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