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draining all pleasure from food
So, I made it to the nutritionist today. I'm feeling... unconvinced.
I was kind of hoping for some general guidelines to work with; something like, more protein here, less carbs here, these foods are good, these you ought to avoid. Instead, I got basically a menu to live off of. The menu is pretty limited, and doesn't really allow for flexibility or creativity, and assume that one has time to pre-cook stuff.
I was provided with a pile of recipes, almost all of which look bland and uninteresting; it's basically the same kind of bland, uninteresting stuff my parents keep working at. I'm going to try to stick to it for a while anyway, but I suspect that I'll just cough up the cash (this ain't covered by OHIP) and take what I can live with and see how I do.
On the fun side, it took just over two hours to get to the place from work, plus 30 minutes to stop and eat some lunch. It'll be a bit quicker once the Sheppard subway line opens next week, but it's still a trek, and it'll still end up with me basically losing half a day of work...
I spent a good deal of my life feeling guilty about everything I ate, and hating most of the food I was eating. I don't especially want to go back to that, and I know Liz won't put up with this limited menu.
If this is what I have to do to live longer, maybe a shorter life is the better deal?
Blah. I am tired and feeling negative. I want to eat birthday cake to rebel.
I was kind of hoping for some general guidelines to work with; something like, more protein here, less carbs here, these foods are good, these you ought to avoid. Instead, I got basically a menu to live off of. The menu is pretty limited, and doesn't really allow for flexibility or creativity, and assume that one has time to pre-cook stuff.
I was provided with a pile of recipes, almost all of which look bland and uninteresting; it's basically the same kind of bland, uninteresting stuff my parents keep working at. I'm going to try to stick to it for a while anyway, but I suspect that I'll just cough up the cash (this ain't covered by OHIP) and take what I can live with and see how I do.
On the fun side, it took just over two hours to get to the place from work, plus 30 minutes to stop and eat some lunch. It'll be a bit quicker once the Sheppard subway line opens next week, but it's still a trek, and it'll still end up with me basically losing half a day of work...
I spent a good deal of my life feeling guilty about everything I ate, and hating most of the food I was eating. I don't especially want to go back to that, and I know Liz won't put up with this limited menu.
If this is what I have to do to live longer, maybe a shorter life is the better deal?
Blah. I am tired and feeling negative. I want to eat birthday cake to rebel.
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Last year, before my dad was diagnosed as terminal, I was doing an experimental nutritional program with Mass General Hospital. When I stuck to it, it worked pretty well. They told me to cut down on my carbs - less white rice, more brown rice - less pasta, more European style breads (the kind Quinn hates, the kind I pointed out to Liz in the grocery store - it's made by Mestemacher). When I was sticking to it, not only did it work, but my body felt better. I'm trying to shift back to that now. But the whole point of the diet was that nothing was forbidden; it was just that some things should be taken in smaller portions.
Frankly, from what you've said, my gut instinct says to ditch the bitch. Or look on her bookshelf and see if she's got either The Zone or The Atkins Diet hidden there.
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My mom and dad and my brother were heading towards heart attack central and went on a modified diet where you cut out white bread/pasta, and went with the "Does it grow in a field? No? well then don't eat much of it cause that's bad." Which meant steel cut oats for oatmeals, long grain and wild rice, wheat pastas, and other substitutions. Increasing lean protien (found in dairy as well as meat), and eating every two hours so that the hunger bug doesn't drive you nuts. They also gave them a huge list of spices and herbs to use for flavor. When eating sushi, they just take out a lot of the rice as they eat.
My diet is modified off of that, and it works for me. This diet sounds too extreme and unlivable. Maybe the next appointment she'll address the blandness, and moderation. If she doesn't, I'd find a new nutrionalist.