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Even if you are serious about losing weight by eliminating all grains from your diet, sometimes you’ll find yourself in the throes of social events — that holiday party, family get-together, or birthday celebration, where the host unwittingly promotes foods that you know can wreck your health and weight. You’ll have to be ready to make a choice.

If you’re eating a Partitioning Diet, then you’re not depriving yourself of calories (like you would on a conventional weight-loss diet), so your body should not be in dire requirement of just any calorie. This fact leaves you with caloric choices rather than caloric obligation. So during these social occasions, you’ll have to make the right choice.

You’ll need to remember that your body does not need – for any reason whatsoever — those grains or grain-based foods.

Having said that, there may be times when you may throw in a little of the stuff. If so, keep it limited. This means, along with the turkey on Thanksgiving, or with the steak at the dinner party, or with the party favors at the birthday celebration, you may include a little bit of stuffing, a piece of a freshly-baked roll, or a small piece of cake (leaving several bites behind, of course). This is what I mean by a low-grain meal.

I believe a low-grain meal here and there can be enjoyed safely. But you must remember the metabolic effect of grain-based carbohydrates: they’re likely to increase your insulin, and may leave you with unstable blood-glucose levels that can decrease satiation and increase hunger. These are some of the negative effects we strive to remove by eating a grain-free diet in the first place. You must remember that grains are man-made, and your body is healthier without it. Think of grains as cigarettes — they’re there, and you have a choice to use them, or not. Better if you don’t.

So if you do chose a low-grain meal, do so judiciously while keeping your mind on how you feel.