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My doc said it is totally legal to pull the toppings off a slice of pizza and eat them. When I mentioned the sugar added to pizza sauces, she said "don't worry about" amounts like that. She said the same thing about dark chocolate: if it's over whatever-percentage the handout said (70, I think), I can eat it, whether it's 2g/serving or 12. And I can have "small amounts" of non-recommended foods: a bite or two of ice cream, a small piece carved off a bagel. "It's all about balance" was the way she put it. "Just make sure you have a lot of vegetables too."
This seems to me to be a very silly way to run a diet, but I'm not going to gripe if it gets me pizza toppings and more dark chocolate. This whole thing wasn't my idea anyway. I'm happy to pretend and hand-wave and ignore.
As for experimenting with stuff, I'm going to do a few key things first.
1) Red wine (white is supposedly worse than red, and beer is worse than either)
2) Some hearty serious whole-grain bread, best I can find without immense quantities of white flour *and* without sugar added to it
3) if I pass the alcohol test, FONDUE (held together with starch, but it's *mostly* cheese and white wine, and *most* of the alcohol should have boiled off)
I bet for a good sense of whether these are or are not problems, I'll need to space them out a good bit, possibly repeating once or twice just to make sure I'm not merely having an unusually good or bad day. Or maybe I'll need to have a significant quantity of just one thing to make sure I'd notice a problem. But in a couple of weeks I could imagine knowing whether I can have fondue.
It's quite possible I'll feel fine after any of them. After all, I felt fine before, when a glass of red wine and some heavily buttered popcorn were a perfectly acceptable dinner. I'll send my doc e-mail with the results if I have no problem, and see what she says from there. Ha; there; I promised I'd do that. I know darn well if I didn't think that up *first* I'd be very tempted to just go wild after a few small successes.
This seems to me to be a very silly way to run a diet, but I'm not going to gripe if it gets me pizza toppings and more dark chocolate. This whole thing wasn't my idea anyway. I'm happy to pretend and hand-wave and ignore.
As for experimenting with stuff, I'm going to do a few key things first.
1) Red wine (white is supposedly worse than red, and beer is worse than either)
2) Some hearty serious whole-grain bread, best I can find without immense quantities of white flour *and* without sugar added to it
3) if I pass the alcohol test, FONDUE (held together with starch, but it's *mostly* cheese and white wine, and *most* of the alcohol should have boiled off)
I bet for a good sense of whether these are or are not problems, I'll need to space them out a good bit, possibly repeating once or twice just to make sure I'm not merely having an unusually good or bad day. Or maybe I'll need to have a significant quantity of just one thing to make sure I'd notice a problem. But in a couple of weeks I could imagine knowing whether I can have fondue.
It's quite possible I'll feel fine after any of them. After all, I felt fine before, when a glass of red wine and some heavily buttered popcorn were a perfectly acceptable dinner. I'll send my doc e-mail with the results if I have no problem, and see what she says from there. Ha; there; I promised I'd do that. I know darn well if I didn't think that up *first* I'd be very tempted to just go wild after a few small successes.
