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.

Comments

[neeuqdrazil.livejournal.com]

See, if that's what she had said, I wouldn't have a problem with it. But it wasn't. She just said "No pasta. Pasta bad. No rice. Rice bad. (Even long-grain or brown or wild rice, apparently.) Only good carbs - potatoes, yams, corn." And whole wheat pasta is still bad.

And if she had given general guidelines (i.e., reduce carbs, less of this type of fat) then I would have such a problem with it. But a) the recipes she gave him, and b) the recommendations she gave him, are both boring and very limiting.

And I'm not willing to live the rest of my life like this. (This isn't a time-limited diet for a specific result, this is a lifestyle change.) It just seemed that she wasn't willing to work with him at all to find workable alternatives that would actually work with our life.

[neeuqdrazil.livejournal.com]

er, wouldn't have such a problem. Damn typing thing.

[tylorael.livejournal.com]

My suggestion? Take what she said and go on the internet - find a forum, get a second opinion type.

[curgoth]

Though, to be fair, she was running 20 minutes late, and it was only supposed to be a 40 minute initial consult. But on the other hand, she was kind of just popping things off of a standard list. The next meeting is supposed to be more me talking, according to her.