Summer travel survival guide: blood sugar tips for flights, road trips, and BBQs

Diabetes Digital Podcast by Food Heaven

Wendy Lopez, Jessica Jones

Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Summer travel can be fun but it can also throw off your usual routines, especially when it comes to blood sugar. In this episode, we’re sharing our go-to tips for navigating travel in a way that supports your blood sugar without adding more stress. We’ll talk about how to navigate long periods of sitting, skipped meals, heat, and travel-related stress and tips for small shifts that can make a difference.

You’ll hear about our favorite on-the-go snacks that are not only delicious but also blood sugar-friendly. We’re also diving into practical ways to prep for the unexpected like delayed meals, high temps, or last-minute plans and social events, and BBQs without guilt. Plus, we’ll share simple routines to help you feel supported, even when your schedule is all over the place. If you’re navigating blood sugar this summer and want to feel more at ease with it all, this one’s for you.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to another episode of the Diabetes Digital Podcast. We are so excited to have you. And the summertime is here. And what we've noticed on the patient side is that summertime usually things slow down because a lot of people are going out of town, us included. Just what travel plans do you have this summer?
0:23.2	Well, we're going to Italy together. Yeah, we are. Yeah, and we're so excited about that. Yeah,
0:30.2	I haven't been to Italy since 2013 a while ago. And then when I went, I went by myself. So it's
0:37.3	going to be so fun to go
0:38.9	with a group, it's going to be both us and our husbands, and then we're going to ditch them and
0:44.4	go on a girls' trip. So it's going to be really exciting. Yay. Do you have any other trips,
0:49.8	or is it, I mean, I know this is like a big one, but that's my main one. Less is more.
0:55.2	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But yeah, me and my friends here, we're going on a summer camp. I think I mentioned that. So we're going to be doing an adult summer camp in August. It's going to be, I's going to say upstate California. It's going to be in Northern California.
1:12.8	And that should be a hoot and a holler. So I'll keep you posted. Yeah, what about you?
1:18.8	Yeah, the Europe trip is going to be my main one as well because I'm going to be doing a few other destinations within Europe before we meet.
1:26.1	I'm also going to Dominican Republic, which I usually
1:28.4	go to in the summertime. I'm going to be heading out there soon. But yeah, I think that that's
1:34.2	about it. That feels pretty full. And one thing that I've noticed when I travel, especially for
1:38.8	longer periods of time, is that my eating habits get thrown off. Just like the time that I start eating in the day, the options that are available,
1:48.6	especially depending on where I'm going.
1:51.0	And so we wanted to do this episode because we know a lot of you are doing summer travel,
1:55.4	and that can throw your whole routine off, especially if you have diabetes,
2:00.3	if you have pre-diabetes and you've been
2:02.7	trying to make some changes in your eating habits, it could be stressful.
2:07.2	Like we've had so many patients who are like, we need a session just dedicated to like preparing
2:12.2	for this trip that I have coming up.
2:14.3	So we wanted to go over some simple, flexible strategies to help you care for yourself
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