Alec with first pasta at Aroma Osteria, Wappinger Falls, NYAfter just under nine months of restricting my diet according to the prescriptions of The Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD) I'm stepping back into the world of polysacharides - grains, sugars, a wider selection of dairy, potatoes and I can stop driving waitresses and waiters all over the city crazy with my special requests. I'll never eat the same way I did in the past. My eyes have been opened to the insane amount of sugar packed into so much of the packaged food offered to us on a regular basis. Avoiding that shouldn't be too hard. I've learned so much about alternative snacks to keep around and rediscovered the beauty of fruits and veggies as a constant source of sustenance that I'm not worried about falling back into the trap of junk snacking. I'll still have to learn to control myself around pizza and chocolate.