82) Still doing great with higher carbs & minimal food restrictions, even on vacation!

I am writing to you from New York during the kids' spring break holiday.  This vacation is the first vacation we have taken with a greatly decreased "food police patrol" meaning that we have not locked up, gone out of our way to hide food, or restricted snack access from Sasha.  Normally, we have resorted to locking or hiding food from Sasha (we tend to stay in Airbnbs so we have access to a kitchen) but this time we just leave the bagels out and the peanuts around.  We've detected no evidence of excessive eating (can't call it sneaking anymore since the food is out and accessible)!

We are also doing a lot of walking (6 miles a day on average) and despite his flat feet and bad ankles, he is doing remarkably well!  We are relaxing our lower carb food regime on vacation but still eating fewer sweets than most people would on a vacation in New York (so far on our 5th day, we've had frozen yogurt once and shared a double scoop of ice cream between the four of us once- that's it).  Still, we are eating very well and Sasha is keeping up excellent energy in spite of his higher carb diet- gotta eat New York speciality foods like latkes, bagels and pizza while we're here, right?!

Even though he's eating latkes (pictured above), pizza and bagels,
Sasha's excellent energy and lack of hunger
 confirms that he is no longer hypersecreting insulin!

As we have observed on this trip, Sasha's appetite has been moderate and even lower than expected, especially considering all the extra walking we are doing.  It is noticeable that he is NOT complaining of hunger as often as he used to and is not obsessing about his next snack fix.

It is such a pleasure to be here on holiday and not have to stress out about being the food police.  Ahhh...  I could get used to this!  Let's see if he can keep up the good work when we return home.  I anticipate that after another few weeks or so of his open snack cabinet, we will unlock the family snack cabinet next which will mean that the entire kitchen will be unlocked and accessible to Sasha 24 hours a day... wow, won't that be amazing?