Oh, your notes always make me smile. :) I'm so grateful for you on this board, not only because you are unfailingly kind and encouraging, but because having another "savoury" person here keeps me from drifting too far into "oh, jelly beans don't do a thing for me, I'm fine." And of course reading that you can pack up pasta salad for your husband without batting an eye (when you're well rested and fortified with your own yummy faves) ... wow ... that's like a super power to me!

Re the pull of the savoury right now ... I'm just starting Step Two, so I'm not trying to resist pulls, really, but I'm actually doing fine at home with the brown rice pasta -- though I do go through periodic bouts of "seeing" whether I can eat white pasta ... when I know perfectly well that I can eat it once in a while and be okay, but more than that and suddenly it's the *only* thing I want to eat, and in vast quantities -- but I was in a Thai restaurant a few weeks ago and got something with white rice, and found myself really gobbling it, to the point where I suddenly sort of came to and wondered if the other people at the table had noticed ... and realized that even so, it was taking a tremendous effort to slow down (and, to your comment about the rugby tackling, I was pretty sure that I would have stuck a fork into anyone who suggested that I share. I enlisted a good friend to go back with me soon so I can order the same dish with brown rice, and see whether that frantic shoveling thing kicks in again or not...

Pam