Slightly Insulted?
So yesterday get home- things are good- feeling good- start making dinner- yada yada. Hubby says “oh there is a letter from our insurance…” I get it and inside is a referral to a nutritionist FROM MY DOCTOR! BOO.
I was like hey uh she didn’t even TALK to me about it- she just referred me? I mean at least talk to me about it… Don’t just send it out… I would have listened… Probably still wouldn’t have gone- but I would have listened :p
The problem isn’t not knowing what to eat- it’s just doing it. I know last weekend I ate like crap- I was sick and for meals no one was like “hey let me make something” they’d just go pick up food… Sure I could have probably cooked for myself- but I didn’t. I know this weekend won’t be the same because I’m not sick and I will cook like I have been doing everyday SINCE then.
Here’s last night’s dinner:
Brown and red rice (not the instant stuff- this stuff took 45 minutes to cook!), a green bean mix, chicken, and a TINY bit of mashed potato (my weakness but that’s all I had). I had seconds of the green beans (yummy they are SOO good) as well. Later on I had a blackberry yogurt (yum) for a snack at like 7:30. My breakfast that day was a large apple with peanut butter and one whole wheat fig bar, then lunch was grilled veggies with chicken and I went next door to the Thai place and got some fresh spring rolls (the ones that are not fried).
They are soo yummy 
I also had a snack of 1 oz of cheese after lunch (around 2:30).
I thought overall a healthy day.
Today I am having a fig bar and some whole wheat pretzels (forgot my apple darn), then lunch is leftover chicken, brown rice, and green beans. I also brought a pomegranate/cherry yogurt for lunch in case I was still hungry. Dinner is home made stir fry with brown rice again. I got a stir fry mix and I believe I have some sort of Teryaki sauce around- if not I think I have most of the ingrediants to make up a sauce.
Oh and dude so I get up this morning and weigh in- yay 207. Then all of a sudden I have a you know what urge- I go then weigh myself again (hey I KNOW you guys have done this at one point or another) and I’ve gained half a pound- darn it lol 
I’m going with the 207 and hoping to see 205 on Monday
Have a great day everyone!
Oh and in case you were wondering YES I am thinking about going to the nutritionist. I am going to start logging what I eat again then try to get an appointment next week so I can bring my stuff and see what she suggests. But if she patronizes me in ANY way I’m walking out.
Uh… yeah that’s something your doctor should talk to you about, or give you if you request it. That’s…weird. I’d love to see a nutritionist, but my insurance doesn’t cover them. I think you have the right idea. Go, and if the nutritionist is a douche, leave.
weird your doctor did this without talking to you!
your food so far looks great as far as taste and health goes
I do the scale dance on a daily basis… I step on at least 5 times to make sure it’s not a fluke
I feel the same - it’s not that I don’t know what to eat, it’s actually doing it that’s the hard part!!
Um yeah I have TOTALLY done the scale/potty thing… lol
Consider yourself lucky; if I ate everything you did yesterday I would’ve gained 2 lbs., easy. LOL
Go to the nutritionist! Can’t hurt!
I’m guessing your doctor thinks that your energy issues are related to the food you are eating, and that is why he/she sent the nutritionist referral. The doctor hasn’t been so agreeable to the new meds, so I’m wondering if this is her/his passive way of showing you what he/she thinks. Very weird.. since had he/she said what he/she was thinking you could of told the doctor that you’ve actually been eating well. And that there is another issue here.
Yeah I thought it was odd too- BUT I’m going- I’ll be calling for an appointment and with my daily printouts the nutritionist might give me a pointer or two that I can use.
Really sunny you think you’d have gained? Do you mind putting out a sample meal plan of what you eat? Or what you think I should have cut out? Besides the obvious potato lol. I know when I track the stuff on my spark people it usually adds up to 1300ish calories. I mean I know I’m not 100% perfect but I know for sure I eat better than most people.
