Nutritionist Appointment Paperwork

I finally got all the paperwork completed for the nutritionist. It kept timing out on me, and I think I forgot a few food preferences/non-preferences to mention. They’ll probably tell me to eat fish all the time. Meat seems to be the craze, and the only thing “better” than that would be the omegas in fish, right? Glack.

I should be happy the questions seemed very holistic. One of the medical directors at my insurance company once called holistic health voodoo. Was that the word? Either that or witch-craft. Probably voodoo. It's supposed to be covered by my insurance, but if they decide not to pay, I won't go to more than one visit.

I digress. The more it asked, the more defensive I felt, like whoa, what are they gonna make me try to do? Not merely food, but sleep, exercise, screen-time. The beginning asked how ready one is to make changes: from not at all, to ready to make drastic changes. I started the questionnaire with the response that I’m ready to make small changes. By the end I revised it to I’m ready to think about changes.

Does all screen-time count if you’re doing an exercise video, or if you are watching tv, but doing mild exercises or stretching? Does take-n-bake count as eating out? Yeah, I know.

Say whatever you want, I am not going to lock my pets out of the bedroom even if they say it is unhygienic to allow them in. We have one with abandonment issues, and we’re lucky if we can keep them from going berserk. See, super defensive.

The biggest ego-crusher was exercise. I asked my husband his opinion on several questions to keep me marginally honest. His impression was that I don’t exercise regularly at all. Maybe not super regular exercise. I don’t do much on weekends because I hang out with him and he’s tired from his physical job. So maybe that doesn’t count as “regular” exercise? My fitbit and I thought I’ve been doing ok, still logging an average of 25+30 minutes a day (averaging out over the entire week). It goes nuts buzzing at me when I reach 150 minutes for the week, and sometimes I hit that by Wednesday. Whatever. Told you I’m too defensive. We’ll see what happens.