Nutritionist appt. Frustrations

Hi There
I went to my nutritionist appt the other day & started this appt. by telling
her that I had RNY surgery & I am different from the normal
person diabetic person. She said O.K, I understand that. It ended up
with the same ole stuff that I should be eating 35 grms of carbs per
meal. NOTTTTTT in this lifetime. I told her I can't do that or I would
gain all the weight that I just lost since Feburary (25 lbs) if I start
eating carbs like that (even the good carbs) So I figure it was a wasted
appt. & like a good girl came home & continued with what I have been doing.
Protein first & very low-carb & have no plans on starting her way of eating in
the near futre. Just needed to vent a little, thanks
for listening. I just hate when these skinny little things that have been to
school to learn nutrition have not a clue about weight loss patients & how we
keep the weight loss off.

I don't like nutritionists. Haven't had a good one yet!!!! They have their mind SET and thats that. You keep on doing what you're doing. I don't EVER count carbs because i try my darndest not to eat any!!! aside from fruit and carbs in my protein and such. Just stick with the protein and no sugar and just eat the fruit and veggies and you'll be fine! oh and of course make sure you take your vitamins and such. Nope... don't like the nutritionists. Now alternative medicine people like Pammie is seeing... those are nice.   ((hugs!!))

I understand just what your saying marilyn it makes my blood boil! I still can not understand why the dietician at my surgeons office after knowing that I had abused laxatives to try to lose weight and was going through terrible episodes having to eat every 20 to 30 minutes or goign  into them would give me a strick diet and tell me i needed to eat no more than 3 hours between meals. when i told her again what was happening she basicvally told me it was all in my head!!!
Then told me in a sarcastic voice " you wnat to lose weight don't you"
lets back up a minute or lets back up 5 years ago little miss size 0 missy! I had the friggin surgery 5 years ago lady to lose weight that I could not do on my own. duhhhhhh YES  you idiot I do want to lose weight I want to stop gaining the weight that I can not keep off but I also on the other hand do not want to pass out get dizzy feel numb and have pains in my feet lets not forget the coldness in those same feet hands and lets!
In my head give me a break. the more i think about it the more angry I get about that. let me tell you the next time i go for a visit i will NOT be seeing that dietician and I will be giving my surgeon a piece of my mind. I'm sure he's heard it all before but he'll hear it again and from me.
You should have seen my face when I went to the homeopathic naturalist doctor when i told her. i thought i was being like an anerexic but what i was was bulimec (please forgive the spelling) The new doctor told me that when I said I was afraid that I would be come anerexic she said no you are bulimec. Because I was using extreme excersize and laxatives and not eating to try to lose weight.
I thought other than the laxatives that i wasn't being drastic with the other stuff but combined with it all yeah i was. ok live and learn right?
now i have to fight with myself daily to do what is right and if i have a problem figuring that out i just read the info she gave me along wiht my notes. plus i have to document what i eat and what excersize i do.
i'm doing good. i'm sorry i got all wound up again on my tangent about those stupid doctors!
sometimes its a waste of our money to go to them!

I'm with you guys on this one, I just haven't found a dietician that really understood the issues of weight loss patients or the morbidly obese.  I remember before surgery I had to see a dietician and do the 6 month diet for insurance.  She gave me a diabetic diet (I'm not diabetic, never have been) and for 6 months, tried to talk me out of surgery.  Now this woman was a good 40 or 50 pounds overweight and through the whole 6 months I went to her, never lost any weight that I could see.  I kept wondering if she was following the advice she as giving me and whether or not she could relate her own food issues with what was going on with her patients. 

Marilyn, you keep doing what works for you. 

Hugs,
Connie

Yeah, the only reason I even went to this appt is the State of AZ thought I needed it!!
So to keep them happy I went. Total waste of time in my opinion.