Picture two trainees at the same hotel buffet. One announces "vacation calories don't count," eats 12,000 over five days, gains three kilos, and spends the next two weeks "earning it back" on an aggressive deficit that fails by Wednesday. The other has packed a Tupperware. Refuses the local food. Tracks every gram. Posts the salad to Instagram. Both are exhausted. Both are wrong.
FG12 is the middle ground.
Inside this one
- The three travel-eating priorities, with the science underneath
- Per-meal framework for buffets, restaurants, airports, conference catering
- The alcohol rule, the hydration rule, the post-trip restart rule
- Brad's vacation-license pattern vs. the sustainable middle ground
- Pocket quick-reference card for the plane
- Full Technical Addendum — every claim cited
Who this is for
the trainee who travels for work, holidays with family, attends conferences, or stays in hotels and wants a framework that survives all four.The standard it is held to
Every factual claim in this volume names its source, and every claim carries a confidence grade — settled, strong, emerging or contested. Where the evidence is thin, the text says so. How it’s made, in full → · What we’ve got wrong →