15 - Cheese

Finally! Something I'm use to seeing—the diet plan with all the gram allotments all measured out. I know it sounds a little weird, but I like those little listings. Makes me feel like I'm in control of what I'm eating. (Yeah, I know I'm in control the other times too, but numbers just feel more real to me than trying to eyeball the whole thing.) I will say, though, that I wasn't at all expecting this:


Where's the eggs? During and after the PCP I was so use to eating egg whites (two for breakfast, one for morning snack, two for lunch, and one for afternoon snack) that the sudden lack of them took me by surprise. In it's place was cheese. Now I don't mind cheese. I absolutely love cheese. I was just use to egg.

For those of you who don't know, I'm a vegetarian. I guess under a technical clarification, I'm a lacto-ovo vegetarain. That means I eat dairy products (lacto) and eggs (ovo). So, while most people on the PCP and KFB have a gram allotment for their favorite protein source, I get cheese and eggs. I love cheese and eggs, so it don't bother me. During my time on Peak Condition beans, tofu, tempeh, seitan, and most of those meat substitutes were verboten, so eggs and I became great friends. On KFB, I can visit them once in a great while but they're not a protein—they are a carb. That's cool too.

So now, it's like that favorite old hymn: "What a friend we have in cheeses!" We'll see how long we'll get to be friends. Certainly hope I don't grow a tail and start squeeking.