to be a good option for you. All right. Number three is aware of hotel breakfast. Free hotel breakfast may save you money, but they're not often vibrated friendlies. So much of what is offered is filled with gluten it's filled with sugar. So really just keep it simple. If you do go use that eggs, right eggs, a lot of them have hard-boiled eggs or they have apples and fruit. And if there is no real healthy option for breakfast, you know, then you can use the snacks that you packed and they come in really handy. Or I know in my area, they have some still pet packages that don't have a lot of sugar in them. So again, planning ahead.
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I can bring some of those if I don't have an option at the restaurant some of the restaurants that we go to are not restaurants, excuse me. Some of the hotels we go to have a little bit better quality of breakfast. I mean, we have a few options, like some potato hashes in the morning, or just different things like that. And we can make pretty good decisions when it comes to eating a hotel breakfast. But a lot of them it's just cereal, maybe oatmeal, maybe, you know, something along those lines. So definitely look into that and you can always look online to see what options they have at those hotel restaurants or hotel restaurants, those hotels have for your breakfast options. Number four, if you guys are going to places that maybe you're staying in an Airbnb, or you have an extended stay, we stayed in a few hotel rooms where we have a kitchenette and two bedrooms.
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So like having a suite where you have maybe some of those options to cook, or maybe you guys, if you're like us and maybe I'm the little bit more advanced stages of your journey. You know, we sometimes bring our instant pot or our slow cooker. I don't have a slow cooker anymore. I just use my instant pot because it's one in the same, pretty much I will bring those or I'll bring like a toaster oven or something like that, so that we can do more cooking at the location that we are staying in, and this can reduce our how often we eat out what we eat out, those types of things. So if you have that option, you know, really planning ahead and being able to go to the grocery store again, especially if you're staying there for two, three, four days.
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I know sometimes with my husband's business trips, we will be there for seven to 10 days. And so it does make a lot of sense for us to go to a grocery store, to cook plan, prepare meals in the hotel room, at least as much as possible. Obviously we're kind of out of our routine. So we do eat out a little bit more, but some of the other things that you can do when you're staying in a hotel, you guys can ask for a mini fridge, a microwave, some of them already have them in the room. That way you guys can just plan, prepare, make sure that you are eating nutrient dense foods that help support your body and help support the function of your body. You can also, if you want to bring a whole bunch of things or just really prioritize the I want to say electronics, the kitchen appliances that you bring, you can bring a smoothie maker and your instant pot, or, you know, or maybe if you have a friends or have a oven in your place, maybe you just want to bring, you know, your blender and that way you can do smoothies, right?
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Bring some protein powder, maybe have it already portioned out for, you know, five days, seven days, and then buy some frozen berries when you get there with some greens or, or, or, or right. We have so many options. And I know her myself, when I first started this journey, I remember thinking, oh my gosh, what am I going to do? How am I going to do this? And it was almost paralyzing. I felt like, I don't know how to go out. I don't know how to do this. And little by little, I got more and more resourceful and it started kind of figuring out, Hey, I have more options. I don't need to push myself back into a corner or, you know, not travel or do some of those things because, you know, I want to live life. I want to enjoy life. And oftentimes that's the biggest thing that holds people up is we really forget that we have options.
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So I hope this episode was very inspiring for you guys, as you travel and give you guys some ideas and at least gave you some opportunities to get those creative juices flowing through you so that you can make better decisions when you travel it and just be more prepared so that you come back from feeling vacation, from feeling energized and full of energy, instead of feeling like, oh my gosh, now I need to detox from my vacation. Nobody wants to do that. We all want to take vacations that when we come home, we feel energized. We feel ready to go with you guys. Thank you so much for being here. And I will see you in the next,
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