Re: A Day in the Life Shopping with a Woman with PCOS
From: A (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu, 11 May 2000 18:06:24 -0400
I couldn't agree more Elle!!! I get the same feeling everytime I do my
shopping!! Must say, you gave me quite a chuckle!!!
Thanks! Alexis
"Nethermind (Elle)" wrote:
> Does this sound familar?
>
> Okay, I got the grocery list. Let me see... spinach, bottled water,
> meat, more water, lettuce...how many types of lettuce can I eat and
> think that it's a different food? Three? Let's travel down to the weird
> veggie section; perhaps there is a no carb vegetable I have never seen!
> Maybe even one that tastes like chocolate... I would settle for one
> that tasted like bread. Nope. I decide to get the eggplant and try to
> magic them into potato chips when I get home. Wonder about how many
> more odd veggie nights my husband will quietly sit through before he
> cries out for pizza. More bottled water, some tuna, pickles, green
> beans.... stare longingly at corn, lumpy potatoes, and peas. Wonder
> about my forbidden vegetable love.
>
> Let's go down the healthfood section. Leave the healthfood section.
> Down the meat aisle, getting funny stares from people as I pile eight
> packages of family sized lean steaks in my cart. Go to the coffee aisle
> to smell the coffee. Leave the coffee aisle. Go to the vitamin aisle:
> hempseed, flaxseed, chromium, glutamine, insotol, biotin, omega 3 acid,
> multivitamin, etc etc etc etc.... $500 dollars later, I wonder if any
> of this stuff will get me high. Not that I want to get high...
>
> Down the candy aisle (I'm just looking!).
> Looking at my cart as I check out, I wonder if anyone can see that I am
> on a very specific diet, checkout girl looks at me through the corner of
> her eye, saying to herself, 'This is why this chick isn't losing
> weight.. she needs a high carb, low fat diet in a big way!' I asky
> myself,'Is this a grocery trip or the beginning of a football team
> bar-b-q?'
>
> ________
>
> Thanks for reading my late night post grocery thoughts.
> Just thought I would share that with you ladies. I feel like my recent
> trips to the grocery store are nothing short of surreal. When did this
> happen, I ask myself. I am a Protein citizen lost in Carb world. Ack!
>
> -Elle
>
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