Glad to hear that you worked out the Chinese food challenge. I have no doubt that the low feelings were from the cake and white bread, if you ate a lot more of them than you usually do. On step 3, one of the things we work on is steady - steady sugar to avoid those big highs and lows.

I remember the day that I realized that sugar was associated with my depression. I was doing the Zone diet and hadn't had sugar in three weeks. Then I went to a party at a friend's house and ate the things I normally ate at parties. Cake, cookies, champagne etc. A few hours later I had a headache, was really tired and cranky, and spent the evening yelling at my pets. Then I was hung over the next day and then came the horrible moods and depression.

These are all great learning experiences.
Allison

: Recently I posted that I’d struggled
: with Chinese takeaway food. I got
: great replies and suggestions
: here. So on Saturday night I asked
: for tofu with soy sauce, ginger,
: garlic and chilli, no sugar or
: MSG. It took a while for this to
: be processed, but they cooked it
: and it was great! Coming here gave
: me the confidence to order what I
: wanted that wasn’t on the menu
:

: Then on Sunday and Monday it was two
: birthdays. I ate a lot of white
: bread and cake. And on Tuesday
: afternoon/evening I started to
: feel really low, quite sad and
: negative about things and I had a
: long cry. I really wonder if it
: was linked to the white food and
: sugar.

: Thanks for reading

: Fiona