What's on your Menu Today (Thursday) RNYers?
on 2/16/17 10:03 am
Right?!?! Mind you, my center is lovely and very supportive, but seriously, carbs? void of protein and any nutritional value?? My NUT said that it wasn't a big deal because you could only eat a few bites of anything anyway.
RNY 11/21/16 - HW/SW 309 LW 150
REVISION 4/10/23 - HW 240 SW 225 CW 164 GW 155
Amazing to me. I'm almost 3 years post op, and in maintenance and, technically, I can eat anything (I don't, but that's another story). I ran a 10k at Christmas with my surgeon and he invited me back to his house for a gathering he has every year. He told me when he invited me that he would make sure he had appropriate food for me . . . and he did. Cheese, smoked salmon, salmon burgers . . . he would never advocate eating food like spaghettios . . . I don't think he'd even give it to his kid . . .
on 2/16/17 10:29 am
You are very lucky to have a great doctor that gets it!!
RNY 11/21/16 - HW/SW 309 LW 150
REVISION 4/10/23 - HW 240 SW 225 CW 164 GW 155
Sure, just a few bites. For a while. But later on we can eat a lot more. And if we don't get free of that crap early on, we'll stay hooked, and then the weight starts climbing back up.
It's crappy advice, with a foolish rationale. I'm glad you understand that, but so many do not.
6'3" tall, male.
Highest weight was 475. RNY on 08/21/12. Current weight: 198.
M1 -24; M2 -21; M3 -19; M4 -21; M5 -13; M6 -21; M7 -10; M8 -16; M9 -10; M10 -8; M11 -6; M12 -5.
on 2/16/17 10:28 am
Exactly! I agree it is crappy advice. Another great reason to come here everyday!
RNY 11/21/16 - HW/SW 309 LW 150
REVISION 4/10/23 - HW 240 SW 225 CW 164 GW 155
Morning DD2! I'm so glad you got to meet your Daisy twin!
QOTD: Does anyone watch Big Bang Theory? I love the one where Sheldon learns to swim on his living room floor using the internet. That's what it's like when a surgeon and a 92 pound nutritionist tell us how we need to eat after weight loss surgery. There is just no way they can know how we live, and what works.
When I started, I read a lot of posts. I sought out the people who succeeded in losing all their excess weight, AND kept it off over the long haul. They lived this life, and kicked its ass. THOSE were the people I listened to really, really closely.
I have no idea what I would have done without OH.
6'3" tall, male.
Highest weight was 475. RNY on 08/21/12. Current weight: 198.
M1 -24; M2 -21; M3 -19; M4 -21; M5 -13; M6 -21; M7 -10; M8 -16; M9 -10; M10 -8; M11 -6; M12 -5.
on 2/16/17 8:24 am
It really is amazing that I've been meeting with nutrionists for about 10 years now, and none of them are ever over 25 years old or over 100lbs.
Is it because the field of nutrition is booming, and none of them have had the chance to be 45 year old nutritionists? Or do they only stick around for a few years, and go on to another field?
6'3" tall, male.
Highest weight was 475. RNY on 08/21/12. Current weight: 198.
M1 -24; M2 -21; M3 -19; M4 -21; M5 -13; M6 -21; M7 -10; M8 -16; M9 -10; M10 -8; M11 -6; M12 -5.
on 2/16/17 10:37 am
My current theory is that it's the worst gig in nutrition and that it's the only job that nutrition majors can get out of college because it's considered low-level.
I think it's a little of both. I think interest in nutrition has grown a lot in the last few years - so more need for professionals. Also, I know two former dietitians. They both left the field because they got burnt out telling patients how to eat when so many of them didn't comply and/or had no interest in healthy eating (these were not bariatric dietitians, btw). Even people who had serious medical conditions like heart attacks - they wanted to continue eating crappy food. I don't know if these two women are representative of former dietitians as a whole, but I wouldn't be all that surprised.