When I wrote the post about the Diet Guidelines, and wrote some things about pizza and Chinese food, I had no idea that I would be facing those challenges just a couple of days later.
On Friday my husband and I had plans to get together with my wonderful next-door neighbors, whom we will call Fred and Ethel, for a pizza night. I had been trying to figure out what I would do, since I’m not really allowing myself to have pizza because of the awful reaction I had to it last Monday. At the same time, I didn’t want to be “that” girl that has to have the salad while everybody else has delicious pizza.
Enrique suggested I got the whole-wheat crust, but Stash’s Pizza doesn’t have whole-wheat crust! (I found out in advance) So I just decided to wing it and figure it out when we got there. Turns out that Fred and Ethel sometimes have pizza without cheese. I figured it was worth a try, as long as we coupled it with a salad 😉
It was AMAZING. The pizza was DELICIOUS. I had to hold back from getting a third slice. The best part is that I did not feel anxious afterwards! So I guess we figured out the anxiety-causing ingredient in pizza: fatty fatty fatty CHEESE, and EXCESS. Stopping at 2 slices was the perfect call.
As for Chinese food, it sort of caught me by surprise. I went to my in-laws for dinner to celebrate my husband’s sister’s birthday, and they brought in LOADS of Chinese food. So, what to do?
I stuck with some maki rolls, pulled the fried skin off of ONE chicken finger, had a taste of the crunchy beef, had a little bit of white rice (one bite) and had a lot of broccoli! One thing that I shouldn’t have had so much of are these cut-outs of Pillsbury doughboy crescent rolls with caramelized onion on them (my mother in law, whom we’ll call Marie, is an AMAZING cook). I had 3 of those (each one was bite-size), and I worried I’d get nervous/anxious after I had them.
It’s been a few hours and I’m still not nervous/anxious at all! This is great!
And so I survived my first Chinese food and pizza challenge. I hope you are all doing well!
ina
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