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So, I went to my Holy City of Pre-Atkins eating, Maggianos! I love this place more than my children and I would sell a Kidney for some of the cheesecake. It was for my friends 30 birthday and I was so close to cancelling on him, because I was not sure that I could handle the temptation. To give myself a fighting chance, I ate my dinner before going and decided I would just eat a salad when I got there. The whoel time, I was toying with the idea of having one piece of cheesecake since I had not cheated for over two months.
Well, the wait for a table was unbelievable and by the time we sat down, I was starving. Thinking quickly, I told my firends that I was diagnosed with a Gluten allergy and that I could not eat "Family Style" as is customary at Maggianos. When I told the waiter this, he said that there rules state that if it is a table of eight or more that you have to eat Family Style. So I summoned the power of "The Atkins Diet Bulletin Board Members" and I told him what I thought of his rule! He said that he would have to get the managers approval for me to order off of the A La Carte menu. That is when my football buddies started in on me, but the more they pushed me the more dug in I got......I am a stubborn SOB.
So finally, the manager returned and approved my extremely "inconveniant" order. I ordered a baked chicken dinner and watched them gorge on carbs. Then my Kryptonite arrived.....The cheescake. To torment me, they all made the most dramatic gestures and eating sounds as they ate it in front of me. I could not have cared any less at that point, because I was dug in!
At the end of the dinner, I watched as they all complained about how stuffed they were and how they felt like they were going to throw up. Most of them were wiping sweat off their brows and two started to say they had indigestion. One of my buddies was almost asleep at the table by the time we checked out. I comfortbale sat their feeling great!
Get prepared, the battle will find you at some point! Keep up the good fight Soldiers!
Well, the wait for a table was unbelievable and by the time we sat down, I was starving. Thinking quickly, I told my firends that I was diagnosed with a Gluten allergy and that I could not eat "Family Style" as is customary at Maggianos. When I told the waiter this, he said that there rules state that if it is a table of eight or more that you have to eat Family Style. So I summoned the power of "The Atkins Diet Bulletin Board Members" and I told him what I thought of his rule! He said that he would have to get the managers approval for me to order off of the A La Carte menu. That is when my football buddies started in on me, but the more they pushed me the more dug in I got......I am a stubborn SOB.
So finally, the manager returned and approved my extremely "inconveniant" order. I ordered a baked chicken dinner and watched them gorge on carbs. Then my Kryptonite arrived.....The cheescake. To torment me, they all made the most dramatic gestures and eating sounds as they ate it in front of me. I could not have cared any less at that point, because I was dug in!
At the end of the dinner, I watched as they all complained about how stuffed they were and how they felt like they were going to throw up. Most of them were wiping sweat off their brows and two started to say they had indigestion. One of my buddies was almost asleep at the table by the time we checked out. I comfortbale sat their feeling great!
Get prepared, the battle will find you at some point! Keep up the good fight Soldiers!
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