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Re: A Day in the Life Shopping with a Woman with PCOS

From: rosie (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sun, 21 May 2000 07:59:36 -0500 (CDT)


something new to try...Jicama(HEE-kah-muh) Its a product of Mexico. You can find it at the grocery store near the eggplant. It has a slightly sweet taste. Peel and eat raw, with dips, or use in stir-frys. serving size:3/4 cup,35cal, fat calories 0, total fat-0, total carbs-7g. >
>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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