So So Sorry for such a late homework. Busy day and I forgot!! Anyway, I thought I would call it Fat Free Friday. I just wonder how many of us are aware of the rough percentage of fat we consume each day. We are all aware, more and more, of portion sizes and balance. I have decided to just be more aware of how much of what I eat is fat. I love cheese sticks and I realized that I could mindlessly eat probably more than I should in a day, because they are low fat. Just an awareness check!
Posts: 1376 | Location: West Florida | Registered: March 12, 2004
Originally posted by GoingSkiing: Sheri, TRY again with a different person! The RD I saw sees mostly un-healthy people who are sort of being "forced" in to eating healthier. I think that she was actually really happy to spend time with someone who was eating pretty healthy and looking to make improvements. That was the impression I got...
The right RD is out there for you!
Yea, that's the sad thing...I really DO want to try again. See, I have trust issues as it is, so when I did "the right thing" to find the first nutritionist and she was terrible, it has made me even more distrustful. But I WILL try again...just doing my procrastination thing, ya know.
Posts: 7260 | Location: Rehoboth Beach, DE | Registered: March 12, 2004
Originally posted by Matanca: ...Wellness center that can do a consultation for not to much (somewhere between $50-100) and also BMI.
You don't need a consultation to figure out your BMI. You can go to the Mayo Clinic and there is a BMI calculator.
I had a personal trainer calculate my body fat % using a hand held thing and then I found this website and put in the info and came up with the exact same number.
Originally posted by TriGirl: I got a referral from a friend. That seems to be the best way to find any medical professional.
I had a friend refer me to her dentist (who she raved about) and it was not a good fit. We waited two hours for basic teeth cleaning appointments more than once.
But then another friend (who is a hygenist) refered me to her office and we've been really happy there.
Originally posted by Matanca: Thanks for the advice guys. I found out the the university gym I go to has a Health and Wellness center that can do a consultation for not to much (somewhere between $50-100) and also BMI. I'm thinking of making an appointment. We'll see how it goes.
My mom belongs to a simular gym. It is affiliated with the local hospital and the gym has a RD on staff.
Sheri, TRY again with a different person! The RD I saw sees mostly un-healthy people who are sort of being "forced" in to eating healthier. I think that she was actually really happy to spend time with someone who was eating pretty healthy and looking to make improvements. That was the impression I got...
Thanks for the advice guys. I found out the the university gym I go to has a Health and Wellness center that can do a consultation for not to much (somewhere between $50-100) and also BMI. I'm thinking of making an appointment. We'll see how it goes.
I got a referral from a friend. That seems to be the best way to find any medical professional.
One thing to look into is any local university that has a dietetics program. We have one here and there are times when students do free nutritional consultations with people for practice. If the school has a "Family and Consumer Sciences" program (new name for Home Ec) that would be the place to check.
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Posts: 2868 | Location: Ohio | Registered: March 11, 2004
Originally posted by Bee: If your doctor doesn't have anyone to refer you to, call your local hospital and ask them for some recommendations.
Even this isn't a sure thing, though I quite agree that chances of finding a quality nutrionist are higher going through other professionals than just cold calling from the phone book. I went through the Virginia Dietitic Association to find a nutritionist, which was the route suggested by some nutrition professionals at my workplace. The VDA referred me to a woman in my area who they said specialized in the area of weight loss. During my initial consultation, I never felt confident in her authority or knowledge...she seemed very tentative in everything she told me, like she was just guessing. She kept acting like she didn't know why I was there, because I was already eating healthy, and I felt like she was just humoring me. As a result, I never went back for another appointment.
Because I went through what nutrition professionals told me was the right way to find a good nutritionist, I'm now jaded about trying again to find someone good.
Personal Healthy Habits Challenge - 10/1 to 12/31/08: 1. Exercise: Get back to consistently working out 3-5 X week. 2. Food: Get back to consistently preparing healthy lunches for the week with increased veg servings. 3. Behavior: Reduce intake of sweets.
Posts: 7260 | Location: Rehoboth Beach, DE | Registered: March 12, 2004
Originally posted by Matanca: This is a little off topic but how did you all find a dietician? My doc told me that insurance doesn't cover such things.
Heather
If your doctor doesn't have anyone to refer you to, call your local hospital and ask them for some recommendations.
If you have friends who have used one, word of mouth is good too.
I certainly would not just start randomly calling people out of the phone book.
Out of our beliefs are born deeds; out of our deeds we form habits; out of our habits grows our character; and on our character we build our destiny.
Originally posted by Matanca: ...how did you all find a dietician? My doc told me that insurance doesn't cover such things.
I tried the phone book, but you have to be careful, because anybody can call themselves a nutritionist...
I tried searching on-line and got phone numbers which had been disconnected…
I go to an semi-HMO - and called there for a referral and they have registered dieticians on staff. It was very helpful going to someone in that office because she had access to all my blood work going back several years and she explained things that I never knew. I had a food log… but she could tell how I ate based on the blood numbers.
Like at one point, she said that she could tell that I ate a good balance of carbs and the other nutrients and if I was eating too many carbs… it would show up in X number and if I was eating too much protein it would show up in Y number.
Obviously, my love of saturated and trans-fats showed up in my cholesterol number.
My dr. didn’t refer me to her, and it was fine for me to call up and make an appt. She had lots of booklets on gestational diabetes, etc…. and I believe that if I had some condition besides boring old cholesterol… insurance would pay for it. But since, I’m basically healthy. I paid. It was $75 and the appointment was about 85 minutes. Personally, I really thought that it was money well spent and I got a lot out of the appointment… and both Sandy and I have cut back on our cheese! Such a deal!
I haven't plugged numbers into fitday for a while. I have done it since I've been tracking the Dash stuff.
Back when I did do fitday for a couple of weeks:
Monday - Thursday, I'm in the 17-22% fat range.
Friday - Sunday, I'm up in the 25-35%.
But it is also possible that logging on fitday made me more aware and it is very possible that the %'s are a little higher. AND I’m out of town about 2 months out of the year… if you count all days I’m away skiing and on vacation, etc. I’ve never put THOSE days into the computer. That’s 17% of the year… Those days would definitely drive up the percentages.
One thing that my dietician pointed out is that even low fat cheese has quite a bit of sat. fat and the RDA for it isn't very much... like 10 g.
I was eating cheese twice a day AND having cream in my coffee AND ice cream on the weekends AND cake on the weekends AND a burger out on the weekends AND a sausage for dinner once in a while AND on and on and on...
I was measuring everything and counting up the points and it was low fat cheese and I was losing weight well...
But looking at the big picture, she found a whole lot of places for me to cut saturated and trans fats.
So So Sorry for such a late homework. Busy day and I forgot!! Anyway, I thought I would call it Fat Free Friday. I just wonder how many of us are aware of the rough percentage of fat we consume each day. We are all aware, more and more, of portion sizes and balance. I have decided to just be more aware of how much of what I eat is fat. I love cheese sticks and I realized that I could mindlessly eat probably more than I should in a day, because they are low fat. Just an awareness check!
