Do's instead of Don'ts.... what a difference presentation makes

Fascinatingly, what makes this diet less scary/distressing than the last one is the way I've been presented with the restrictions. Last time I got a list of foods I couldn't eat. So each time I tried to come up with a meal option I found that there was something I couldn't have in the ingredients and it was very depressing.

Having a short allowed foods list actually makes this first week much more restrictive, but also a lot more like iron chef. These are the ingredients at my disposal, and that makes it stress free in some ways because I don't think of things that aren't made from just those ingredients.

This is one of those times that I'm so glad that I'm an inventive cook... if I were recipe bound, this would be very hard.