Tuesday RANT!!!

OK.. now.. i KNOW I am NOT a Total Dumb A$$!!!!!
I spoke to my Nut a couple of weeks ago.. and she made it Clear to Me that i needed to stay within the 800 to 1000 Calorie Range Per Day.. OK.. i got PIssed at this.. But i started watching everything like a Good Little boy.. and i realized i was doing some things that i could easily Cut out IE my Latte Habbit.. OK. so i cut those out.. and i've been averaging about 1000 to 1100 Calories a day since then.. OK.. NOW.. i ALso realized that when i work out ( Yea..i know i'm a Late Bloomer on this one) That i burnt up to 400 calories for one work out.. HOLY SH&#$%^##%
I had NO CLUE.. i could add that much more food back to my day just by working out..
SO i've started to work out every day.. and watching my Caloric intake..
my NET callories After my work outs.. have ranged between 600 Calories.. and 800 Calories.. per day.. now this is BELOW where she told me i needed to stay..
SO i missed my appointment with her yesterday but she calls for a brief update in the afternoon..
and just happens to mention that i'm doing a Great Job.. and that i'm putting my exercise in.. and it looks wonderfu...  (*And here's where i'm pi$$ed!!)
BUT......
" You need to decrease your Calories just a Little Bit More"
SERIOUSLY???!!!  WTF?????
What the Hell does she want me to do.. Stop Eating all together?
I Mean Come the F)(*&#$#$&*  ON!!! 
What am i Supposed to eat?? Is this Just her Job to always Gode on a Negative??
i understand her job is to be supportive but this borderlines on absolutly INSANE!
I am So Frigging PISSED right now...that its NOT Funny..
I know we All go through stuff like this.. but this is almost Comical in a way..
I am a firm believer.. that if you have not GONE THROUGH our Surgery.. you should not be allowed to be a Supportive Nutritionist for Our Surgery.. Empathy.. i fear.. is NOT enough in this case..
thanks for letting me Rant!

Awww, big hugs handsome!  How frustrating!  Maybe you should get a second opinion?  I am proud of you that you are uping your workouts.  I know that will help you in the long run.  Muscle bear, here you come.  I know you won't adopt the attitude of some of them! 

A healthy human being cannot possibly live healthy on what she is telling you!  A second opinion will help you!  You do not what to over fill your pouch, but you do not want to go into an unhealthy starvation mode either!  Good luck!~Ann~

Well, I don't go to a NUT but I do work out almost everyday I DON'T have a headache -- so it's been a couple of weeks since I've worked out.  Doc changed my meds yesterday so if I go without a headache for a couple of days without a headache I'll go back to the gym.

I'm my own NUT -- I eat what I know my stomach will tolerate and workout.  Those NUTS are NUTTY and that's why they are called NUTS for short.  Work out your own eating plan that works for you.  Eat what your stomach allows you to eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.  I'm not going to rant and rave abou****er because I don't drink enough of it myself.  I drink about 16 ounces an hour or so before I workout and of course water during the workout.  Thing is -- where do you put the food after the workout if you're going to eat.  One trainer told me you should eat within an hour after working out because your muscles need fuel.  I learned late last week that you should eat breakfast within your first hour of being up in the morning because it starts your metabolism -- no NUT ever told me that.

So I say -- save your money on the NUT -- develop your own plan and I'll bet it works just as well if not better.  Every body is different and I think they forget they.

Keep up the good work and never mind the NUT!

O.K.....I do not know where this nutritionist got her degree...but she is  F..cked  !!! I work with eating disordered children on one of the 3 medically based psychiatric units in the North East. What she is asking you to do it not only unhealthy but UNSAFE....Many of the patients who have anorexia I take care of attempt to eat between 300-600 calories a day !!!!!! That is considered starvation !!!!   This person is asking you to compromise your health... TO LOSE WEIGHT.....?????  Man, I work every day with a nutritionist....I know that 1000 calories is the very least a man should take in a day !!! AND THAT IS THE LOWEST FOR ANY EXTENDED PERIOD OF TIME !!!!!  Please find an outside source for nutritional information......and if this nutritionist works for your surgeon...I would let him or her know what she is telling you !!!!!!!   I CANNOT STAND INCOMPETENT HEALTH CARE WORKERS !!! IT GIVES US ALL A BAD NAME........

 Most of the Nuts I have met on this journey have been  kuku 4 coco puffs!  I had one at a treatment center I had put myself in for the compulsive eating that was starving me.  When the anorexics look at your plate and say "is that all you get to eat?" that is a problem.  This Nut was a young girl just out of school, didn't know shat about shat!  She thought she was the shat though.  After I almost passed out from hunger mu first week there, the director of the program redid my meal plan, adding quite a lot.  I still lost 15 lbs in the 4 weeks i was there.   I would have gone nuts for sure if they had kept starving me like that.  I still harbor ill will towards that brainless Nut. 

I saw my NUT once and only once.  A visit was required before surgery.  Her primary goal seemed to be to get me out of her office so she could go home.  She achieved the goal.  I was delighted to leave. 

Now I only listen to my doc and the nurses since they pretty much agree on everything.  The NUT was in her own universe and I don't want to ever visit it again.

babe, my Nut is a total nut.  I swear she's beens moking pot or eating too much granola.  She's a total flower child or something.  She still holds me to the 30/90 rule when drinking but I don't follow it.  go with what you know.  use those sample menus I sent you.  Also, I really just listen to my surgeon and his nurse when I have my appointment.  I just sit there and grin at the Nut as she talks and don't really listen to her.  Remember, pre-op you could have eaten a whole LOT more than what you currently eat.  Just stay on track and the weight loss will start up again.  Everyone hits a plateau (I've hit several little ones myself).  *HUGE BEAR HUGS*  thinking of you.

Keep it over 1000. If she drives you to anorexia and nutritional deficiencies, she has job security for life!!!! I don't think most Nuts have any idea how to deal with people who work out. Body fat analysis etc is SO much more accurate than your weight anyway. If you look more and more like a Muscle Bear - you are meeting your goal.