Otherwise is the Ediets all right? I tried my first Lean Cuisine. Oh my God, I can't eat that stuff. The smell alone while it was being nuked should of warned me. I actually tasted it before I threw it out. How can anybody eat that stuff? I wanted to rinse my mouth out with bleach. I might have nightmares tonight. That one small taste was like a small death, like munching on road kill. Oh the horror.

I suspect that cadaverine is even less safe an appetite suppressand than ephedrine.

Lean Cuisines and the Weight Watchers frozen dinners are good....but they can get pricey.

Beth, get your money back from E-diets. Wait until you have a nice long stretch of no traveling and then go to a WW meeting near you. They'll find someone who can help you with the travel diet.

I hate the food I 'have' to eat when traveling. It just seems like its pointless to try to get something decent, low cal or healthy. If I had a dollar for every nasty meal I sat alone in a hotel room eating it seems as if I'd be rich.

I bring a quarter to half my food when I travel on business. Usually I'll do some bagged cereal (fiber stuff) or a cereal bar for breakfast. Then I've got a thing of raisins or something about 100 - 130 calories for a mid-morning snack. If you can grab a light lunch (salad or a grilled sandwich and half the bun, no mayo), you can still eat a pretty good dinner (drinking water at all meals) and not gain weight. Helps if you can move around some, too, at night. Hotels often have gyms (usually not great ones, but you can work 4 out of 5 body parts with dumbbells alone), and hotels almost ALWAYS have stairs. Torture, yes. Effective, though, VERY effective.

I took a trip in December to a fairly small town near Boston - no hotel gym. I found this ladies gym that let me work out free there, though.

hln

Re: "eating in" at a hotel.

Wife and I tried something we had read about in San Jose Mercury news a year or so ago. Coffee Pot "crock pot". We went to a local grocery store (200 miles away from home) bought a half pound salmon steak, some cauliflower, baby carrots, etc. cut them up with a knife we also bought and filled the coffee pot in our hotel room. Major challenge was that particular brand had a timer and had to be re-started every couple of hours. Turned out rather tasty if I do say so myself.