Yeah PS I agree she should have told me- but she probably wouldn’t have believed me anyways… I’m still going but yeah seriously don’t treat me like a kid or something. This is the same lady I argued with though when my husband was sick and yelled at her to give my husband a referral to a neurologist so she probably hates me anyways :p
I would have been slightly insulted too - especially with her sliding the info in the mail and not mentioning it to you. What if you had questions? My friend who weighs about 250 was recently referred to a nutritionist by her doctor about her weight - she was kinda pissed about it too. I guess when it happens to you, you look at it differently.
I think you’re doing great with your eating from the pics that you post. Those beans look yummy.
Too many carbs (for me), Bee. Rice and mashed potatoes at one meal? (Plus green beans, times two, which are carb-high too)..I can’t eat carbs like that and not gain. Your day’s worth sounds like more than 1,300 calories…maybe the portions sound bigger than they are. Out of curiosity, do you use a scale at all to weigh your portions? Just wondering.
oh, and a standard day for me:
Breakfast: 1/2 cheese or sesame bagel, with 2 tbsp. of ICBINB (lite), and 16 whole almonds. = 350 calories
Lunch: large garden salad with 2-3 tbsp. of Bob’s dressing (lite), 1 pepper jack cheeze thingie (shaped like string cheese, but not), and 12 whole almonds or 5-6 low fat wheat thin crackers. = 350-400 calories
Snack: 1 Hershey’s dark chocolate and almonds Nugget. = 45 calories
Dinner: baked chicken or grilled beef (no skin on chicken.) another garden salad and dressing as at lunch. = 400 calories or so
dessert, sometimes, -another Nugget.
Come in right at about 1,200 calories.
Weekend it’s only 2 meals, usually, but much larger breakfast and a little more splurging at dinner.
Sunnydaze it’s not the referral that makes me mad- but the sneaky way she did it. If she had spoken to me about it I’d have been open to it.
I don’t weigh my portions but like for the rice I’ll measure it out with measuring cups. The mashed potato is a large tablespoon full (I know it looks like a lot but seriously I just dunked my spoon in and got one spoonful!)- I just wanted a bit cuz it always looks soo good- I have to kick that habit. I thought green beans were low carb- I just looked up for 4 oz it has 8 grams of carbs. Or if I buy meat and it’s 1 lb, I’ll divide it up so that I have like four 4 oz portions. I take the photo very close so might make it look larger? Cuz that’s not more than 1 cup of rice.
I can’t eat very low carb forever cuz of my kidneys, that’s why I’ve been adding in more good carbs. I think I’d get sick again if I went down to that little carbs- do you know what your carbs are for the day? I try to get in under 100 grams a day and usually do. I can’t do under 50 grams- makes me too ill.
Thanks for the help- I did calculate my calories yesterday- they were 1321 BUT I had 160 grams of carbs! I was at 60% carbs so yeah higher than the 40% I want it to be so I have to keep that in check!
I don’t worry about carb numbers, except the # of servings a day I have, which is never more than 2. Odd you say low carb hurts your kidneys; I was having re-occuring kidney stones the past 2 years; had surgery once, and was told I needed surgery again. That was a major catalyst for me to get healthy and since I’ve been on South Beach/low carb, I haven’t had a single problem. Low carbs have been amazing for my kidneys! Odd, huh?
p.s. I just did a little research. It seems it’s a fallacy that low carbs damage the kidneys; it’s the high protein that often accompanies low carb diets that are the culprit. Too much protein isn’t good. Too much blood sugar isn’t good for the kidneys, either. So a low carb diet, that de-emphasizes elevated blood sugar (which low carb diets always do) that is light on protein is good for kidneys. Sure has been in my case! (but no matter what you eat or don’t, re kidneys it all comes down to fluid intake. Need to drink 9-12 glasses of water or non-soda a day. That’s what kidneys love the best. LOL
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That doctor had no right to just send that through without saying a word to you. You had every right to be insulted.
Your meals that you posted looked yummy. How do you make the uncooked spring rolls ? Those look so good!