I met with a nutritionist Friday. I wasn't surprised by the fact that darn near everything I like to eat is bad for me, but planning and cooking meals is not my thing. I was hoping I could eat some of what my wife cooks, and sometimes I can in smaller portions, but the nutritionist wants me to eat 5 starches, 1 meat, 2 fats, and 2 "free" items each meal. For breakfast I'm happy with a small bowl of cereral with some milk and a small banana sliced on it. But I have to also have orange juice and a meat product and something from the fat category. The reasoning is I'll get hungry later and not stay on the diet. And I can't buy frozen diet dinners as they don't have enough calories. The nutritionist doesn't want me to starve myself.

I need to go grocery shopping and find stuff I can make in quantity and then use over a week or two, like small boneless chicken fillets and lean hamburger that I can make in appropriate portions and then add the sides to the meals. At this point I don't feel this is going to be my way of eating the rest of my life; I feel I will do it and lose weight but in time I'll "modify" the diet.

On a side note, the nutritionist had me weigh myself on her digital scale. I really feel my regular doctor's scale is off as on the nutritionist's scale and on other scales I weigh around 373. On the doctor's scale I weighed 388 on August 1st. He has the old fashioned scale with weights and it goes up to 300lbs, then they have to hang a little weight block on the scale. Either his scale isn't calibrated correctly or someone isn't working it right for my weight. I see him Wednesday and I will try to get him to believe me. So, my starting weight may have been around 373. Last Friday it was 370 on the nutritionist's scale.

I'll post again after Wednesday's doctor appointment.


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