Re: Re: suggestions to stop binge eating

[Guest guest]

>

> you have to learn by heart what you can and can't have. You also

> have to learn how to tell a waiter or waitress what you can and

> can't have, and how to be strong enough to send the food back if

> they don't make it correctly. (The first time it happened to me, I

> wasn't strong enough. I ate the illegals, and had blow-out diarrhea

> as a result.)

Yeah, I find this very hard. I've hardly eaten out in the last 9

months, but

on one occasion I did, I also had a horrible reaction to the food,

even though

the first time I ate there I had been fine. I wondered afterwards -

it wasn't

noticeable while I was eating it - if they had marinated

the salmon in something sweet before preparing it. I thought I had been

clear but realized in retrospect I stressed flour above sugar, etc.

The next time, a different restaurant, I was clear to the waiter, but

he obviously was not clear

enough with the kitchen staff, so my salmon and steamed green veggies

came covered

with the sauce I had requested they leave off. I was torn - I was

with the family

party of a friend and her daughter visiting NYC and staying with me -

and didn't

want to make an issue of it since it wasn't my party, etc,

- not to mention sending the food back always ruins the

rhythm of the meal. So I didn't send it back. Fortunately it didn't

have a noticeable

effect. But I had some probiotics when I got home and later on,

before bed, I had

some drops of oreganol in water to squelch those excitable evil

bacteria.

(The sauce was delicious, but I suspect it had some flour in it. Oh

well.

I tried eating around it.)

Dealing with restaurants, it's a work in progress.

You're always revising how to deal with it based on your experience

at the prior restaurant.

Mara