Death By Statistics
I’m sure I’ve mentioned before that this week Tuesday through Friday we are having four solid days of statistics lecture. Let me tell you it’s torture.
So right now at lunch one of the guys (who btw is a fit and healthy male) tells me him and his wife are not eating carbs at dinner, and that last night when they did it a little while later they each ate an apple with peanut butter afterwards and they felt very tired. I asked him “why aren’t you eating carbs for dinner anymore?” and he said his dietician said don’t eat carbs for dinner because it makes you fat. I told him I’m sorry but that’s totally screwy to me. You are a fit and healthy male, obviously how you are eating is right for you and your wife as you both are active and healthy and not overweight. And I was like your body processes carbs first because it’s quick energy. That’s probably why you were so tired last night because you normally eat a healthy balance but didn’t last night. He was like well carbs make you fat, I was like no, a LOT of carbs make you fat, but you can eat carbs at dinner. He said his dietician told him his body will process food differently at night to which I said that that’s wrong as well, no matter what time of day you eat- your body will process food the same.
Then afterwards I felt kind of bad cuz I felt I insinuated his dietician was full of it- but I’m sorry why tell a person who is fit and healthy to stop eating carbs at night? He works out a few times a week, his lunches are always filled with things like fruit and whole grains and lean meats, and so on… It just seemed to me like she was looking to keep a client vs saying “hey man you are doing it right.” I mean I don’t know his cholesterol levels and so on, but I’d wager he’s fine.
Anyways so I hope I didn’t offend him or anything so I’ll just apologize to him later when I see him after lunch and say I wasn’t trying to overstep my bounds and hope he’s not offended.
I mean I’m not crazy am I? lol. It doesn’t make sense to you does it?
You are totally right. Why some people think that is beyond me. He either has a screwy nutritionist or he misunderstood.
He had to have misunderstood. I’m a low-carber, but even when I get to the later phases, I’ll be having natural carbs with dinner. That just sounds strange to me to not eat any at dinner unless you are in like phase 1 of weight loss. Just weird. Anyways, I think you’re doing the right thing by apologizing. Maybe he’ll go back and talk to them to figure out what’s going on or even seek a second opinion.