After days of traveling, food maybe doesn’t process as easy. As a dancer, dancing on a full and bloated stomach never feels good. Well, to me personally. It’s why maybe people don’t eat right before a workout or they eat something really small. I know it is a personal stance for me. Well, after a day of sitting for 24 hours, eating feels weird. I already am having stomach issues after sitting and not doing any physical activity, I all of the sudden am feeding my body and trying to fuel it when really I wasn’t doing anything, the concept just doesn’t make sense to me.
Something about being in an airport automatically leads me to eating chips and candy. I don’t know why, but it seems almost impossible for me to eat healthy. The concept just doesn’t exist. Well, on a plane you get given snacks and meals. I put a picture of one of my meals in the last post but I will add it again just in case.
You can’t really tell in this picture but from left to right, top to bottom it is water, bread, a chocolate mousse dessert, chicken and rice and coleslaw. An interesting dinner for a flight but bon appetit. Throughout the day of traveling, eating is necessary but it is a hard thing for me. I don’t drink too much water because I don’t want to use the bathroom so much on the flight and annoy the person sitting next to me and if I eat too much my body simply just does not digest it. Idk how to fix it honestly.
But all that to say, I am a believer in digestion walks. Now what is one? It is a walk after you eat and I am making up the term#trendsetter. Now when we landed in Italy, we had probably been going for at least 20 hours, we were hungry, we ALL smelled bad and we had another drive to even get to the town of Pietrasanta. It was a long process. When we got to our hotel, we knew we could go eat lunch so all of us who were there dropped off our luggage and walked to the restaurant.
There was a restaurant partner with our hotel and this is where we would eat lunch everyday. It was a beautiful restaurant on the beach with the sweetest workers. We were able to order off a menu of options. I ordered gnocchi pesto pasta, caprese salad and water because I was so dehydrated. It was my first time having gnocchi, it’s like a potato pasta. That’s the best way for me to describe it. I was so full after eating but it was amazing. I already felt better just having good and clean food in my system.
During our day that day, we had to go rent bikes and just do things. Our chaperone for the trip was renting a car with one of the students and so we all just laid around and rested majority of the day so it was a nice transition. And of course, we all showered immediately when we got to the hotel.
Later in the evening, we all went to dinner and boy did we eat. We ate so much food that the group decided necessary to take a digestion walk. Now, this was a spontaneous decision but something that I am thankful we did. We were able to walk off our food but also get to explore the beach in Italy. It was 10pm at night and just us strolling around. It was great. I believe the beach was called Fiumetto Beach but I could be wrong. On this walk, my thoughts were cleared after some long and stressful hours. I got to thinking about how I was on a different continent, 5,000 miles away from home and just was traveling like I always dreamed.
I think something that I couldn’t wrap my mind around is that I wasn’t a 6 or 8 hour drive home. I was across the world basically. On my digestion walk, I was able to just listen to the ocean and the waves hitting shore. I admired the soft sand and everything about it. I thought about the food I ate but also that I was finally able to get in physical activity. I analyzed probably every detail possible. I kept thinking “How is this my life?” I didn’t understand. I am so thankful for my digestion walk that night and the ability to find gratitude in so many little things. I recommend a digestion walk, whether that’s down the street, on a beach, your walking your dog or whatever. Find the little things, it makes life better.
