The Travelling Diet
Image by George Eastman House via Flickr I must admit, the diet does put a major cramp in your style when traveling. We went to Montreal this weekend, and there's nothing worse when going to a fine restaurant and having to defend your green salad and side of asparagus and spinach order to the waitress. If looks could kill for not ordering a 12 oz steak and glass of wine - geesh! I actually felt fine ordering my water with lemon, diet Coke and meal, but when the waitress asked whether I was on a diabetic diet, she apologized that I couldn't eat their food. What a laugh... It actually wasn't that hard. I packed my meat pre-cooked and pre-portioned and brought it to the hotel (which luckily had a refrigerator.) I also brought hard boiled eggs, some fruit, my crackers (breads) and water/Diet Coke which did me just fine. I just kept my vegetable portions for eating out. I didn't have to worry about a thing! That was my first real test traveling on the diet. It was...