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Did the giant Easter buffet brunch today. I wanted to be able to sample some desserts, so I stuck to proteins with no sauces or dairy of any kind for my mains -- brisket and smoked fish, with some green salad. The idea is that the IBS reaction is cumulative, so if you're going to deliberately eat something not good for you, you don't want to be eating other things not good for you. So then I ate a biscuit about the size of a quarter (seriously), and a few bites of several dessert pastries. Don't know if I will get away with this or not. We'll see tomorrow -- as it's generally 24 hours after I've eaten something FODMAP "illegal" before I get sick. Interestingly, I found that the pastries didn't really taste that great to me. My friends said that the desserts weren't up to par at the restaurant we chose, but I think part of it is that after nearly 18 mos of not eating any wheat-based or cream-based desserts, they just don't taste very good to me. A couple weeks ago when I was having a horrible computer problem day, I gobbled down a couple of butter cookies at Whole Foods, and they didn't taste very good to me either. So probably next time around I'll just have some berries and melon and forget the pastries. I feel kind of sad. I used to really love a piece of chocolate cake with coffee ice cream. Now, I don't think I'll ever experience that kind of enjoyment of something really tasty again. (On the other hand, I looked really good in my size 12 pants and top from Chico, so that's some compensation.)
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