ouch!
OK - so last night I paid the price for my "portion distortion" at dinnertime. I had used maltitol as the sweetener in most of the items that called for it, and it tells you on the label that excessive consumption may have a laxative effect. In further reading up on it, it also tells you that it causes gas.
Let me tell you - I had gas pain comparable to that after surgery! As well as diarrhea. And I didn't feel that I had done all that badly - except that I knew my portions were off and I was "picking" (particularly at the SF cashew brittle, which is basically concentrated maltitol). Learned my lesson well, last night! But I'm glad - in the absence of dumping, it's stuff like this that will help keep me honest.
Sigh. Why can't my brain be more normal and not an addict brain?
Karen
Let me tell you - I had gas pain comparable to that after surgery! As well as diarrhea. And I didn't feel that I had done all that badly - except that I knew my portions were off and I was "picking" (particularly at the SF cashew brittle, which is basically concentrated maltitol). Learned my lesson well, last night! But I'm glad - in the absence of dumping, it's stuff like this that will help keep me honest.
Sigh. Why can't my brain be more normal and not an addict brain?
Karen
I was like that after Liz's house...not to that extreme, but it was bad enough!
Thanks for sharing - we all need gentle reminders that even "WLS friendly food" is not necessarily food we should be eating most of the time.
Pam
Thanks for sharing - we all need gentle reminders that even "WLS friendly food" is not necessarily food we should be eating most of the time.
Pam
Instead of complaining that the rosebush has thorns, be happy that the thorn bush has roses. 
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