Christian Graus wrote:The hardest part is not what you eat alone, it's what you eat with family.  I do a sugar free dessert for my dinner with the in laws every week, and eat one chocolate, b/c it's a ritual we've had for a long time ( although I used to eat a lot more than one ).  I do think that one chocolate a week is the reason I still have the odd craving, but I can control it, and it was a MAJOR deal in the family that I might stop doing it ( I supply the chocolates, from the US ), so I just rolled with it.  What we eat at home, is far easier to control rigidly.

Christine I just saw a subject in this forum that was a website where you can buy Fructose free chocolate...might this help?? given that you suply the chocolate??...

Thanks Christine,

Hello Christian,

sharon bartsch wrote:Hi I am trying to start today...my hick up is...and I know all about excuses!!!!...On 25th July  we head off over to switzerland and canada for about 6 weeks.....should I realistically wait till I get back???....Will I be able to manage while travelling...I dont want to get 2 weeks in...bugger it up on holiday and have to do the pain all over again.....or am I just avoiding...LOST!!! in the decision because I am in the middle of sweet poison and am feeling very very bad about sugar....

Sharon Bartsch

Hi Sharon
I am in my eleventh week of traveling. We started off in Italy, doing the back roads for five weeks. All the hotels we stopped in, however small, had a savoury choice at breakfast...........usually hard boiled eggs, cheeses and meats. We ate our evening meal at restaurants and it's easy to choose your food and be completely sugar free.

 Italians don't dress their salads and offer you the choice to dress it yourself. I'm sure you will find the same in Switzerland and Canada, that you won't be craving the sweet stuff anyway and if it's family or friends you are visiting, they should, like mine, bend over backwards to accommodate you. Mine do tend to tease a bit, my daughter and her husband kept rubbing me with sugar cubes and saying "Go on, you really want it, don't you" And other such remarks.

Also we were very lucky with our flights, Emirates offer a choice of menu and it was very easy to eat sugar free with them. We had cooked breakfasts to choose from and I simply didn't drink the juice or eat the deserts with the main meals.

Have a great holiday, and enjoy the food, you will find that being sugar free will re invigorate your taste buds and food will taste better than ever before. And I'm sure you will be able to eat good breakfasts in Canada................snack on nuts at lunchtime and eat a good sugar free meal in the evening. Listen to your appetite control and you won't overeat. And you can ask for your salads to be dressing free if they come dressed.

One thing I did find though, our friends in Spain were thoroughly shocked at the high fats I ate. But they did agree to stock up with eggs, bacon, whole milk, butter and full fat cheeses and meats for me.
After an initial tease, that is.

Also, we would stock up and pay ourselves for things we knew they wouldn't eat. I took a photo one morning of the breakfast table................all the huge amounts of fruit they eat, the high sugar muesli, their low fat spread, milk and juices, with my meal in the foreground.................scrambled eggs, cheese and prosciutto with my cup of tea and my whole milk next to it. It made an amusing photo.

Also, my cousins were amazed at how much weight I have lost but couldn't come to terms with what I eat now.

cheers
Freda

Thanks Chaps for caring - I guess really I know full well that I am actually in charge of what goes down the haatch - I spose I was just almost hoping for another out - shame on me - I am now day 3 - going OK exceptfor a deadly headache - like a dehydration head and  a little loose tummy, but yeah so far so easy.  Really hsould clean out the pantry but feel like I have to destroy the syrups and sugars - yes  I am a great baker - Giving it away feels like I am poisoning or feeding heroin to my family and or friends.