Spending a lot of time travelling can be difficult.
Hotel breakfasts, just leave the hash browns, baked beans and toast and you’ll be fine! Probably wise to also leave the sausage as sausages vary so much, when you’re buying sausages to cook at home always check the carb contents, 2 sausages vary from about 0.6g carbs to over 10! As we aim for 20-30g carbs a day in total 10g in sausages would be too many, have 2 eggs and an extra rasher of bacon instead.
Personally, hubby and me always start the day with a hearty breakfast (vary between full English, omelette, smoked salmon and scrambled eggs, poached haddock and poached eggs) then don’t eat again till dinner. Steak and Salad or grilled fish and salad would be the obvious ones, ask for a pat of butter to go on your fish or steak. We have a black coffee at lunchtime and share a little bar of 85% chocolate (the mini bars, can’t remember if they are from Lidl or Aldi), if we’re at home we have double cream on the coffee, otherwise black!
Would tend to go for salad as most often even if there are fresh veg it is likely to be the three ‘worst’ carrots, peas and sweet corn.
We went out for dinner yesterday, I had a chicken skewer for a starter, hubby had garlic fried prawns, I had fillet of pork in a cream sauce with extra fried cabbage (no baby roast potatoes). There was maybe a bit of thickening in the sauce, but don’t stress too much about such things, hubby had grilled hake and a salad, no chips.
This is one of our favourite restaurants and the waiter finishes our order off for us, haha! “No chips / potatoes and a side salad, no dessert, coffee Americano”
And our last HbA1cs were identical, 29mmol/mol. But we’ve been very low carb for maybe 5 years or more! My advice is to just go very low carb from the start, the food choices become second nature and you learn to love the food you can eat! Hubby may look longingly at a pie, but I don’t think he’ll ever eat one again! I think measuring, having a smaller piece of this that or the other just makes it more difficult in the long term. ‘Cold turkey’ worked for us! Many people would disagree and aim for nearer 30g carb per meal, and eating to the meter, incorporating carb foods to a level that doesn’t spike blood glucose too much. You choose whatever works for you, but very low carb nearly always works (I think) and is more simple, in the long term.
And I’ve lost 25kg, Hubby’s lost 32kg - and we never feel deprived or hungry. We eat out often with friends and usually get the reaction, “Oh aren’t you good”, but we don’t feel like we’re being ‘good’ we just eat what we can eat, and enjoy it!