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<blockquote data-quote="JoKalsbeek" data-source="post: 2334697" data-attributes="member: 401801"><p>Ah, Christmas.... I usually have a say in what gets served up, and not being British, mince pies and such aren't exactly the standard here anyway. It'll all be rather different this year, but it'll probably be all meat all the time these holidays. Venison, as a special treat, as well as salmon and steak. So I stick with lots of meat, fish, deviled eggs and whatnot, obviously. I love gingerbread spices so I've been putting those in my coffee. There are workarounds if you want them. And if you don't? <em>Then you don't. </em>It's YOUR choice. Just be aware that carbs are indeed addictive, and you<em> might</em> get cravings again you'd have to fight through into January, feel ill for a bit... I know if I spike, I'm knackered and confused, wobbly and whatnot, and I don't want to spend the holidays like that. But that might not happen to you at all...! You'd have to try it to find out. (Maybe on a day where it doesn't matter if you're knocked over by a feather, rather than the holidays themselves). We're all different, so that makes it a hard one to answer. If you have a backbone of steel and know you can keep it as a one-off... It's not going to give you diabetic neuropathy, kidney damage, blindness or retinopathy if you just have a few days off from being a diet-controlled diabetic. A lot of us relax our diet over the holidays, and then I also mean holidays in the sense of being on vacation somewhere... Though with a cruise's buffet I'd be all over the meat and fish and ignore the rest. Well, maybe steal a bite of my husband's chocolate cake dessert or something... It really is up to you.</p><p></p><p>But like I said, if this is something you want to be doing semi-regularly, for cruises and celebrations... Check how you are with stuff like that first. Whether you have difficulty getting back on the wagon and whether you feel tired and ill if you fall of the wagon more than a little.</p><p></p><p>And above all else... If you do drop off, make sure it's worth it. The meal'd better be a really, <em>really</em> fabulous one. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> Don't waste it on bland crisps. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JoKalsbeek, post: 2334697, member: 401801"] Ah, Christmas.... I usually have a say in what gets served up, and not being British, mince pies and such aren't exactly the standard here anyway. It'll all be rather different this year, but it'll probably be all meat all the time these holidays. Venison, as a special treat, as well as salmon and steak. So I stick with lots of meat, fish, deviled eggs and whatnot, obviously. I love gingerbread spices so I've been putting those in my coffee. There are workarounds if you want them. And if you don't? [I]Then you don't. [/I]It's YOUR choice. Just be aware that carbs are indeed addictive, and you[I] might[/I] get cravings again you'd have to fight through into January, feel ill for a bit... I know if I spike, I'm knackered and confused, wobbly and whatnot, and I don't want to spend the holidays like that. But that might not happen to you at all...! You'd have to try it to find out. (Maybe on a day where it doesn't matter if you're knocked over by a feather, rather than the holidays themselves). We're all different, so that makes it a hard one to answer. If you have a backbone of steel and know you can keep it as a one-off... It's not going to give you diabetic neuropathy, kidney damage, blindness or retinopathy if you just have a few days off from being a diet-controlled diabetic. A lot of us relax our diet over the holidays, and then I also mean holidays in the sense of being on vacation somewhere... Though with a cruise's buffet I'd be all over the meat and fish and ignore the rest. Well, maybe steal a bite of my husband's chocolate cake dessert or something... It really is up to you. But like I said, if this is something you want to be doing semi-regularly, for cruises and celebrations... Check how you are with stuff like that first. Whether you have difficulty getting back on the wagon and whether you feel tired and ill if you fall of the wagon more than a little. And above all else... If you do drop off, make sure it's worth it. The meal'd better be a really, [I]really[/I] fabulous one. ;) Don't waste it on bland crisps. ;) [/QUOTE]
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