good luck with your follow up, karoliinareddish. i hope all goes well .

googley - yes, i think grieving is a common reaction. i am currently on some meds which don't allow me to eat very much (am pretty limited to just plain meat and boiled veggies, yuck). sometimes i still get sad that i am missing out on all these great foods. one thing that really helped me though was that i told all my friends, and i set a date from when i was going to go on the restricted diet. so in the lead up to that day, they all educated themselves on my new diet, and we threw around all the great things i would be missing out on. and on the day before, we had a big party where we went and gorged on everything i could no longer eat. it was a lot of fun (we ate for hours) and i'm so glad i did it. i dont know why, but it has really helped me accept the new food restrictions.