I'm on holiday in Siena, 5 days of non-stop pasta temptation. I have eaten my own cooked breakfast , and restaurant lunch and dinner everyday- and managed to find on every menu something appetising and low carb even in Italy. The fact that I was avoiding carbs would not have been particularly noticeable to anyone with me.
The culmination of the week was an Italian wedding yesterday, It was a day of non stop food.
Two egg omelette for breakfast , Italian bruscheta for lunch , Five course Italian wedding in dinner, plus champagne, red wine, white wine and whiskey.
I partook of everything with gusto with one important difference.
I took the tops off the bruscheta and ate those bits instead cheese, ham, tomato, aubergine plus some peanuts but no crisps.
I told the waiter at the dinner that I couldn't eat pasta, he gave me all the same courses with the pasta removed - ( which was in every course except dessert) as such I got more of all the expensive stuff than everyone else - so much in fact that I passed half along to hubby. I even ate two extra langoustines passed to me from others on the table who didn't like shellfish ! there were tiny small deserts to choose from. I tried a spoonful of four of those giving the rest to hubby.
The end result was that my blood sugars stayed around 7 during and after eating, no spikes at all and were down to 6.5 by bedtime. I also didn't feel bloated or slightly dizzy and hot which has accompanied mega meals before - no doubt because my BS had gone through the roof unbeknownst to me.
All in all , I'm really pleased that it seems that with a bit of adjustment it is possible to cope with even the grandest occasion without actually having to do anything more dramatic than just say no to the boring bits of the meal.
I checked this morning and I'm still in ketosis too. My morning bs is a bit higher than normal, but that's doesn't seem that surprising ( 8.8) given I was putting food in my mouth for what felt like about 10 hours solid, which will hopefully go away with a long walk and a missed lunch today.
So all in all a result. I doubt I will have lost weight on this holiday but hopefully I won't have done too much damage either.