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!

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[browngirl.livejournal.com]

*beam* Thank you. :)