Comments on: Combo Stews

By: jacobs100

jacobs100 — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 21:23:59 +0000

In a message dated 5/27/2003 9:29:09 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
exlibris@… writes:
<< Most places will substitute rice for potatoes - or even another vegetable.
Outback restraurants used to substitute a sweet potato for the potatoes in
their steak dishes. It’s been so long that I don’t now if they still do or not.

By: Brenda Retta

Brenda Retta — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 15:02:23 +0000

Don had some very good suggestions about choosing the right place to eat. I
have found that you can even eat at an Italian restaurant and survive.
Most places will substitute rice for potatoes - or even another vegetable.
Order a plain steak or grilled chicken, nothing fancy.
Have your friends help you out by putting the bread on their side of the table.
If you end up at pasta place, order one of the meat dishes - chicken or veal,
ask for vegetables instead of pasta. Eat lots of salad.
As for traveling by car - plane, I always have beef jerky on hand, along with
celery and carrots, rice crackers and a homemade trail mix.
Enjoy your trip - I just came back from a two week jaunt visiting family on the
east coast. Depending on where you are traveling, good places to eat are Thai
and Japanese restaurants. They seem to have the fewest avoids.
Breakfast out is actually pretty easy, steak and eggs - give the toast to
someone else.
Hope this helps.

Kate in sunny So. CA
Okay, next question, how do you do this and travel? Thanks from a grateful
newbie,
Lisa

By: jacobs100

jacobs100 — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 04:13:26 +0000

In a message dated 5/27/2003 4:35:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
randlco@… writes:
<< Okay, next question, how do you do this and travel?
Boy, is that a tough question. You have to decide. You know what you can
and can’t eat (ie Pizza is not very filling when you scrape it off of the bread
dough). You just have to pick through and leave the avoids or just say the
hell with it and pig out. I just went to a house warming party recently and did
fine until I bit into a chocolate chip chocolate cookie. Hey, I had two,
they were small. Just pick back up where you left off. I minimize the avoids
but don’t beat myself up if I cheat. After all, you have to eat and you will
have eaten fewer avoids than before.

By: Tracy Camacho

Tracy Camacho — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 20:24:51 +0000

Dear fellow listers:
I want to thank you so much for the information and encouragement you
bestowed upon this newbie. I’ve been on the diet now for about 2
months. The difference in my energy level and well-being is amazing!
The initial changes were scary for me and those of you who wrote to
encourage me were very much appreciated. One person, male, I believe
but I don’t remember the name, said that I would feel better than I had
ever felt. I so needed to hear that and he was right! Thanks again.
Okay, next question, how do you do this and travel? I have a weekend
trip coming up next month and am wondering how I’m going to pull this
off without my EZ bread, smoothies for breakfast without any dairy, and
lots of protein. Thoughts and suggestions are very welcome. BTW, this
is a trip to a wedding, staying in a hotel with friends and the
temptations of wedding cakes. What say you? (Besides take Deflect and
hope for the best?)

Thanks from a grateful newbie,
Lisa