Ketogenic Travelers

[Jduvernay]

Yes those are my new favorite chocolate!

[betsy.rome]

What does MCT powder taste like?
Does anyone know how they make it a powder - obviously a processed food, is it as good for you as liquid MCT?
or are you better off on the road just getting Half & Half in your coffee, since most places do not have HWC.

[Jduvernay]

MCT powder has no taste. It is great for warm and cold drinks. It is processed but I don’t let it bother me.
I do not drink half & half. There are too many carbs I would rather drink my coffee black.

[Jduvernay]

Also you can usually find little butter containers like these that work well in coffee.

[trekkin1]

Wow, great travel ideas!
I take a tip from Dave Aspery and travel with a flask of olive oil and an avocado. If you have no other decent options you can dump that on a salad.
Also nuts, Epic bars, jerky, cheese, and look for hotels with free breakfasts that features egg and meat options.

[momzbusy2012]

However, right now I’m living in a hotel for at least 5 weeks. You can follow me at facebook The Traveling Ketonian. Here is my setup.

Impressive! Now that’s dedication!

[LindaA]

These are all great tips but my situation is a little different and I’m wondering if anyone can help. Hubby and I are flying to Johannesburg from Sydney on Monday for a 32 day tour ‘safari’ through Sth Africa, Zimbabwe and Botswana.

About 80% of meals are included in the tour price and I have let the tour guide know that I eat Keto, told him similar to Banting (as I believe they call it over there) and he said he would pass the info along to the places where we are to stay but could not guarantee anything.

I’m planning to fast on the plane there and back and I’ll take some nuts with me for the tour in case of emergency (if I can get them into Sth Africa). There’ll be a lot of places where we can’t just pop into the nearest supermarket to grab some cheese and salami!

I’m prepared to refuse food if I have to but wondering if anyone has travelled there or lives there and give me any tips??

TIA

[collaroygal]

Bumping this up because we all travel sometime and some good info in here.

@LindaA, did you ever get info on S. Africa keto survival?

[LindaA]

Thanks for asking!
No, didn’t get any tips but now 3 weeks into the 5 week trip and doing fine. Fasting through a lot of meals that are not suitable and asking for alternatives where I can. The locals are very confused and don’t understand but I don’t eat something just to please them! If I have to, I eat the butter out of the butter dish to get extra fat!

When I get back I weigh in and see how I went, but I don’t appear to have put any weight on. I think I’ve been kicked out of ketosis, but with all the travelling, I’m not surprised.

[LindaA]

I’m now back from travelling for 5 weeks through Southern Africa and besides having a wonderful time, I picked up some great tips for travelling whilst eating Keto.

My weight the morning I left was 60.1kg (I’m at my goal weight) and the morning after arriving home I was 59.9kg, so no significant change.

I ate breakfast before leaving at 0700 to get to the airport for an 1100 flight then fasted until I arrived at out hotel in Johannesburg (14 hour flight + 2 hours at the other end) so 20 hours of fasting all up, easy peasy after doing a Zorn Fast! I took salt with me and kept asking for water.

For most dinners, I had meat and vegetables or side salad, no starch please! and always asked for no dressing or sauces and I asked for extra butter or olive oil. Most people didn’t have a problem, although I did have one guy roll his eyes at me!

For breakfast if it was available as an option, it was bacon and eggs or an omelete and I requested not only extra butter, but also that it was cooked in butter as opposed to margarine or vegetable oil. If there was only a continental breakfast available, I either fasted or had the cheese and meat slices if there were any.

I skipped most lunches as there just wasn’t anything I was prepared to eat, but it was easy to buy macadamia nuts wherever we were, so I had those as a back up if I was hungry. But most often I wasn’t.

The biggest tip I can offer when faced with breads, pastas, potato and desserts (which were all included in the cost of the tour) is just say “no thanks”! I had control over everything that went into my mouth, no one else.

I will say that I haven’t found it as easy to get back into my pre holiday routine and as of this morning (11 days later) I’m up a couple of kilos and feeling more hungry than normal. I’ve done a couple of 24 hour fasts and will do the September Zorn fast when it comes up in September.

At the end of the day, I’ll keep switching it up and see what happens.

[cyberbobcity]

Chicago literally has meat everywhere. Not just in the city, but the suburbs too. There is a crapload of places you can go, from Lou Malnati’s which has sausage crust pizza

OMG! Lou Malnati’s is my favorite pizza! I did not know they had a sausage crust pizza!! I’m trying this out ASAP (after I get done fasting). Looking at their nutrition on their web site though, I’m a bit skeptical. It says in most any slice, there is 2 carbs…I have to believe their tomato sauce is more than that. I’m definitely going to try it though. Thanks for the tip Donna!