How do you deal with having to adjust your diet?
Last year I found it so very difficult to adjust to Shanghainese diet when I stayed there for a month, and before that Found it even harder to adjust to the available fast food in Hong Kong since our family were staying by ourselves.
The result was that I wasn't feeling too well the entire month and half I was in Asia, and it didn't ruin but it did detract from the fun family holiday.
How would you deal with such an issue? I'd really like to be able to go overseas in the next few years but I know I'll have the same diet problems as before. It's just that my stupid digestive system is a xenophobic bitch.
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I take the most Food with me..... I do not diet but what I eat is not easy....
I´m vegetarian ..just drinking Milk from time to time.... I eat nothing when I´m not sure that it is clean... a knife that sliced meat is not clean so I can´t eat in a Restaurant... I do not eat fried things except in my kitchen because I don´t know if something dead swam in the fat....
I eat only low fat ... next problem what make it impossible to eat in a restaurant....
So I mostly eat just fruits.... or vegetarian finished goods....
Next thing is that I travel with a bunch of heavy drugs.... that makes it heavy to travel without a Drug-pass ( I have one for EU countrys ).... and I must be sure that I can buy my stuff at the next drugstore without problems....so many countrys are out of my reach
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As a truck driver, that was a daily thing for me, for years. The food in Mississippi is not the food in Michigan, is not the food in Boise, is not the food in Sacramento.
What I did was cook a lot of my own on board the truck, or in the microwaves available at various locations and, when I did choose a registrant meal, I chose food that were things I commonly ate, just prepared in a different way. I avoided local water, always opting to buy bottled water and, I went to chain restaurants as much as possible, if I wasn't cooking.
As a general rule, the more perishable it is, the more likely it is to cause undesired effect if you eat it. That stuff is more local than stuff that tolerates longer shipping distances so, go easy on or, avoid highly perishable items - water, dairy, fresh meats (frozen is okay.) Soft produce that will only keep a couple of days (stick to things that store well, winter squash, apples, potatoes, carrots and such.) Or use canned or frozen produce.
I know it's tempting to try the local foods, and that's fine but TRY is the key, don't live on entirely unfamiliar foods.
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set some rules, make them general so they are easy to follow:
-dont eat meat, eggs
-avoid sugar, carbs
-no alcohol
where all these things have their place and are just fine, in a modern diet you can find substitutes. This might force you to eat less and from a know list of better foods.
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Hi,
to tell the truth I am not sure what the problem is. There is a lot of "western type" restaurants and a huge range of shops in both cities. You don't need to eat Chinese meals or local fast food...
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Hello,
Dieting can be a way of emotional change and cutting down on a lot of things can have subsiquental effects on the body. I would recommend if changing diet to wean yourself off gradual foods than starting a new thing altogether give ya body time to adjust
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I hope i did help just a little bit as i am not great with advice haha 
