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  • 12 Jan 2012 8:13 PM
    Message # 793526
    Deleted user

    My husband and I have just completed a cruise on a top line ship.  After 16 days away, we have each lost half a kg. 

    I have been following sugar free since I was diagnosed with type 2 Diabetes in September.  I have lost 10 kg, but more importantly all my blood readings, cholesterol and triglycerides and BMI have come back to near or completely normal.  (see post Diabetes Success Story in Introduce yourself).

    I was concerned just how I would go eating all that delicious fare on the ship, knowing that most people put on a lb. a day on cruises.  I did not restrict what I had, but I did restrict anything with sugar.  On that point, one night I tried the "sugar free" dessert and my BGL readings showed me that the dessert was definitely not "sugar free". This was confirmed by one of the dining room staff next morning, who said they were sweetened with (you guessed it!) FRUCTOSE.

    My typical day on board was champagne, omellete, bacon, two slices whole wheat toast and tea for brekkie. Lunch was normally chicken, roast meat, or salmon with salad, and good old iced water.  Around 5 p.m. we had canapes and a cocktail (not sugar based).  Before dinner we had another cocktail, then appetiser, soup or salad, main course (normally chicken, fish, beef, or pork) with a side salad.  Dessert was cheese plate or berries.  We had a bottle of red wine or champagne each night with dinner as well.  At no time did I feel hungry or deprived. 

    My husband sort of tried to do the sugar free thing, but was a sucker for the dessert each night.  I was pleased that he at least recognised the things that caused the problem, and restricted his consumption to night time dessert only.  He used to fall for the home made choc chip cookies in the afternoon on previous cruises, but this time he abstained.

    We both felt that we had not put on much weight, but were over the moon when we got home and found that we had each actually lost on this anything but restrictive diet.  Hubby has lost 6 kgs since I went on sugar free (typical male, I go on the diet, he loses the weight!), but I thought that perhaps the desserts may have caused a problem on the cruise. 

    As I said in my previous post, anyone who has weight, diabetes, or other weight related health issues and is not at least giving sugar free a fair trial is doing themselves a disservice.

    We are leaving on a month long cruise in February, which was booked long before I found I had type 2 Diabetes.  I had been concerned that my life on board was going to be miserable with the necessity to restrict lots of foods.  I now know that I will enjoy this next cruise as much as I have enjoyed the cruise we have just finished.

    Bon voyage,

     

  • 13 Jan 2012 6:57 PM
    Reply # 797342 on 793526
    Deleted user
    Well done
  • 16 Jan 2012 9:23 PM
    Reply # 800551 on 793526
    Deleted user
    Hi, Merle, thanks for that post, it just goes to show that if you do the right thing, it works. My BFF, Beryl was diagnosed a couple of years ago, but, a normally open minded person, is not interested in anything i tell her about this way of life. won't even read the stuff I send her. I know this, as I am a Psychic (haha!, yes truly) and I know her very well. She says she will read it, bit I know different.   There's only one way for her, her Doctor's way. Everything he says is the Truth the Whole Truth, and nothing but!!!!    She give al sorts of excuses for not reading the evidence, plus sires like Dr Jack Kruse's Leptin Reset, and Mark's Daily apple, to no avail. One such excuse was that Oh, 'I've got the sort of Diabetes that's inherited, it's in my family'. I Googled this up and found out that all Diabetes is inherited.  Excuse blown out of the water. So, now I would love her to read your post, but I have given up. I've remembered that it's her journey and you can only try to help by putting the info before people, but you can't make them do anything about it!! (Horse, drink water, come to mind?) haha....We all have free will.  It sounds as if you had a great time, and lucky you to be going on another one, so soon........I wish you both a very happy cruise, and here's to David.....yay....

    Let us know how you go on that one, oh, I forgot, full marks for DH, he should (and you) be feeling very proud.

    Bye

    Sylvia x     aka    Silver Angel

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  • 14 Feb 2012 7:11 PM
    Reply # 825526 on 793526
    Deleted user

    That's really encouraging!  I lost alot of weight (113kg down to 79kg) eating a low carb, low fat diet.  I felt pretty good but went on three cruises in two years.  Every cruise was associated with weight gain and at the end of the last cruise in October 2011 I'd gone back up to 99kg.  There was no way I was going over the ton again so tried to buckle down to the low carb diet again.  I lost 7kg but just could not sustain it until I read Sweet Poison and the associated diet book. I've been on it for 16 days now and have already lost the desire to eat anything sweet.  My weight is down a little but the best thing is how well I feel on it.  I too have a cruise in October so have eight months to lose alot of weight as well as the desire to eat anything sweet.  The choc chip cookies, cakes, puddings, icecream and sweet cocktails were all my undoing.  I'm hoping that after eight months I will have lost the desire to eat these foods and like you will not put on the weight that usually accompanies cruising.

    Thanks again for your encouraging words!

    Liz

  • 31 Mar 2012 9:23 PM
    Reply # 873516 on 793526
    Deleted user

    Hi Liz,

    Well we are back from 5 weeks away, 4 on the cruise, and neither my husband or I have put on any weight.  We have not lost any either, but this is a big improvement from previous cruises where we spent the following year trying to lose what we had put on so we could go on another cruise.

    The ship we were on was a six star, with french champagne, wines, spirits available 24 hours per day. Food was superb and as much as you wished for.  Despite starting the day with champagne with breakfast, champagne for morning tea, champagne for lunch, champagne in the afternoon, pre dinner cocktails, champagne again with dinner, and post dinner cocktails again, the weight stayed the same. Our clothes fitted as well at the end of the cruise as at the beginning, and we still enjoyed ourselves, never feeling even the least bit hungry.

    I do not seem to be losing much since we returned, but am now at normal BMI, so expect to slow down somewhat.

    The great part is that I never feel hungry now, don't feel like I am on a diet, and other than the occasional breakout with some crackers and cheese, don't have any problem sticking to sugar free.

    I do notice that my skin is starting to take up the slack from the weight I have lost (10kg), and every day I feel fitter and more toned, though not doing nearly enough exercise to satisfy the dietitian or my husband. 

    I have no hesitation in recommending this eating plan to anyone, and in fact have convinced a number of my relatives with longstanding weight issues to at least give up the Coke, limit the juice, and drink more water.  It's all good.

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