Do you ever notice that when you travel, you either constantly eat, or don’t eat at all? I feel like whenever I travel I always feel like I have to eat the snack they give you and then you have to eat when you are in between fights (in case you can’t get any food on the plane… like that is going to happen). Its especially bad for me on international flights and when you cross a few timezones. The airlines have found that if you eat as many meals as you are supposed to while crossing the timezones, you don’t get jet lagged as badly….so that means they feed you 5 meals because you are switching timezones, even though its only been a 8 hour flight and you really don’t need to eat that much!
The airline companies are scheming to make us fat. And they are going to charge us for it first because now you pretty much cant get on an airplane without charging you for something.
I went to Saint Louis this weekend to see some friends, and it is only a 2 hour time difference from where I live. I think on the way there it might have been the red eye, 1 am flight to Minneapolis and then the 6am flight to STL, but I really wasn’t jet lagged, just tired. This also could have been due to the fact that I swear I ate like 7 times that day. Apparently the eating thing really works…..
So, thank you airlines, for making me regain all the weight i’ve lost for my vacation, before I even make it to my final destination!