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I'm glad this Heather's approach has been so helpful for you. It was certainly a life-saver for me.

I have to say I don't understand why someone else talking about being able to eat a trigger food would be helpful. I figure once you're stable, if you're lucky enough to be able to eat pizza you shouldn't question your luck - just be grateful.

Having said that, however, if you have a question that you need to ask and you have to admit you eat pizza in order to ask your question, then please at least give a nod to the fact that this is supposed to be a support Board for the EFI Diet. Say, "I know dairy is a trigger food and not allowed on the EFI Diet. However, now that I'm stable I find I'm lucky enough to be able to eat pizza without suffering. I still can't eat ice cream however. Any ideas why this might be?" That tells newbies that eating pizza is *not* SOP around here. It also tells people like me that you understand the Diet principles and you're stable so I won't post something like, "Pizza?! Are you crazy?!" (Note to everyone who is not stable: There is no way to say with a straight face, "I'm not stable but pizza doesn't bother me.")

Again, there's a big difference between saying you eat a trigger food in order to ask a question and saying you eat a trigger food in order to reassure someone who's trying to get stable that she can just ignore those pesky little food lists - it's fine for her to eat whatever her little heart desires.

As for disregarding "the posts that ... are really off base", I see two problems with that. First, while it works for you because you understand the Diet well enough to get stable, it can be awfully hard for a new poster to figure out which posts are really off base. Second, if everyone disregards posts that are really off base the person who is posting is not getting any help figuring out what to do to feel better.

BTW, I see that you haven't posted in over three years. Welcome back.

BTW - again - I couldn't find the post from the other person who could eat pizza but not ice cream. Could you point me to it? Thanks.

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[Research tells us fourteen out of any ten individuals likes chocolate. - Sandra Boynton]

Edited by Sand (04/25/08 10:05 AM)

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