Nutritionist Appointments are hard... Group Appointments are awkward!
Before I could meet with my nutritionist 1:1 I had to go to a group seminar that lasted about 2.5 hours... What a drag! The group was filled with some interesting people to say the least all working on being qualified or making the decision if bariatric surgery was right for them.
My nutritionist asked a lot of questions and went over a lot of things during the seminar. But leaving I was ready to leave.. I knew what I had to do for the next month after leaving that group. I needed to track every single thing I ate for the next month and not gain any weight.. But eat better, low carbs, low sugar, no drinking anything within 30 minutes of eating! Essentially the gastric bypass diet once completely healed.
Before my seminar I had my abdominal ultrasound.. Which took just about an hour and a half.. When I got the results I kind of laughed... This may be TMI but I needed to Fart the whole time.. As much as she pushed on my stomach I kept it in. The results after two weeks came back saying they couldn't see everything (but that was okay I didn't need another one) due to patient having gas building up. I laughed right out loud.. Okay back to nutrition...
Just kidding with the picture to the right! But had to add some color and humor of course!
I started off doing fairly well with this. My girlfriends mom got me an amazing lunch pale for Christmas which made bringing extra meals to work easy, as you are supposed to eat ever 3-4 hours and drink water non-stop. I also made my own layout for how I was going to record everything I ate.
If you would like me to email you the pdf of this let me know and I can definitely do so, so you can print it easily!! I found it extremely helpful to have a different page for every single day and I hole punched them to keep them all in a binder. In that binder I also included everything I had gotten so far from the seminars as well as the appointment with the PA- and the massive check list.
So every day for 4 weeks I filled one of these out.. And then the day for my first individual appointment came. It wasn't fun, at least it wasn't fun for me.
My eating habits were critiqued. Now with that said I had been eating more veggies, more lean meat and I thought I had been doing fairly well.. My nutritionist had other things to say... This made me feel like giving up. But I knew this was for me. I had another 4 weeks of trying to do better and writing down everything I ate until my second appointment with her.
My second appointment I got on the scale again and was down 6lbs! I was happy about that.. My nutritionist didn't say a word about it. Okay I get it, you're miserable.. Or trying to get under my skin to motivate me, I'm going to say she was trying to motivate me.
At the end of my second appointment she gave me the approval as well as what I would need to do after surgery/ the diet I would need to follow. Which meant the waiting game would have to continue.
As I thought more and more about nutrition and tried to make healthy decisions for me I decided to look into classes at the college that I work for. So I am enrolled into Introduction to Nutrition (an online class) for the semester. Luckily for me I can take classes for free and I figured for me it would be great knowledge to have moving forward with my own process as well as for the future!!