Diet and vacations

Hello to all,
being August, I'll make some days of vacation in France.
The problem is, I'm not really sure on how to manage the food. I'm really curious about new foods, and when abroad I like to eat the local cousine.

The former me surely started to eat a lot going in bakeries, diners, and so on. The current type 2 diabetic me, albeit well controlled, doesn't know exactly what to do.

I think that is worse to overthink about calories and so on, because surely I'll kill my vacation mood, but of course I mustn't go in "vacuum cleaner" mode. Not having a scale nearby surely I'll stop to check weight.
Frankly if I'm in Lyon, I'll ask a Salade Lyonnaise, even if that has croûtons, lamb, chicken, fried bacon and quenelles, even if it has a lot of flour and eggs, and the cervelle de canut, even if is made with greasy cheese.

What do you think?

DavidGrahamJones said:

Broadly speaking I'd suggest avoiding what you avoid now, anything with bread, pasta, potato or rice. Add to that anything made with flour.

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Actually I eat some pasta or some bread. Normally I avoid rice. I neve liked potatoes very much, so i don't eat them. The fact is I normally a lot on vegetarian side, especially when I have to cook alone. Spoiling a pasta or vegetable or some eggs is difficult, much easier to spoil the meat or the fish, and I'm not really a good cook, but I'm slowly learning.

I think you can make life easier by not putting it on your plate in the first place.

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In a restaurant or a brasserie you normally don't have to otion to decide what goes into the dish.

In fact, what's really weird is that I always lose weight on holiday, much to my wife's annoyance.

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That, for me, has an explanation: I like visting museuma, looking at architecure and walk in the streets of the cities. I love also walking in the countryside in the panorama is good.
Having to drive in holidays in the traffic is not a thing I like too much, so I then to walk a lot during holidays.

Bon vacances (I love France).

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Merci beaucoup, moi aussi j'aime bien la France. La langue françcaise par contre c'est dificile...

How all it ended...
First of all I've had a lot of fun, and I've managed to survive talking in French. I've had a problem and the French pharmacist was very helpful when she understood that I was still studying French (ie. when I took my dictionary and grammar to explain the problem I had.
I still have some museums to visit and some places too, so I think I'll make a weekend trip or two in the autumn: the bus fare is 34 euro, not very much and the bus itself is very very comfy.

French cuisine is really really good, even if I managed to stay under 110 mg/dl (6.5 mmol/l) fasting I cot some weight, I think 3 kg.
The salade lyonnais is really super, so the andouiette or the chicken with vinegar sauce (that is creamy actually), La cervelle de canut and the Saint Marcelin are very very very tasty... Of course I didn't dare to go to eat in french pizzerias or domino's pizza.

Other bad news I've walked too much and I got blisters on the feet. Then, after the return home, I ve found that feet and legs got swollen, I've called the ER hotline on Sunday, they told me to go to the nearest ER ward, where i got visited and got some antibiotics. After the treatment with antibiotics and some herbs all seems OK, the blisters haven't broken, and after the visit to my GP the problem was that I walked too much and didn't sleep much. Anyway for some days I'll stay on weight loss diet to lose the 3 kg I gained.

Brunneria said:

Sounds like you had an excellent time. I am envious!

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Yes, I had good times. Thank you.
I thi k that having bought a guide, Hachette's le routzrd, had hslped me very much, especially because using internet abroad could be difficj!t, and tripadvisor mobile site is almost unusable o. a cellphone. And of course paperbacks and paper maps don't have any battery tha can be depleted!