Intro and Food Question

Hey ya'll from the southeast!

RNY Dec 5 '16 and doing great. Weight 6/15/16 = 260, surgery weight = 235, current weight = 201. (Yes, I'm totally happy to have gone through this through Christmas! LOL).

We manage a riverboat business and I'm a mktg/sales dir. This is the time of year I start being on the road and the riverboat more, so I'm on the move most of the day. I would love some ideas on portable lunch and dinner options for 'on the road' or eating outside on the dock that don't have to be warmed up, as sometimes I'm afraid I will not have the luxury of sitting down to eat and relax.  

Thanks for you help! This seems to be a great, supportive group!

Will you have access to a refrigerator?  

I'll have access to a fridge when I'm' at the dock or on the boat. In the car....I've got several different sizes of coolers.

You should check out our menu thread... lots of great options for lunches and dinners that do not require heating.  Also, Eggface has great bento box ideas.  I bought a bento box with a freezer compartment because some days when I leave the house I am gone for 12 or 13 hours.  Bento boxes have lot of little compartments for small meals.  Eggface's website has a whole section of bento box pictures so you can see what all is in a day.

Good luck - you are doing great!  I am also just the other side of being into the one hundreds.  So exciting!

Awesome...thanks! I'll check them out.

Welcome! 

The very best on the go food is a piece of grilled chicken. Wendy's has a grilled chicken sandwich. Ditch the bun, and it's 27 geams of protein, zero carbs, 130 calories.

I often use a protein bar to keep from eating worse things, but you'd want to avoid those util you're closer to goal.

Wendy's will also sell you just the chicken breast at a lower price.

Wow. I never would have guessed. I always just toss the bun.

One thing I do love about Wendy's is, their downloadable nutrition facts breaks down their menu into components. So we can tell the calories, protein, etc for just the burger, or bacon, or cheese, or bun, separately. All the other restaurants give you the nutrition for the entire cheeseburger, and you have to guess at the individual components.

Great! I just saw the nutrition info on Chick fil-A grilled nuggets (4, 8 or 12 pack) and that's an easy eat also.

I recently went to a chik-fil-A and got the kids meal with 6 piece grilled nuggets...they were good, but tiny....