Eating while traveling after gastric bypass

There is, further down in my older posts, a piece on eating while traveling, but at the time I was traveling by vehicle.  Now, as a flight attendant, I’m in hotels almost every night, and making sure to get my needed protein during a 13- to 14-hour day is even more important.

So, I’m typing this at a hotel breakfast table in Indianapolis.  My breakfast choices were limp bacon–I did have one slice, which I chewed up very well, but wouldn’t eat a second slice on a bet.  There were also egg rounds, these circular pre-fab slices of scrambled egg, warmed up and  shoved in a steam table drawer.  There were also boiled eggs.  Fortunately or unfortunately, eggs still make me nauseous, even at nearly three years post-op, so neither of those was an option for me.  I could also have had a donut or sugared cereal.  Bleah. 

My choice ended up being a well-toasted bagel with cream cheese.  And yes, I can eat an entire bagel at this point, and it will hold me for about four or five hours.  That will keep me going until I take a break after one of our four legs and eat the Kashi bar and string cheese that I’ve been hauling around in my crew cooler.  Breakfast is usually the only meal that I eat at the hotels I stay in, and having a hot breakfast (and coffee) is key to feeling halfway decent through most of the morning.  Captain’s waiting for me, gotta fly!