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BroccoliForever wrote:I just returned from a week long cruise in the Caribbean on a Royal Caribbean ship. I am happy to report that I remained very "compliant" to the McDougall diet the entire week. It was quite boring eating, as I really enjoy cooking my family's meals. However, I wasn't even remotely tempted to eat the junk offered for everyone else--how could I? It was all greasy and cheesy and gross.
Here's what I ate:
B: oatmeal or grits and fresh fruit.
L: salad with plain rice (if the rice was coated in oil, which it sometimes appeared to be, I just ate the salad. I couldn't eat any cooked vegetables at lunch because they were all sitting in oil or coated in butter.
Snack: fruit or plain rice with fruit
D: VERY small salad, plus 1 plain baked potato, steamed rice, steamed vegetables (usually broccoli asparagus and carrots). Small bowl of berries for dessert.
It took a while to convince the wait staff at dinner that I TRULY wanted to eat vegetables NOT coated in oil or butter. And, despite the fact that they delivered what I requested, they always followed up with a question of whether I wanted extra butter or sour cream. Ha!
I think I may have thrown them for a loop because they were quite flustered on the first night. Although I was a gracious tourist and told them to just bring me whatever vegetables they had which could be presented with no oil or butter. The dinner salad was about 1/6th the size of a salad I would normally eat, maybe 4 forks of lettuce.
So, today I went on a walk with one of my friends and she was curious about what I ate as she is aware of my diet. When I told her how I did, she said I wasted my money on that cruise! She said I should have eaten everything in sight because I needed to "get my money's worth". Ha! I told her my money's worth was exactly what I did get. I had amazing experiences with my family. I enjoyed 85 degree weather with no rain (or snow!). I came home not one ounce heavier than when I left. And I didn't have any inner pity parties in the process.
BroccoliForever wrote: Ha! I told her my money's worth was exactly what I did get.
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