This post is going to talk about Alaska, and more specifically, navigating the food on a cruise ship with minimal cheats.
If you’ve ever been on a cruise, you know that food - and lots of it - is generally available to you 24/7. But with a little determination, you can disembark without lugging 5 or 10 extra pounds home with you. And you won’t feel deprived!
For me, the biggest challenge was getting those E meals in. So several mornings, I enjoyed oatmeal, along with fresh fruit and smoked whitefish for protein. I also had a pineapple and cottage cheese plate one afternoon for a snack. That same night, I enjoyed an E meal of wild Alaskan salmon, broccoli, and rice. Here are a few photos:
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| E dinner: Poached wild cod over warm lentils. Confession: I gave away the potatoes and ordered a second plate. Yum! |
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| E dinner of salmon, veggies, and rice. The sauce was an herb butter sauce but I only ate a little bit of it. |
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| Afternoon E snack. I couldn't find any protein for this one. |
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| Another afternoon E snack. Found the protein! Cottage cheese and salmon, to accompany the pineapple and roasted sweet potatoes. Yes, it was a big snack. I was hungry after kayaking on the ocean. |
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| E breakfast: oatmeal, veggies, fruit, yogurt, and smoked whitefish with capers. |
But honestly, most of my other meals ended up as S meals. There were salads galore, and every kind of protein you can imagine. My S breakfasts included things like made-to-order omelets, smoked salmon, veggies, and breakfast meats. S lunches and dinners included lots of delicious salads and proteins.
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| S buffet dinner with a lamb chop, cheese, brussels sprouts (from the kid's section - LOL, what kid loves brussels sprouts??) and the ship's amazing Caesar salad. |
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| A light S meal of fish, beef, veggies, and salad |
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| By the end of the week, my S buffet plates all starting looking the same. |
A common denominator the whole time in Alaska as wild caught salmon. What a superfood! I tried it in so many different ways, each more delicious than the next!
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| A fuel pull meal of wild smoked king Alaskan salmon. The accompanying plate of veggies did not make the photo. |
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| The hazelnut crust on the salmon made this into a crossover. However, my rice-loving hubby was happy to take most of my rice. |
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| A shore excursion with a wilderness chef had us enjoying wild salmon and wild halibut many different ways. |
There were two things missing on the cruise that surprised me. Berries (boohoo, how I missed them!), and stevia. Fortunately, my hubby found me some Truvia packets at our first stop in the tiny town of Hoonah, which had one grocery store. The ship had every other form of sugar and chemical sweetener, but not stevia. My evaluation at the end pointed out this fact to them.
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| Finding stevia was a lifesaver. |
On the boat, I allowed myself 1-2 small desserts per day. To counteract them, I climbed the five floors up to the restaurant buffet deck and back down instead of using the elevators. I went on excursions that kept me moving (biking, hiking, and kayaking). And I made good use of the walking track around the ship on the Promenade deck. I tried to stay as active as possible, because I know I ate a much larger quantity of food than I normally do. (Someday soon I will wrote a post on the other E - exercise!)
Once we left the ship, my hubby and friends enjoyed two nights in an Airbnb and a trip to Denali. A quick grocery store run equipped us with all my THM favorites - veggies, Greek yogurt, cheese, smoked salmon, meat, and BERRIES, lots of them!
I didn’t weigh myself before I left, and I am not weighing myself between trips. I know where my weight was a few weeks ago, and I hope to be somewhere around the same after returning from the Middle East. Thankfully, my clothes feel pretty much the same.
My next post will explore the vast THM possibilities of the Middle East. Mediterranean cuisine, here I come!
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