My Visit To The Nutritionist

[browngirl]

My nutritionist's appointment actually was really awesome and very useful. So of course it's taken me days and days to write up her advice, and I hope I haen't forgotten all the nuances.

The nutritionist was a very nice and personable woman who set out to work with what I like to eat, and phrased things in terms of portion and balance, protein-with-healthy-fats and fiber, instead of do's and don'ts. She understood that I like to cook and wanted to make my diet work with my roommates' (including the Joshlet), and agreed that I should avoid "low fat" products where the fat is replaced with fillers like corn syrup. (Note to self: I can subtract fiber grams when counting carbohydrate grams.)

First off, I need to eat breakfast. Two, really: a piece of fruit and/or a few nuts (1/4 cup or so) or a chunk of protein-rich bar, as soon as I can after waking, and then at around 10 AM some combination of these:


Column One
cashew butter
nuts
eggs (3 yolks/week)
cottage cheese (1 or 2 %)
plain yogurt
cheese (1 slice)
soybeans
Column Two
whole wheat english muffin
whole wheat toast
steel cut oats (cooked with 1 tbsp ground flaxseed per serving.)
fruit
kashi waffles, granola bars, cereal
7-grain flake cereal, heart to heart (Kashi brand)
Nature's Path, Smart Bran, All Bran (erk)


Some sample combos:
hard boiled egg + 2 whites + wheat english muffin + fruit
1 cup yogurt + 3/4 cup fruit + 2/3 cup smart bran
8 oz oatmeal + fruit + 1/4 cup nuts
wheat english muffin + cashew nut butter + fruit
wheat toast + scrambled eggs (1 egg 2 whites) + 1 slice cheese
2 kashi waffles + 1 tbsp maple syrup + yogurt + fruit

Dinnertime: the usual 1, 1, 2 (1 meat, 1 starch, 2 veg). 1 cup starch. Peas, corn, winter squash, potatoes, pasta, rice, bread all are starches. (Duh.)

So. Wolf kindly bought me big bags of dry frozen fruit, and Tigerlily gave me a lunchbox; I need to find one cup containers to carry yogurt and oatmeal in, but I can do this. I really feel like I can do this kind of thing, that it's not a punishing diet.

And now to implement this by finding some breakfast!

Comments

Re: What are you eating for lunch?

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

For lunch? A smaller dinner, or at least that's what I'm trying to have.

And yeah, the goal of all this is not to *go* to the hospital. :) Also, give your husband an extra hug for me; nurses are heroes.

Yay for good diet!

[dakiwiboid.livejournal.com]

My hubby empathizes too much with his patients. Most of his patients are over 70. He's working in an extended-care facility, which bridges the gap between full ICU or other intensive nursing and home care. These are folks who aren't sick enough for that, but aren't well enough to go home, mostly. Fortunately, most of them go home feeling a lot better than when they arrived.

The ones who manage, even late in life, to solve diabetes-related problems, suddenly find that they have much freer, happier lives. He comes home feeling much better when his patients are doing well.

He walks five miles a night, which means I sometimes have trouble getting him to go for a walk for fun with me, though. :(