The stupidest thing I put in my mouth...

Susan, I remember you talking about the candy corn incident --     
(I don't really like candy corn but hearing you talk about it steered me away from ever trying it!)

In all honesty --  only with minor expisodes at all,  I don't think I've ever dumped.  I'm one of those odd ball cases that I've been able eat sugar and fat in limited quanities and no issues.  The one thing occassionaly happens when I eat something milk-based it will sit funny on my stomach.  And the closest incident I've had come to what I would define as "dumping" would be just out from my puree stage I ate a little bit of quiche thinking the egg part would be good for me -- it was too rich and it went right through me.  When I do too many carbs I sometimes get sleepy but that's about it. 

It actually kind of scares me that I don't seem to have dietary restrictions too much because that makes it all about displine for me.  It's both a good and bad thing.  (For the record - I don't push the bounderies of what I can and can't eat too much - I am still responsible to make good choices). 

Dear Marilyn, I hope that all of our confessions has helped you see that we are all some pretty normal people...  you, and me, and all of the rest of us...  it took a lot of guts for some to publicly proclaim that they have messed up...Kinda like how the preacher gave the altar call for salvation, and a person gets up out of their seat and walks to the front of the entire congregation, and basically proclaims just by that one act:  I'M A SINNER!  (Ok, gotta remember I come from a religious background, so that's why my analogy has to do with church... best and first thing that came to my mind!)

Who wants to admit their heart is blackened with sin?  None of us!  The only reason we do it is because we feel so heavy under conviction that we break under the pressure!  But just as we get up from the altar and walk away with the most cleanest feeling in the whole world...  (salvation is a good thing!) so our confession of our wls struggles and failures shows us others have the same problems, and we don't have to be ashamed and alone in our struggle... and it relieves a huge weight from our shoulders.

Besides, I have found that if I keep secrets, I hold that messup over my own head, kind of like blackmail.  The best thing for me to do is confess it and go on...  So I guess my reflection overall is saying thank you to everyone who posted...

You know I think it's a wonderful thing to keep each other on track but I hope we never get to the point that we freak out about messing up.  Every choice is a brand new moment. 

I like your statement "Every choice is a brand new moment..."  and it sounds just as perfect turned backwards also!  "Every moment is a brand new choice..."  

I got the hankerin' for some ice cream a few weeks ago. Man, I love ice cream. Well, my wife bought me some fat-free, sugar-free ice cream at Publix. About 7:30 that night, I decided that a little sugar-free ice cream would hit the spot. So,  I checked the nutrition panel on the carton and sure enuff, it said 0 sugar. So, I dished myself out about 1 cup of it.  About 10 minutes after I finished it, I got that awful feeling - you know, the one where you know you've screwed up and are fixin' to pay the price - that "gut churning, heart racing, head poundin', what the crap have I done?" feelin'.  I had to go to bed I felt so dang bad. Next morning, I went straight to the fridge, opened the freezer and read the nutrition panel again. It read: Sugar - 0  What the heck?? So I read the fine print below the nutrition panel.  That's where they had hidden the Sugar Alcohol content.  It read: Sugar Alcohols - 19 g per 1/2 cup!!  HOLY CRAP!! I had eaten 38 grams of Sugar Alcohols in just one cup of "SUGAR FREE" ice cream!  No wonder I dumped!! 

Well, needless to say, I REALLY check the nutrition panels AND the fine print closely on everything now!  

Lesson learned - BEWARE of SUGAR ALCOHOLS!!

Bob, as I was reading your post, it left me wondering cause if it said zero sugar??  And then, those 2 special, delishus words...  SUGAR ALCOHOL!  Oh my GARSH!  I bet you were cramped up and tied up like a pretzel!!  At first I thought maybe it was the amount, one cup...  if perhaps you were lactose intolerant, that would have been enough to get things all worked up inside...  Or, maybe that it was the flavor, chocolate... by any chance??  Chocolate "sugar free" stuff hurts my stomach really bad for some reason.  Once, 2 tblsp of Breyers Carb Smart Chocolate ice cream made me trying to hurl just to feel better...  The vanilla didn't do it to me but the chocolate, oh lord!

The worst thing that ever made me sick on sugar alcohols was a Supreme Protein bar...  I ate half of it one evening, and the next morning I ate the other half...  it was the first time I ever had them and I was just so excited to find a protein bar that tasted like heaven.  I had to call in to work sick that day.