I will say that Royal Caribbean does a GREAT job for people who need Sugar Free items, as well as gluten free. They can I guess also accommodate low-fat diets, but you need to let them know in advance. I just asked for no potatoes on my meals in the main dining room, and they brought me extra veggies instead. :)
The menus allowed my diet for the most part, and I have the three days that we ate in the main dining room's menus below. I can go into what I chose if you like, but I won't for now (leave me a comment, and I'll tell you my choices).
The last menu shown, the paper menu, was our meal option for the private island... we reserved a beach bed, and therefore got a different lunch option than the other cruisers. Honestly, if you cruise with Royal, and go to either Labadee or CocoCay, totally spring for the beach bed... but I digress. The buffet was what we did for breakfast every morning, and for three of our four lunches, the other being on the island. The buffet wasn't bad overall, but the lunch choices were very carb heavy (rice, potatoes) for sides. The last night we were on the ship, we went to the buffet for dinner since we had several activities we wanted to do that night, and the hour and a half dinner service wouldn't allow us to get everything done we wanted to do. The dinner selection wasn't bad, and they had the grilled veggies that I came to love in the dining room, so, I was a happy camper. :D
Every single meal, RC provided at least one Sugar Free dessert option, be it in the main dining room or the buffet. The main dining room had Sugar Free ice cream every night, and the buffet varied. The night we went for dinner, they had an amazing chocolate mousse that was SF. For lunch, they had some cakes (which, due to my carb restrictions I couldn't do), or some mousses our cheesecakes. I did try a couple of those, of course not eating the bottom part of the cheesecake. They also had a great selection of fresh fruit at every meal that gave me options, if I couldn't do any of the other items.
The buffet for breakfast was pretty standard fare; eggs, bacon, sausage, pancakes, waffles, an omelet station, fresh fruit, yogurt, sausage gravy and biscuits, cereal. But, the cool thing about breakfast? They had chicken sausages every morning. I usually got some scrambled eggs (or one morning I did an omelet), chicken sausages, and some fresh carved ham, and fresh fruit.
Drink options on board weren't bad either. They had Coke freestyle machines, and they had Minute Maid Light, which I added Raspberry flavoring to. It was tasty. :)
We were able to keep fairly active, climbing up a flight or two of stairs here and there instead of taking the elevator, and just walking a lot period. When we were in Nassau, we ended up climbing the Queen's Staircase roughly twice (we climbed a different way the first time, but the same height), which is 64 narrow stairs, but super cool to see. :)
I did eat slightly more on the cruise than I do at home, and because of that, I was really worried about weight gain. But, honestly, I didn't gain almost anything... 0.3#, which could be water weight from traveling. So, cruising while on a diet is totally doable. One recommendation that I would have, if you cruise with RC is to contact them at least 90 days in advance, and they can further accommodate any special dietary requirements that you may have. :)
And now, a recipe that I made up (with the help of my mother-in-law), inspired by the amazing SF Chocolate Mousse I had while onboard our beautiful ship. :)
Protein Chocolate "Mousse"/Dip
-1 package SF Cool Whip
-1 Scoop Vanilla Protein Powder
-1 package SF Chocolate pudding
-Mix well, and enjoy with a spoon, or use to dip fresh fruit. :)
It may not look super pretty, and the texture comes out slightly grainy (EDIT: I figured out the grainy thing... if you let the Cool Whip thaw all the way, you get a REAL mousse texture), but it tastes amazing. :D
That's all for me for now... sorry for such a long post. :/
~♥~
Lady D
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