Fiona, this is awesome. Well done, you!!
Eating out, eating at someone else's house and traveling are the most challenging things, and you are doing really well with eating out.

I had the same experience, years ago, of having a couple of bites of dessert and finding that it tasted way too sweet and wasn't something I particularly wanted to eat. For me, it was carrot cake. I took a couple of bites and I couldn't taste the carrots, just sugar. I went home and made a carrot cake that was sweetened with banana and tasted like carrot and it was so much better! Finding out that regular desserts tasted way too sweet to me was a really good thing because I stopped wanting them. Now I look at them and think, oh, that is pretty, I would have liked that in the past, but I know I wouldn't like it now.

I have loved watching your progress through the steps.
Allison

: Hi everyone
: I feel that RR has given me the
: confidence to make the food
: choices that I need to make, and
: to understand why I am making
: them. In the past couple of weeks
: I’ve had 3 meals out. The first
: one I checked out the menu
: beforehand inspired by mosaic, and
: made good choices. The second one
: I ordered all three courses in
: advance as we had to do. When my
: desert came I took a couple of
: mouthfuls and left the rest. It
: was too sweet for me now. In the
: past I always ate the whole thing.
: One person gave me some funny
: looks but so what. Next time I
: might just order starter and main
: (there was no cheese, or option to
: have another starter instead). And
: tonight I suggested somewhere that
: I knew would work well for me and
: made good choices, including a
: side dish as my starter, they were
: surprised but obliged, and a fresh
: mint tea instead of desert. And I
: am feeling better for it, and
: feeling as though I am taking care
: of myself.
: Fiona