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Type 2 Holiday advice

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I've recently been diagnosed T2 and I'm finding my way around the site and an LC diet, not testing yet - waiting for my kit to arrive - and no meds.
I'm due to go on a short UK break with my family in a couple of weeks and I'm already stressing about falling off the wagon. Does anyone have any advice please?
(I should perhaps mention that my family are not aware of my diagnosis, but they will be very used to me being on a diet, as I have been doing that for the past 60 years!)
 
I was away at Christmas with my family. They know I am a diabetic but they didnt know I was doing low carbohydrates. It can be harder when you are away if you do not have control over what you are going to cook to eat. Breakfasts are usually fine because they are British cooked breakfasts. (I of course am assuming its a hotel break). When I was staying in my hotel, Id check out the menu for the evening meal, pick the protein everyone else was eating and asked for a plain version in the morning of the meal. So I had plain salmon where everyone else had sauced salmon, or if there was chicken on Id get that. Id skip the potato but eat the vegs. One night there was nothing on that I wanted to eat so I asked the chef would they do me a couple of boiled eggs. Everyone was concerned because I was not eating carbohydrates but I made sure I had a really big breakfast. They got used to me and my strange ways. I lost 2lb over Christmas, 5 days away without control. I was happy.
 
Wow! That's amazing. Well done!
In fact it's going to be a self-catering break but we've ordered in a pre-cooked dinner each evening. I should be fine with breakfast and lunch because I'll have control, but the rest of the family are real pudding freaks and that's what's really scaring me......
 
I've just come back off holiday and am now an expert on carveries. We were away for seven nights and visited carveries on five of them. The other two evening meals were a specialist fish restaurant where I had a gorgeous and enormous seafood platter (prawns, crab, oysters, etc). The most disappointing meal was a steak in a very expensive restaurant on our anniversary - they completely cremated the steak and served the charred remains with the chips and other stuff they'd agreed to sub with a large salad. My own fault, I should have read the feedback on Tripadvisor first.

As for desserts, I never bother. Just a decaff coffee with pouring cream unless, if course, they've got a nice cheeseboard on offer.
 

Over 2 years on, I have still told few people of my diagnosis. Exactly how many people need to know? Very few in my opinion.

At the outset, when my diet changed, I just told people I had had some bloods done which showed a few things needed to change and that trimming back on the carbs was indicated. (Absolutely no lies there, so I am guilt free.) The odd person who asked what that meant, I just sort of smiled at and said, you really don't want to be bored by all that, I'm sure, then moved on. They got the drift and I think a couple of folks soncluded I was getting the galloping trotskies or something, but I cared not.

After a nano-second, people don't care and get back to their own lives, leaving us to our own brand of "food-nuttery" as reduced carbing is affectionately known on Planet Breathe.

Enjoy your break and just remember two things,............. "Eat more veg and drink more water."
 
debrasue said:
but the rest of the family are real pudding freaks and that's what's really scaring me......
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I wouldn't waste time worrying about what the others want to eat.

Only you can control what you eat, so it's up to you to have that control.
 
AndBreathe said:
Over 2 years on, I have still told few people of my diagnosis. Exactly how many people need to know? Very few in my opinion.
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A neighbour popped round to see parents yesterday. Came straight out with "Have you lost weight?" She was just being nosey, of course. It wasn't that she was concerned. I just said yes I had and now I'm happy that my BP has come down and I don't need medication.
 
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