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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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Yes, there are still people THAT ignorant in the world.
As for low-fat protein, what about chicken, fish, shellfish, tofu, turkey, and even eggs? Our nutritionist told us that the cholestoral in our blood doesn't come from cholestoral in food, it comes from saturated fats, which we convert to cholestoral...
The problem I guess, is that there's just no concensus on these things...
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Eggs are still on enough "bad" lists that I'll stick to the restriction my family doc gave me (three egg yolks a week, as many egg whites as I want). I do not do shellfish or tofu. Regardless, there's still jsut a limit on how full I can get from 6 oz of any low fat protein. That's one small chicken breast.
The one time in my life that I lost a significant amount of weight in a short period of time (OAC at high school, lost something like 15 lbs in 6 weeks) it was ebcause I was so disgusted by everything I was eating that I just didn't eat very much. And, maybe this diet could do that. I don't think I'd be happy with that though.