CNN: Is it possible to lose weight on a cruise?

Stepping on the scale is the last thing you want to do when you get home from a cruise. It ain’t gonna be pretty. All those late-night meals, desserts, fruity drinks — they add up, and they add pounds.

The typical cruise passenger gains one pound a day on a voyage of seven to 10 days, said John Primeau, a spokesman for Holland America, citing a longtime adage of cruise professionals.
But most of the pounds are packed on early in the voyage. Royal Caribbean statistics show that more food is consumed in the first few days of a cruise, and then passengers begin to slow down, said Frank Weber, the vice president of food and beverage operations for the cruise line.

While many people go on cruises to relax and enjoy the overwhelming number of food choices, experts say it is possible to enjoy what’s on the menu without adding pounds — if you have a plan.

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Make Travel Fun – Laugh At Yourself

To really make travel fun and make it easy to meet new people, you need to be ready to laugh at yourself. We think that a willingness to make yourself look a little silly is a quality that helps get people on your side.

Nothing is quite so “off-putting” as a stuffy traveler. In our family we call people like this “WLAs”… translated to “World’s Leading Authorities”. They are travelers who think that the way they do things in their own country is the best way. They don’t have to be just the rich and famous… any traveler who holds himself apart from the culture he’s visiting will miss a large part of what’s fun about travel.

Find Cheap Restaurants

When you’re visiting a strange country or city, how do you find cheap restaurants? Travel can get expensive, and whether you’re on a big budget or a tight one, you might not want to be eating at expensive restaurants every night.

We’re not necessarily talking “greasy spoons”…. Low budget food doesn’t have to be low on flavor. What you want to try to do is go where the locals go. This is often more fun too; you may even end up being the only tourists in the place. If you are, you’ll have way more local flavor than you might in a restaurant that has the menu in four or five languages.