No low carb diet. EVER. No way, no how. I love bread too much. And potatoes. And pasta. And Dr Pepper. Take away carbs, you take away all the pleasure of eating, AFAIC.

This is me.

I become a total hellbitch if I go too long without eating. It gets much worse if I go without a meal around the same time I have PMS. Speaking of which, I am starting to feel really shaky. I don't know if it is the meds or that I haven't had anything but coffee yet today.

Cashmere, I'm apt to have a one piece of bread sandwich, myself, even when I'm eating the healthier breads.

I really need to get some food with some food in it, back in this house.

Congrats, Stephanie!

What is it about physiology that makes this sugar/mood drop thing happen?

I get spacey, a bit cranky, and then it progresses to a lot spacey and losing words.

I fell off the low-carb wagon while we were in Vienna in October, and haven't quite managed to get back on it. I know I need to, because eating more veggies, fruit, and protein makes me *feel* better, plus shrinks my waistline pretty fast. I'm going to try and go back to having a small handful of mixed nuts when the overwhelming craving for crunchysalty food hits.

Portion control is my biggest battle. I suffer from portion creep. It keeps getting slightly bigger until I realize I've gone over the edge and getting back down is difficult.

Yep, I have that issue, too. It's the only reason I contemplate trying WW. Unfortunately, I've been assured by a couple of people I know that WW will drive me batshit crazy.

JILLI! I had a dream this morning that you were pregnant and woke up thinking, "When Pete hears that, he's gonna say, 'Not bloody likely!' " and then be mad at me.

beathen, I understand, and I wasn't even there so I have no firsthand knowledge of what the place was like, but I wouldn't have been allowed to seat people in an unopened section either. It's not really up to the hostess. She's at the bottom of the totem pole.

It's possible I'm taking this far too personally, however, having been yelled at myself- once by some guys who wanted to sit by the bar. I said smoking or non- they said by the bar- I said "So smoking?" they said yes, and then wanted their meals comped, because they were sat in the smoking section by the bar.

JILLI! I had a dream this morning that you were pregnant and woke up thinking, "When Pete hears that, he's gonna say, 'Not bloody likely!' " and then be mad at me.

Gaaaaah! No! No babies for me!

Possible TMI: Besides, Steps Have Been Taken, ensuring no babies from Pete. Aaaaaand since Pete is the only person I have sex with, and plan on having sex with, no babies. Thank goodness.)

We just wanted to sit at them - and said we realized that the the tables weren't set, but we were more than willing to forgive this lack if they would let us sit.

Yeah, it was bizarre. The restaurant was *empty* (it was pretty late for lunch), and the only thing keeping us from being seated was that the place settings were missing menus. The hostess told us this. We said we didn't care and were willing to wait, and she *still* wouldn't seat us until we said, look, one of us is a diabetic, and one of us has MS. We don't care that there are no menus, but we are TIRED.

I was this close to pulling out my "Look, I've worked in food service, and you're being unreasonable" card, only Tep was doing fine on her own.

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but I wouldn't have been allowed to seat people in an unopened section either.

No no, the section was open. She literally wanted to keep us standing while they carefully placed menus at each place setting.]

Congrats, Stephanie!!!!

Portion control is my biggest battle.

This is me. Completely. What? An entire bowl of cereal isn't one serving, it's really 3-4?? Hurts me, it does.

Many congratulations, Stephanie!

Therapist is gone. The babies (probably Kara) stole one of her toys so she spent a good 15 minutes poking about, as were we all--but I was hoping to keep her to the living room since I hadn't cleaned anything else--trying to find it. No luck. Some days, a smacking is too good for them.

Paul turns into crankyman if he hasn't eaten. I've been known to forget to eat until it's almost supper time because I'm good at not noticing hunger. We both need to re-learn how to eat right, but my, it's hard when you've no real time.