draining all pleasure from food

[curgoth]

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.

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Re: just curious...

[curgoth]

For breakfast, I am to have oatmeal.

For lunch, a sandwich, in either chicken, turkey, or lean orast beef, with mustard, and a side salad.

My afternoon snack is 16 almods or 10 walnut halves, and an apple.

dinner is a baked potato or yam, or 1 cup of corn, 1 cup of a "type A" veg, and 1 cup of a "type B" veg, and 6 oz of lean meat. Ideally, the meat would be fish. Red meat at most twice a week. Additionally, I may have a salad garnished with 1 tbsp of olive or canola oil.

I am encouraged to have another serving of fruit and/or dairy as well.

Pasta is essentially verboten; I can eat it if I'm at someone else's house, and they make it, but I musn't order it at restaurants or make it myself. Rice must be limited to about 1 cup if I eat it, though rice is also not recommended.

This is a "nutritional consultant", to whom I was referred by an endocrinologist, who I saw exactly once, on the subject of my cholesterol levels (need more HDL, quite a bit more). I was referred to the endocrinologist to a) assess my risk of heart disease, and b) refer me to a nutritionist.

Some of the sugestions are helpful. On the other hand, yams? Ok everyonce and a while, but every third night, that's going to get real boring, real fast.

As for credentials, she's a "Registered Dietician", and had half a dozen certificates on her wall behind her. So it looks like she's been doing this for a while.

Re: just curious...

[tylorael.livejournal.com]

Think about substituting squash done in different styles and such for just yams. They can be pretty tasty, especially with maple syrup or brown sugar.

Re: just curious...

[curgoth]

Well, brown sugar and maple syrup are verboten, according to the rules, and squash is listed as the kind of vegetable I can only have 1/2 cup of per meal.

Re: just curious...

[themusesbitch.livejournal.com]

sounds kind of like the dietetic (sp?) diet they put diabetics on... is it supposed to be a permanent thing, or just temporary?

We had a nutritionist/herbalist in a work a few weeks ago that sounds like your kind of therapist. She firmly said "There are no bad foods, everything is ok in moderation", but then clearly told us that the majority of your diet should be fruit and veggies, coupled with lean protein and whole grains. And of course, some variation is ok.

I have to agree, though, that white flour (and things made from it) is kind of poison... in that, it turns to sugar in your body almost instantly. I know several people who've had to cut back their weight for health reasons (my dad included) and have done it by only a) cutting out empty carbs (mostly bread and pasta, potatoes and rice) and alcohol. My dad loses about 2 pounds a week when he cuts out those things.

The problem is, all convenient food tends to be based in carbs.

It's a big pain in the ass, basically.

Re: just curious...

[curgoth]

This is meant to be a "lifestyle change", so, an eternity of yams.

Re: just curious...

[corwin77.livejournal.com]

Speaking as a diabetic I was encouraged by my nutritionist to eat MORE pasta and rice. Admitadly that was in response to the multitude of fried food I would eat. Even my diet isn't this strict. I would get a second opinion.