Ever feel like almost every food is unhealthy? You think, “I’m hungry. What should I eat right now?” Only to feel like most options actually hamper your clean eating goals.

Imagine this scenario.

You’re hungry. You go to the pantry for lunch ingredients and find bagels, pasta, and rice. You had cereal for breakfast, so you decide not to grab any more of these high-carb foods.

Vegetables! You should eat some vegetables! You open your fridge and peer inside. No, please not another cold salad today. You’ve got to have something tasty stocked.

You look in your freezer. Well, you could heat up the frozen chicken veggie stir-fry…but that has soy sauce and tons of salt. You have frozen peas… Oh look! A Jimmy Dean breakfast sandwich. Wait, those are high carb, high fat, and high salt too.

“Ohmahgerd! What should I eat right now?!?

Your head is spinning.

Nowadays, it feels near impossible to eat healthy while traveling.

Whether driving, flying, taking a train, or riding a bus, the experience is usually exhausting. Couple it with the fact that there’s a huge lack of healthy fast food options, and you’re pretty much guaranteed to end up with a greasy hamburger and sugary coke. Or a Taco Bell burrito. Or Panda Express general Tso’s chicken.

While flying home this past week, I found myself surrounded by fast food restaurants that left something to be desired.

I’m a personal trainer and self-proclaimed fitness fanatic. So while you’d think I’d have figured out how to circumvent these unhealthy temptations, I found myself very ill-prepared.

My high school cross country team had a funny saying.

One of the girl’s moms made AMAZING chocolate chip cookies. Like, unreal. I’ve never tasted anything like them since.

When this teammate brought the cookies to our races, we’d all practically foam at the mouth.

So our team’s saying used to go, “The faster you run, the faster you’re done…and get cookies!”